Social Media

Carlson Lies That Musk Restored His Twitter Account

Mediaite reports: The host was censored on the platform last month after he called Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine – a transgender woman – a man. Carlson’s account was locked, and would remain that way until he deleted the tweet. Fox News made it clear that Carlson would do no such thing. The host announced he was back on …

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Reuters: Elon Musk Just Bought A “Chinese Headache”

Reuters reports: Twitter’s servers, staff and customers are almost entirely out of President Xi Jinping’s reach. But Tesla produces half of its automobiles in Shanghai, where it enjoys tax breaks, and depends on local suppliers for critical components. It seems likely that Twitter, under its new owner, will relax bans on political speech. Former President Donald Trump may get his …

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Fox: Trump Won’t Be Able To Resist Twitter Return

For once, the world agrees with Fox hosts: Cohosts of The Five reacted giddily to the news that Elon Musk will purchase Twitter for $44 billion on Monday, hailing it as a victory for free speech. The consensus around the table was that Musk will allow Donald Trump to return to Twitter and that the former president will oblige, despite …

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BREAKING: Elon Musk Buys Twitter In $44 Billion Deal

Business Insider reports:  Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company, it announced Monday — a dramatic coup for the billionaire as he seeks to unlock the social network’s “extraordinary potential.” Musk will pay $54.20 per share for Twitter, matching his original offer, totaling $44 billion. The two parties met Sunday after Twitter executives opted to re-examine Musk’s original …

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NYT: Twitter Close To Reaching Buyout Deal With Musk

The New York Times reports: Twitter is nearing a deal to sell itself to Elon Musk, two people with knowledge of the situation said, a move that would unite the world’s richest man with the influential social networking service. Twitter’s board was negotiating with Mr. Musk into the early hours of Monday over his unsolicited bid to buy the company, …

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WSJ: Twitter Reconsidering Elon Musk’s Buyout Offer

CNBC reports: Twitter could be becoming more receptive to a takeover bid from Elon Musk after the billionaire disclosed he has secured $46.5 billion in financing, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The social media company had been expected to shoot down the offer and had adopted a so-called poison pill to fend off a potential hostile takeover. But executives …

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FAA: YouTuber Crashed His Own Plane For The Views

The New York Times reports: The Federal Aviation Administration has found that Trevor Jacob, a daredevil YouTuber who posted a video of himself last year parachuting out of a plane that he claimed had malfunctioned, purposely abandoned the aircraft and allowed it to crash into the Los Padres National Forest in Southern California. In a letter to Mr. Jacob on …

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Jordan Threatens Twitter Over Musk Buyout Attempt

CNBC reports: A group of 18 House Republicans is asking Twitter’s board to preserve all records related to Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company, setting up a potential congressional probe should the party win back the majority this fall. In letters shared exclusively with CNBC, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee asked Twitter Board Chairman Bret Taylor and other …

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SEC Filing: Musk Has Funding For Twitter Takeover

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk has secured commitments totaling about $46.5 billion for a possible takeover of Twitter, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. There is still no assurance the deal will go through, though the filing firms up Musk’s earlier $43 billion proposal and the possibility that he could pursue a hostile takeover …

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Elon Musk Moves To Secure Funding To Buy Twitter

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk is racing to secure funding for his $43 billion bid to buy Twitter. Morgan Stanley, the investment bank working with Mr. Musk on the potential deal, has been calling banks and other potential investors to shore up financing for the offer, four people with knowledge of the situation said. Mr. Musk is first …

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Adams Calls For Crackdown On Violent Speech Online

The Hill reports: New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Sunday said that social media companies “must step up” to identify users that talk about violence online, adding that there is “a corporate responsibility when we are watching hate brew online.” During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Adams, alongside NYPD Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, discussed accused Brooklyn subway …

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Trump’s Truth Social Faked Its Infamous Wait List

Stand by for Devin Nunes to sue over this: Searching “truth social waitlist” on Twitter finds many people lamenting they had waited for a month or more and their waitlist numbers were not changing. Needless to say, that’s not how a waitlist should work; as new users were added, people should have steadily moved up in the list, not stayed …

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Fox Host: Trump Shouldn’t Be Allowed Back On Twitter

“The only thing I would tell Elon, if you care about the country, is I actually don’t think Trump should get back on. The reason I am saying that is because with him off we are paying attention to real substance now. “Instead of them pretending the news cycle should be about which Saturday Night Live actor he didn’t like …

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Twitter Adopts Poison Pill To Block Musk Takeover

CNBC reports: Twitter adopted a limited duration shareholder rights plan, often called a “poison pill,” a day after billionaire Elon Musk offered to buy the company for $43 billion, the company announced Friday. The board voted unanimously to adopt the plan. Under the new structure, if any person or group acquires beneficial ownership of at least 15% of Twitter’s outstanding …

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Mark Cuban Accuses Musk Of Pump-And-Dump Ploy

Mediaite reports: Mark Cuban said Tesla CEO Elon Musk offering to buy Twitter is a way of “fucking with” the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cuban tweeted on Thursday he thinks that Musk is messing with the SEC by purchasing a huge stake in Twitter and hyping a faux takeover in an effort to goose the stock price before selling. Cuban …

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Twitter Mulls “Poison Pill” To Block Takeover by Musk

Deadline reports: Twitter is said to be weighing a poison pill to prevent Elon Musk from increasing his stake in the company significantly, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the situation. The defensive strategy, also called a shareholders rights plan, make hostile takeovers more expensive and complicated for a buyer. They allow existing shareholders the right …

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Gab Offers To Sell Musk Board Seat And Equity For $2B

From far-right Gab CEO Andrew Torba: There is the problem of Twitter’s community itself. It skews massively left and thus anti-free speech. If you allow free speech on Twitter again, those people are absolutely going to leave because their fragile worldview can’t handle the reality that free speech brings. Another problem Twitter has that we don’t: total dependency on ad …

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Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter In All-Cash Deal

The Associated Press reports: Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter, just days after the Tesla CEO said he would no longer be joining the social media company’s board of directors. Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that Musk provided a letter to the company on Wednesday that contained a proposal to buy the remaining shares of …

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Investors Sue Musk Over Twitter Buy Disclosure Timing

CNBC reports: A group of Twitter shareholders are suing Elon Musk for allegedly failing to disclose he had bought a significant stake in the social media company in the right timeframe. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO revealed on April 4 that he had amassed a 9.2% stake in Twitter, leading shares to soar as investors viewed the move as a …

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USC Sues Two YouTubers Over Terrorism “Pranks”

The Associated Press reports: The University of Southern California is suing two YouTube performers who the school says created panic after barging into classrooms to film prank videos for their channels. Court documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times claim the pair caused “terror and disruption” during three “classroom takeover incidents” in the university’s Mark Taper Hall of Humanities. The …

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