Category: Media & Big Tech

Elon Musk Says He Has Found a New CEO for Twitter

Elon Musk announced on Thursday that he had found someone to take over as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter. Musk will continue to own the social media company and will play a technical role in the platform, but someone else will lead the day-to-day management of the company. “Excited to announce that I’ve…


Trump Effect: CNN’s Primetime Ratings Skyrocket After Town Hall

Former President Donald Trump’s participation in a CNN town all on Wednesday night delivered a ratings boost for the beleaguered cable news channel’s ratings According to Mediaite, citing Nielsen data, CNN obtained 3.12 million total viewers for the 8 p.m. Trump special—far more than the network usually draws on a weeknight. Of that figure, some…


Fox News Exec Reveals One Reason Why Tucker Carlson May Have Left

A Fox News executive revealed what may have been a key reason for Tucker Carlson’s sudden departure last month: ad sales. In an interview this week with Variety magazine, Fox News Vice President for Advertising Sales Jeff Collins said that big-name corporate advertisers have returned to Fox News’ 8 p.m. ET timeslot after Carlson departed….


Elon Musk Invites Don Lemon to Create Show on Twitter

In the wake of Tucker Carlson’s viral announcement saying he’ll be bringing his top-rated show to Twitter, the social media’s CEO, Elon Musk, called on former CNN host Don Lemon to consider doing the same. Musk, an industrialist who purchased the social media platform last year, commented Wednesday on Lemon’s weeks-old cryptic Twitter statement in…


Musk Launches Twitter’s New Encrypted Messaging, but With Big Caveat: ‘Don’t Trust It Yet’

Elon Musk on Thursday announced the official launch of Twitter’s new encrypted direct messaging (DM) function, urging users to give it a try, but warning that the encryption feature in the early version should not be trusted. “Early version of encrypted direct messages just launched,” Musk stated in a Thursday tweet. “Try it, but don’t…


Paramount Media Networks Announces Layoffs as MTV News Shuts Down

MTV News will be shutting down as Paramount Media Networks announces layoffs, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks President Chris McCarthy announced on Tuesday. The layoffs come after months of internal deliberations about integration amid Showtime’s rebranding into Paramount+ With Showtime and will affect 25 percent of employees across the network media groups, with MTV News getting…


Elon Musk Responds to Tucker Carlson Rumors

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday responded to claims that he came to a deal with Tucker Carlson as the former Fox News host released a viral video saying he will be bringing his top-rated show to Twitter. Like any other user on the platform, according to Musk, Carlson will be subject to the same rules…


Musk Warns WhatsApp ‘Cannot Be Trusted,’ Says Twitter Will Soon Allow Voice Calls, Encrypted Messaging

Twitter will soon allow users to make video and voice calls and send encrypted messages, CEO Elon Musk has said. Musk took to the platform on May 9 to announce a string of new features that will be coming to Twitter soon. “With latest version of app [sic], you can DM [direct message] reply to any…


[Premiering Now] Asra Nomani on the ‘Unholy Alliance’ Between the Woke Left and the Islamist Right That Is Destabilizing America

“He came to visit a home that I was renting in Karachi, and he went off for an interview. And he never came back. The man whom he was supposed to interview had set a trap for Danny. It was actually a kidnapping scheme. And Danny was never to be seen again.” In 2002, Wall…


Asra Nomani on the ‘Unholy Alliance’ Between the Woke Left and the Islamist Right That Is Destabilizing America

“He came to visit a home that I was renting in Karachi, and he went off for an interview. And he never came back. The man whom he was supposed to interview had set a trap for Danny. It was actually a kidnapping scheme. And Danny was never to be seen again.” In 2002, Wall…