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Elon Musk, madman that he is, is actually going to start charging to use the social network formerly known as Twitter.

Elon Musk Planning to Charge Users $1 to Tweet

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a letter to Elon Musk, an EU lawmaker accused X of allowing "illegal content and disinformation" about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Elon Musk Is in Big Trouble Over the Israel-Palestine Violence

By Victor Tangermann

X-formerly-Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's speaking tour is on pause for the foreseeable future following her disastrous Code interview.

Twitter CEO Says That Due to Reasons, She Has to Cancel Appearance Defending Elon Musk’s Deranged Behavior

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

X owner Elon Musk is confused about why users aren't enthusiastic about not being able to see headlines anymore.

Elon Musk Baffled About Why People Would Want to See Headline Before Clicking Article

By Frank Landymore

The same lawyer who took down Alex Jones of InfoWars is now suing Elon Musk for promoting an unfounded Internet rumor on X.

Lawyer Who Successfully Sued Alex Jones Says His Next Target Is Elon Musk

By Sharon Adarlo

An actor seems to have given a bizarre explanation for why he liked a bunch of bigoted posts: that AI had something to do with it.

Artificial Intelligence

Actor Blames AI for Liking Red-Pilled Social Media Posts

By Noor Al-Sibai

X-formerly-Twitter's new-ish CEO didn't have the X app on her iPhone home screen when she showed it to a crowd last week.

The CEO of X Doesn’t Have X on Her Home Screen

By Noor Al-Sibai

X-formerly-Twitter's newly anointed CEO Linda Yaccarino is now being tasked with picking up the pieces, following Elon Musk's acquisition.

Twitter CEO Trying to Figure Out What to Tell Banks That Funded Elon’s Disastrous Acquisition

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk wanted to livestream his visit to the US-Mexico border on Thursday, but his broadcast crashed just minutes in.

Elon Sends Pleading Email to All of Twitter Staff After Live Stream Flub

By Frank Landymore

Learning you're fired via tweet is one thing — but learning that you're about to take over as Twitter CEO from an Elon Musk post is another entirely.

Elon Musk Didn’t Bother Telling Twitter’s New CEO She Was Hired Before Announcing It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump Jr.'s account on X-formerly-Twitter was apparently hacked today, with the account tweeting that his father had died.

Don Jr’s Twitter Account Got Hacked, Posted That Trump Had Died

By Victor Tangermann

If killing X-formerly-Twitter was always Elon Musk's plan, he might soon be successful if he starts charging everyone to use it.

Elon Musk May Actually Kill Twitter For Real This Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Walter Isaacson's new biography, Elon Musk mass-fired Twitter employees who were caught saying mean things about him on Slack.

Free Speech Fundamentalist Elon Musk Mass Fired Staff for Saying Mean Things About Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk and a motley crew of people hastily moved more than 700 servers despite the objections of experts, leading to tech glitches at X.

Elon Musk Frantically Moved Twitter Servers Himself, Eventually Realized His Mistake

By Sharon Adarlo

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk is seemingly limiting access to The New York Times on his platform, and engagement is tanking.

Free Speech Lover Elon Musk Seems to Be Throttling Exposure to Sites He Doesn’t Like on Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is on a quest to prove that he is not anti-Semitic — and is threatening to sue a well-known Jewish advocacy groups to do so.

Elon Musk Says He Has to Sue Jewish Anti-Hate Group to Prove He’s Not Antisemitic

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man has been sentenced to death for tweets critical of his government — and self-professed free speech absolutist Elon Musk is silent.

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Has Nothing to Say About Man Sentenced to Death for Tweeting

By Noor Al-Sibai

X, formerly known as Twitter, is facing more than 2,200 arbitration cases and could be on the hook for more than $3.5 million in legal fees.

Elon Musk Refusing to Pay Severance to Fired Twitter Employees May Be Backfiring Spectacularly

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk's increasingly erratic behavior and decision-making may, according to people close with him, be due to alleged ketamine use.

Elon Musk Associates Say His Strange Behavior May Be Related to Ketamine Habit

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter owner Elon Musk has admitted what we all suspect: that under his leadership, the site may not thrive after all.

Elon Musk Admits Twitter May Be Failing Under His Leadership

By Noor Al-Sibai

An NYU professor is locked out of his Twitter social media account after criticizing Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

Professor Says Elon Musk Locked Him Out of His Twitter Account

By Sharon Adarlo

At least two advertisers have pulled out of advertising on X-formerly-Twitter, after their ads appeared next to ads that promoted fascism.

Brands Horrified When Their Twitter Ads Appear on Nazi Posts

By Victor Tangermann

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk is making it more difficult to access content via external links by literally slowing them down.

Twitter Now Throttling Traffic to Sites Elon Musk Doesn’t Like

By Victor Tangermann

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Elon Musk Will Pay Your Legal Bill If Your Tweets Got You Fired

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a test broadcast of the Twitter Live feature, Elon Musk decided to whip out his guns and spontaneously curl a dumbbell.

Elon Musk Lifts Weight During Office Meeting For Reasons Unknown

By Frank Landymore

Another stone left unbranded in Twitter's disastrous X rebrand: CEO Linda Yaccarino's former username, which was quickly snagged by a troll.

Trolls Immediately Steal Twitter CEO’s Handle After “X” Name Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

San Franciscans are already bidding adieu to the strobing "X" sign that sat atop the Twitter headquarters for three days.

Elon Forced to Remove Strobing “X” Sign From Twitter Building

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former Twitter product manager Esther Crawford has taken to the platform to air all her grievances about CEO Elon Musk and his mood swings.

Former Twitter Manager Describes Elon Musk’s Sudden Swings to Rage

By Victor Tangermann

Indonesia has announced that it blocked the domain "X.com," which reportedly used to host "negative" adult and gambling-related content.

Indonesia Blocks Twitter, Thinking the “X” Was a Porn Thing

By Victor Tangermann

After abruptly changing Twitter's name to "X," Elon Musk has also taken over the handle associated with the letter.

Elon Musk Seizes @X Account From Guy Who Owned It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta-formerly-Facebook has a trademark related to social media for the letter X, which means Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand could cost him.

It Turns Out Facebook Also Owns a Trademark to “X,” Specifically for Social Media

By Victor Tangermann

Cops were called to the Twitter headquarters because crews were trying to remove the Twitter sign without the required permits.

Cops Called as Twitter Tries to Change Sign to “X”

By Sharon Adarlo

There's another big problem with Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand: Microsoft owns the trademark to the title "X." In a word: lol.

Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After hastily announcing that Twitter would be rebranding as "X," the rollout has hit some major snags with "x.com" redirection issues.

X.com Is Telling People That It’s “Parked by GoDaddy”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter owner Elon Musk has officially changed Twitter's name with the letter "X" — a last-ditch effort to turn the ailing loss maker around.

Business Genius Elon Musk Says He’s Changing Twitter’s Name

By Victor Tangermann

Almost half a year after announcing Twitter would pay content creators, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has finally made good on his promise.

Twitter Now Paying Accused Sex Trafficker to Keep Posting

By Victor Tangermann

Furious Elon Musk Is Threatening to Sue Meta for Ripping Off Twitter

Furious Elon Musk Is Threatening to Sue Meta for Ripping Off Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg Tweets for First Time in 11 Years to Mock Elon Musk

Mark Zuckerberg Tweets for First Time in 11 Years to Mock Elon Musk

By Sharon Adarlo

Middle-aged tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are threatening to cage fight each other. And yes, it's all very stupid.

It’s On! Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Agree to Brutal Cage Fight

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In his latest bigoted tirade, Elon Musk insists that the term "cisgender" will now be considered a "slur" on Twitter.

Elon Musk Goes on Transphobic Rant, Says “Cisgender” Now a “Slur” on Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Following multiple defaults on rent and a failure to even respond to its landlord, it looks like Twitter's Colorado HQ is kaput.

Judge Tells Cops to Evict Twitter Office Over Unpaid Rent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's only day two of Pride Month, Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is already jumping headfirst into deeply transphobic wasters.

Elon Musk Celebrates Pride Month With Wildly Transphobic Outbursts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A warning to the wise: a new Twitter bug is apparently resurfacing and restoring deleted tweets and retweets. This website is broken.

New Twitter Bug Is So Embarrassing Our Heads Are Going to Explode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After the Turkish government asked Twitter to censor the opposition during the country's election, the Elon Musk-run social media complied.

Elon Musk Obediently Censors Twitter When Dictator Tells Him To

By Victor Tangermann

In the aftermath of the Allen, Texas mass shooting, Elon Musk is openly engaging with alt-right psyop conspiracies.

Elon Musk Confused Why You’d Think Someone Was a Nazi Simply Because of Their Swastika Tattoo

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter CEO Elon Musk declared yesterday that Twitter was preparing to purge inactive accounts from the platform.

Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Purge the Accounts of Dead People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the saying goes, the bill always comes due — and as it stands, it's unclear whether billionaire Elon Musk's Twitter can pay up.

Broke Boy Elon Musk Struggling to Pay Bills

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey isn't impressed with how current CEO Elon Musk is running the social media platform.

Jack Dorsey Sounds Alarmed by Elon Musk’s Erratic Behavior at Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

Legal experts say that Elon Musk's most recent Twitter verification fiasco might get the platform into new trouble with the FTC.

Twitter May Be in Deep Trouble Over That Blue Check Stunt

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter users are clamoring to get an invite to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's decentralized Twitter alternative Bluesky.

People Are Flocking to Jack Dorsey’s New Twitter Alternative

By Victor Tangermann

Over months, Twitter and police failed to intervene while a 13-year-old boy was being publicly groomed and eventually kidnapped.

Twitter Apparently Ignored Its Chance to Stop a Kidnapping

By Victor Tangermann

Rumor has it that Elon Musk has yet another burner account on Twitter. And no, we're not surprised. Just disappointed.

Elon Musk Apparently Has Another Alt Account, and It’s Even Weirder

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk may have accidentally leaked his alternate Twitter account — and it's really, really weird.

This Strongly Appears to Be Elon Musk’s Alt Account on Twitter Where He Roleplays as His Own Child

By Frank Landymore

After yoinking legacy verification checkmarks from Twitter accounts, CEO Elon Musk has brought back the checkmark to a number of dead celebrity profiles.

Elon Musk Forces Dead Celebrities to Become “Paying” Twitter Blue Subscribers

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Lost $13 Billion on 4/20

Elon Musk Lost $13 Billion on 4/20

By Victor Tangermann

In a quiet new rule change, Twitter has rolled back protections for trans users amid an international anti-trans movement on both sides of the pond.

Twitter Says It’s Okay to Harass Trans People Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

It looks like Elon Musk needs to put his — or the taxpayer's — money where his mouth is when it comes to "government-funded" enterprises.

It Turns Out SpaceX and Tesla Get Way More Government Money Than NPR

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is moving forward with introducing stock and crypto trading options on the app — and its denizens are calling bull.

Twitter Rips Into Elon Musk’s New Crypto “Ponzi Scheme”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is not one for granting regular interviews in any sense of the word — but when he does, he pulls no punches and is sure to stun.

Elon Musk Whines That Buying Twitter Has Been Emotionally “Painful”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has bought around 10,000 graphics cards and is hiring AI experts to build a ChatGPT competitor within Twitter, Insider reports.

Elon Musk Buys Ten Thousand GPUs for Secretive AI Project

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter Circles is broken. Very broken. So broken that, in a particularly terrible turn, some folks' secret nude photos appeared in random feeds. Not good.

Twitter Accidentally Made Users’ Secret Nudes Public

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter CEO Elon Musk just got absolutely roasted on Twitter — something that completely flew over his head.

Elon Musk Just Got Roasted to His Face and Seemed to Have No Idea

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has chosen to white out the "W" on the Twitter HQ sign in San Francisco — and his landlord, apparently, isn't exactly thrilled.

Twitter Landlord Unhappy With Elon’s Naughty Change to Company Sign

By Noor Al-Sibai

In one of the pettiest moves possible, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has blocked all links to the popular publishing platform Substack on Twitter.

Jealous Elon Musk Blocks All Links to Substack on Twitter

By Victor Tangermann