Twitter

Published
December 12, 2022

Musk’s Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council

Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the group that addresses hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.
Published
December 12, 2022

Twitter relaunching subscriber service after debacle

The company owned by billionaire Elon Musk has also started granting a new gold-colored check mark to businesses on the platform.
Published
December 11, 2022

Commentary: The Twitter experience is surprisingly hard to replicate

Concerned about a spike in hate speech and other troubling content, users of the social network have been leaving in droves. The question is: Where to?
Published
December 8, 2022

Two women sue Twitter alleging discriminatory layoffs

The lawsuit alleges that 57% of female employees were laid off, compared to less than half of men.
Published
December 8, 2022

Commentary: Twitter’s downward spiral is sad, but I’m not leaving just yet

Whether we like it or not, these decisions are deeply personal, and deeply political.
Published
December 6, 2022

Outgoing Twitter employees launch legal campaign over severance packages, work visas

Outgoing employees say the company has been inordinately slow to provide information about how the payout process will work, and confusion reigns about the ultimate package the company will give people.
Published
December 4, 2022

Elon Musk says Apple is ‘fully’ advertising on Twitter again

Musk blasted Apple last week, saying the maker of iPhones and Mac computers had mostly stopped advertising on Twitter and had threatened to withhold the site from its App Store.
Published
December 3, 2022

Surging Twitter antisemitism unites fringe, encourages violence, officials say

Entrepreneur and owner Elon Musk announced a broad amnesty for most previously banned accounts and has personally interacted with fringe activists and white nationalists on the site in the weeks since he assumed ownership..
Published
December 2, 2022

Twitter suspends rapper Ye again, this time over swastika post

The rapper now appears to have migrated to another right-wing platform, former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social, where an account under Ye’s name posted about Musk on Friday.
Published
November 29, 2022

Twitter ends enforcement of COVID misinformation policy

Public health officials say its termination could lead to more false claims about the virus or the efficacy of vaccines.