Tag: Elon Musk

Elon Musk Takes Aim at DNC’s ‘Backroom Dealing’ as Committee Remains Silent on Primary Debates

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has accused the Democratic National Committee (DNC) of doing “far too much backroom dealing” amid reports that it won’t be holding any Democratic Party primary debates this year after President Joe Biden announced he is running for re-election. Musk’s comment came in response to an April 25 post on Twitter by the “Young Turks” host…


Twitter Drops ‘Government-Funded’ Label on News Organizations’ Profiles

Twitter stopped using the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels for news organizations, their profiles showed on Friday. Twitter dropped the “Government-funded Media” label from the accounts of U.S.-based National Public Radio (NPR), British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It also dropped the “China state-affiliated media” tag on the accounts of Xinhua…


Elon Musk Is ‘Personally’ Paying Twitter Blue for Some Users

Elon Musk said he’s personally paying the legacy blue checkmarks for a few celebrities who previously complained about buying the premium service championed by the new Twitter owner. On April 20, Musk kept true to his longtime promise, and celebrities, and many others who’d been verified for free but declined to sign up for Twitter’s Blue…


Elon Musk on Economy: ‘Stormy Weather’ for Next 12 Months

Tesla CEO Elon Musk expects the U.S. economy to endure a period of “stormy weather” over the next year amid a blend of higher interest rates, tighter lending conditions, and layoff fears. The latest earnings reports in the first-quarter earnings season and the Federal Reserve’s “Beige Book,” a monthly report of business survey responses, might support his…


400-Foot Tall SpaceX Rocket Explodes Over Texas

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its first Starship rocket on Thursday morning, but it exploded during a mid-flight failure over the Gulf of Mexico near Texas. “As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation,” the private space exploration company wrote on Twitter. “Teams will continue to…


400-Foot Tall SpaceX Rocket Explodes Over Gulf of Mexico

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its first Starship rocket on Thursday morning, but it exploded during a mid-flight failure over the Gulf of Mexico near Texas. “As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation,” the private space exploration company wrote on Twitter. “Teams will continue to…


Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Microsoft Over Alleged ‘Illegal Use’ of Twitter Data

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft after accusing the tech giant of illegally using the social media platform’s data for training. “They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time,” Musk wrote on Twitter on April 19, without providing further details regarding the allegations. His tweet came shortly after Microsoft announced it is…


Twitter Strips ‘Misgendering’ and ‘Deadnaming’ From Hateful Conduct Policy

Twitter has modified its “hateful conduct” guidelines, removing a policy that designated the targeted “misgendering” or “deadnaming” of transgender individuals as violent speech. In 2018, the platform enacted a policy that labeled it a form of harassment when Twitter users refer to a transgender person by their biological sex or name—something known as misgendering and…


Assessing Mechanism, Risks of Semaglutide, the Weight Loss Drug Credited by Elon Musk

Ozempic and Wegovy, launched by the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, have received much praise on social media outlets as “magic weight loss drugs” by some people who are keen to lose weight. They both contain semaglutide as the main ingredient. Tesla CEO Elon Musk once said on Twitter that in addition to paying attention…


Elon Musk Says No ‘Magic Cure’ for Inflation, Blames Fed’s Money Printing

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said there’s no silver bullet to fix the problem of high inflation, blaming central banks for printing too much money that’s chasing too few goods and pushing up prices. Musk made the remarks in an April 18 interview with Tucker Carlson, who asked the billionaire tech mogul for his thoughts about…