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Laid-off Twitter workers await severance pay, Musk in for legal trouble

Twitter faces multiple suits over unpaid bills, including for private chartered plane flights, software services and rent at one of its San Francisco offices

US sought suspension of 250k Twitter accounts, including journalists': Musk

Twitter chief Elon Musk on Tuesday disclosed that US Government demanded the suspension of 250k Twitter accounts, including those belonging to journalists and Canadian officials, reported Fox News.He made the revelation while sharing the latest round of "Twitter Files," which were made public by the journalist Matt Taibbi.https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1610421293060599808?s=20 & t=e2Qs0cZEad2L7raSzXG28g"US govt agency demanded suspension of 250k accounts, including journalists & Canadian officials!" tweeted Musk.The new release of internal Twitter correspondence details the relationship between the social media company and government agencies.Taibbi revealed the US government's mounting and endless pressure on Twitter to work hand-in-hand with Congress to hunt for Russian meddling on the platform, reported Fox News.The Global Engagement Center -- described by Taibbi as "a fledgling analytic/intelligence arms of the State Department" -- went public by releasing a report .

Twitter says it will relax its 3-year-old ban on political advertising

Twitter says it will ease up on its 3-year-old ban on political advertising, the latest change by Elon Musk as he tries to pump up revenue after purchasing the social media platform last year. The company tweeted late Tuesday that we're relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US." We also plan to expand the political advertising we permit in the coming weeks," the company said from its Twitter Safety account. Twitter banned all political advertising in 2019, reacting to growing concern about misinformation spreading on social media. At the time, then-CEO Jack Dorsey said that while internet ads are powerful and effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions. The latest move appears to represent a break from that policy, which had banned ads by candidates, political parties, or elected or appointed government officials. Political advertising made up a sliver o

Twitter to ease 3-yr ban on political advertising in continued policy shift

Dorsey justified the ban, which attracted the ire of then-President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, by saying that "political message reach should be earned, not bought"

SpaceX valued at $137 billion in latest funding round, says TV report

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is raising $750 million in new fundraising, which values the company at $137 billion, CNBC reported

Sold record 1.3 mn vehicles last year, number short of target sales: Tesla

Tesla said on Monday that sold a record 1.3 million vehicles last year, but the number fell short of CEO Elon Musk's pledge to grow the company's sales by 50 per cent nearly every year. The 2022 figure topped the prior record of 936,000 vehicles delivered in 2021, but it was shy of the 1.4 million needed to reach the company's 50 per cent growth target. Sales grew 40 per cent year over year, while production climbed 47 per cent to 1.37 million. The shortfall came despite a major year-end sales push that included rare USD 7,500 discounts in the US on the Models Y and 3, the company's top-selling models. Tesla Inc., which is based in Austin, Texas, also had to deal with rising cases of the novel coronavirus in China, which cut into production at its Shanghai factory. With the extra US push, Tesla delivered more than 405,000 vehicles worldwide in the fourth quarter. But that missed Wall Street projections. Analysts polled by data provider FactSet expected 427,000 deliveries from Octo

Elon Musk's Tesla may unveil $25,000 Model 2 car in 2024: Report

Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle company Tesla is expected to unveil its $25,000 Model 2 car in 2024, the media reported

Tesla announces Model S, X launch in China, prices to be unveiled on Friday

Elon Musk-run Tesla has announced the upcoming launch of Model S and Model X in China, with pricing to be revealed on Friday and deliveries in the first half of this year

War in Ukraine to tech layoffs: A look at 10 events that defined 2022

2022 will be remembered for a plethora of things but these 10 events will perhaps be on top of the list

Tesla Megapack to achieve sustainable energy future for Earth, says Musk

Elon Musk on Saturday said Tesla Megapack (battery storage product) will make a huge difference to achieving a sustainable energy future for the planet.

Fidelity slashes its Twitter stake value by 56% as Musk face challenges

Top global investment firm Fidelity has slashed the value of its stake in Twitter by 56 per cent during the first month of Elon Musks ownership, as the micro-blogging platform navigates through issues

New Twitter will aim to optimise unregretted user minutes, says Elon Musk

Elon Musk on Friday said that the new Twitter under him will aim to optimise every minute that a user spends on the micro-blogging platform, and does not regret it

As outage hits thousands of users globally, Twitter says 'let's try again'

During the outage, some users were unable to log in to their Twitter account via desktops or laptops

Significant backend server changes behind Twitter outage, says Musk

As Twitter went down for several users globally including in India, Elon Musk on Thursday said the outage was because of backend changes to make the micro-blogging platform faster

'Prune your follows' tool lets users trim their Twitter follow list

Users can unfollow accounts accordingly that they think are not worth following anymore, also it lets users see all accounts they unfollowed through the app via a side menu

New Twitter policy to follow and question science, says Elon Musk

Talking to Social media, Elon Musk on Wednesday announced that the new Twitter Policy will not only follow science but also question science, reasonably."New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science," Musk tweeted.Musk stated, "Anyone who says that criticising them is doubting science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist," in a follow-up tweet to his initial policy statement.No further details of the plan are released as of yet.Since Elon Musk has taken charge of Twitter as its CEO, he has been under the spotlight for his social media presence.The Twitter CEO has finally spoken up about his promised resignation from his post after Monday's poll. Taking to the microblogging site, Elon Musk tweeted, "I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!"The multi-billionaire added that subsequently, he will only run 'the software & servers teams'.The post garnered a number of reactions from

Tesla touches a 2-year low: Twitter may not be Elon Musk's biggest trouble

Tesla share price: The prices fell rapidly on Tuesday after a Reuters report said that the company is planning to reduce its production at the Shanghai plant in January

IT rule tweaks, Musk's snap at Twitter, social media hits reset in 2022

Many spend a good part of their day on social media but what has become an integral part of one's lives went through future-altering twists and turns through the year. The world's town square Twitter was taken over by 'free-speech absolutist' Elon Musk, amended rules for digital platforms set the stage for grievance appellate panels and more accountability, work started on new norms for data protection, and employees got fired from what was once touted as dream jobs. Meta said it will cut 13 per cent of its global workforce, more than 11,000 employees, marking one of the biggest tech layoffs of the year as fabled companies wobbled under slowdown headwinds, soaring costs and a sluggish advertising market. While Musk continued to experiment with paid verifications, takedowns, lifting life bans and Twitter polls, social media users, in general, changed the way they posted online. Posting blurry photos on Instagram became a fad, and Gen Z happily traded picture perfection for unfiltered

Open to buying Substack to take on corporate media, says Elon Musk

Reacting to a user who asked him if it would make sense for Twitter to buy Substack and more tightly connect the two platforms, Musk replied: "I'm open to the idea"

Fixing relevance: Twitter restores suicide prevention after backlash

"We know they are useful and our intent was not to have them down permanently"