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San Francisco, USA | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was reinstated on Saturday following the permanent ban in January 2021. New Twitter owner Elon Musk posted a one-day poll asking if Trump should be allowed back on the platform on Friday. Over 15 million people voted, with 51.8 …

What will happen if anyone can buy this status symbol or ID badge? COMMENT | TIMOTHY GRAHAM | Following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on October 27, the world’s richest man proposed a range of controversial changes to the platform. With mounting evidence that he is making it up as …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, saying “ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter”. The letter followed reports of Twitter’s massive layoff of staff on …

Research shows content rules on Twitter help preserve free speech from bots and other manipulation | FILIPPO MENCZER | Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27, 2022 has triggered renewed debate about what it means for the future of the social media platform, which plays an important role in …

San Francisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Elon Musk completed his deal to buy Twitter at 44 billion U.S. dollars Thursday, gaining control of the social network company, CNN reported, citing sources familiar with the deal. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and finance chief Ned Segal have left the company’s San Francisco …

San Fransisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Tesla CEO Elon Musk has proposed to proceed with a deal to buy Twitter at the original price of 44 billion U.S. dollars, according to a financial filing on Tuesday. The offer came ahead of a trial scheduled at the Delaware Chancery Court on Oct. …

San Fransisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Tesla CEO Elon Musk decided on Friday to terminate his 44 billion U.S. dollars deal to buy Twitter, blaming the company for withholding information on its number of spam and fake accounts. Musk’s lawyer claimed that Twitter failed to comply with its obligations in the …

If platform becomes too toxic, advertisers might leave altogether, jeopardising the its revenue COMMENT | ZACH MEYERS | With Elon Musk buying of Twitter for $44 billion, commentators are scrambling to understand what the “free speech absolutism” espoused by the world’s richest person will mean for the platform. But the …

  | THE INDEPENDENT | Elon Musk recently completed the purchase of 9.2% of Twitter’s stock and became the social media company’s largest shareholder. He was also offered a seat on the company’s board, which he declined. On one level, Musk’s investment seemed to make a lot of sense: Musk …

San Francisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Twitter, Inc. on Friday announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously adopted a limited duration shareholder rights plan following an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire Twitter by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The Rights Plan, often called the “poison pill”, will reduce the likelihood that …