Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, has resigned from the social media company nearly a year after she joined in June 2022. Irwin confirmed her departure to Reuters but did not provide a reason for the move. The former Amazon director joined Twitter last summer just a few months before Musk acquired the platform for $43 billion; taking […]
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has regained the title of “World’s Richest Person,” according to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking. Musk—whose portfolio includes electric car company Tesla, private space company SpaceX, and the Twitter social media platform—has been in and out of the No. 1 spot on the Bloomberg index in recent years. Musk’s leading […]
Senior European Union officials were furious over the weekend after Twitter owner Elon Musk pulled the social media platform out of the bloc’s “Code of Practice,” which critics say is tantamount to a censorship regime. The EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, wrote that Twitter left the bloc’s Code of Practice, after reports claimed the platform […]
A senior Twitter engineer resigned on Thursday following glitches that marred the highly anticipated Twitter Spaces event in which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his presidential bid. Foad Dabiri, whose LinkedIn profile says he is Twitter’s engineering lead for growth, announced his resignation but did not mention what prompted the move. In his resignation statement, […]
Is Twitter, as a platform, moving to the right? Fox News used to be the heart of conservative media and where Conservatives broke news. Andrew Selepak, a social media professor at the University of Florida said he doesn’t believe that Twitter is “making some sudden move to the right. It’s just that there’s now an […]
Jenna Ellis, a Constitutional Attorney and former Senior Adviser & Counsel to President Donald Trump, recently discussed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s presidential announcement in an interview with NTD. During the conversation, she shared insights on the specific audience he may be targeting, assessed his chances of success, and offered her observations on the progress of […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis explained why he chose Twitter as the platform for the announcement of his presidential candidacy, saying that his approach to dealing with COVID-19 led him to make decisions based on data rather than following the crowd. His decision to use the tech platform, however, was not without hiccups. The Twitter Spaces […]
As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was formally announcing his candidacy for president on Twitter on May 24, his top Republican rival for the job shared his own message to voters via social media: “There’s only one Donald Trump.” In two campaign ads shared to Trump’s Truth Social account, DeSantis is depicted as an ungrateful “Trump […]
SAN FRANCISCO—Twitter might not keep its headquarters in San Francisco forever, its owner Elon Musk signaled Tuesday. Speaking virtually at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit in London, Musk gave a noncommittal answer to an interviewer’s question about whether the company will stay in the California city. San Francisco officials announced last week they […]
Elon Musk has objected to an article by The Associated Press alleging that “false claims of a stolen election thrive unchecked on Twitter” even though Musk promised that tweets making such claims would be “corrected,” with the Twitter chief calling on the media outlet to back up its assertion with data or retract the piece. […]
