• Elon Musk: Elon Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company

    A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly Twitter, failed to plausibly allege that Bright Data Ltd violated its user agreement by allowing the scraping and evading X's own anti-scraping technology. Alsup said using scraping...

  • Elon Musk ordered to testify again in probe of Twitter takeover

    SAN FRANCISCO >> A federal court ordered on Tuesday that Elon Musk must testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.

  • No more ‘Twitter’? Elon Musk confirms latest step in X rebranding

    Users might still be calling it “Twitter,” but the company officially known as X has taken yet another step toward eradicating the T-word from its platform.

  • Judge: Elon Musk must testify in SEC Twitter probe

    A federal court on Tuesday issued an order for X owner Elon Musk to testify in a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into the billionaire’s acquisition of the social media site.

  • Elon Musk may be compelled to testify again in SEC's Twitter takeover probe

    A federal judge on Thursday indicated a willingness to compel Elon Musk to testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. Lawyers for the billionaire appeared in a San Francisco courtroom on Thursday to urge U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley to decide against the SEC, which is seeking to force Musk to testify as part of its probe into his 2022 purchase of social media giant Twitter. Another judge previously ruled...

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    Hulu doc examines Black Twitter’s influence before Elon Musk’s wreckage

    Hulu’s docuseries “Black Twitter: A People’s History” chronicles the rise of a subculture that transformed the social media platform. Black users were already disproportionately present in digital spaces in the early 2000s, but Twitter helped those users find each other, especially after the hashtag became a thing in 2007 during Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. Director Prentice Penny partnered with Jason Parham, senior writer at Wired, to document the history of Black people shaping...

  • Elon Musk's X/Twitter Wins Court Reprieve Against Australian Censorship of Church Stabbing Video

    Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter won a court reprieve on Monday in a fight against the Australian government's censorship of videos of a stabbing inside a Sydney church.

  • Prosecute Fauci? Yes, says Elon Musk

    by WorldTribune Staff, May 19, 2024 Contract With Our Readers In May 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci was pressed on by Sen. Rand Paul on whether the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had funded dangerous gain-of-function research at the Chinese lab where Covid is believed to have originated. Fauci responded: “The NIH has not ever and […]

  • Musk confirms Twitter has become X.com

    The social network formerly known as Twitter has fully migrated over to X.com, owner Elon Musk said on Friday. The billionaire head of Tesla, SpaceX and other companies bought Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and announced the rebrand to X last July. Although the logo and branding were

  • Musk Confirms Twitter Has Become X.com

    The social network formerly known as Twitter has fully migrated over to X.com, owner Elon Musk said on Friday.The billionaire head of Tesla, SpaceX and other companies bought Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and announced the rebrand to X last July.Although the logo and branding were changed to "X", the domain name remained Twitter.com until Friday."All core systems are now on X.com," Musk wrote on X, posting an image of a logo of a white X on a blue circle.Queries to Twitter.com redirected...

  • Elon Musk Says Starship Megarocket Launch In Weeks

    Elon Musk Says Starship Megarocket Launch In Weeks SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket, the world's largest and most powerful rocket, will probably have its fourth flight "in about two weeks," Elon Musk wrote on X. The objective is for Starship "to get through max reentry heating," Musk said, adding, "Worth noting that no one has ever succeeded in creating a fully reusable heat shield. Shuttle required >6 months of rework." Starship Flight 4 in about 2 weeks. Primary goal is getting...

  • Price, speed and Elon Musk: why some Australians are ditching the NBN

    While politicians argue over who to blame for a decline in Australia’s broadband uptake, customers are seeking more affordable ways to get onlineFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTens of thousands of Australians are abandoning the national broadband network for 5G mobile and other ways of accessing the internet with experts saying three main factors are driving people away: price, speed and Elon...