Early this month, Elon Musk introduced the $8/month blue checkmark subscription verification service. The service allows anyone who paid for a “blue check” to be verified. Calling it “Power to the people,” Musk said at the time of launch that “Twitter’s current lords […]
While we spent the last two to three years fighting the covid pandemic, misinformation was another pandemic we have to battle we have to fight as tech companies continue to develop new tools to stop the spread of misinformation on […]
As you may recall, just a few weeks before the US presidential election in 2020, David Barrett, founder and CEO of San Francisco tech company Expensify, emailed 10 million customers urging them to vote for Biden and stop Evil Trump. Unlike […]
As tech stocks crater, Apple appears to be weathering the storm better than the once-trillion-dollar rivals like Google’s Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook’s Meta. Over the past month, Apple stocks have held up during this bad market faring better than its […]
Just a few days after taking ownership of Twitter, Elon Musk has reached out to Twitter users soliciting ideas on how to make Twitter better. Two days ago, Jason Calacanis polled Twitter users about how much they would like to […]
Less than a week after billionaire Elon Musk completed the $44 billion acquisition, Twitter is planning to lay off 25% of its workforce of 7,500 employees in the first round of job cuts, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing a person familiar […]
Minutes after completing the $44 billion Twitter acquisition, Elon Musk began his Twitter ownership with the firings of four top Twitter executives. The first to be fired was former CEO Parag Agrawal. Musk also fired Ned Segal, the chief financial officer, Sean […]
Yesterday, Elon Musk posted a video of himself entering Twitter HQ with a bathroom sink and a message: “Let that sink in!” It now appears that it’s beginning to “sink in” for some Twitter employees. Just minutes after The Financial […]
As the saying goes, “When you find yourself in a hole, you better stop digging.” Sadly for Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, he’s doing quite the opposite. Late last year, Zuckerberg changed the corporate name from Facebook to Meta to reflect […]
The judgment day may be near for Twitter employees as Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a video of himself carrying a bathroom sink with the message, “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!” On Wednesday, Leslie Berland, Twitter’s Chief Marketing Officer […]
Just last week, we reported that Twitter employees could be in for bad news after reports that Elon Musk was planning to lay off nearly 75 percent of Twitter’s 7,500 workers. Now, it appears their worst fear has been confirmed. Musk would […]
Twitter employees may be in for really bad news and the biggest shock in the coming months. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is reportedly planning to lay off nearly 75 percent of Twitter’s 7,500 workers, according to a report from the Washington Post, […]
Just yesterday, billionaire rapper and fashion designer Kanye West agreed to buy the free-speech social media platform, Parler as part of the effort “to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.” It didn’t take long before Tesla […]
Over the weekend, PayPal updated its new acceptable use policy that would have permitted the payment giant to withdraw $2500 from the accounts of users who spread “misinformation.” The company later backtracked and reversed course, saying the notice went “out in error” and will […]
On October 7, a Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has until October 28 to complete his acquisition of Twitter if he wants to avoid a trial. In a new twist, Twitter is now refusing Elon Musk’s new $44 […]
PayPal is taking the fight against misinformation to the next level. PayPal has just updated its new acceptable use policy which will permit the payment giant to pull thousands of dollars from the accounts of users who spread “misinformation.” Effective November […]
Audio-streaming giant Spotify has acquired Kinzen, an Irish media tech startup founded by former RTÉ journalist Mark Little and Áine Kerr, a one-time political reporter with the Irish Independent. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal is the […]
All hell breaks loose this evening after Tesla CEO Elon Musk proposed a “Russia-Ukraine Peace” plan that angered the Ukrainian president, blue-check mark gatekeepers, journalists, government officials, and NAFO members. On Monday, Musk posted a tweet that offered the possibility of a peaceful […]
On November 29, 2021, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey stepped down from his role as chief executive officer of Twitter after 16 years with the company. Jack also confirmed in a tweet that he resigned from the company. “Not sure anyone has heard […]
Doug Ramsey, an executive and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of food company Beyond Meat, was arrested on two charges over the weekend after allegedly biting a man’s nose in a parking garage in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday night after a college […]
