Tag: Elon Musk

Twitter’s Website Working as Normal After Worldwide Outage

Twitter’s website version is working as usual again after it appeared to stop working for thousands of people across the globe on Dec. 28. Around 7:40 p.m. E.T., Twitter users were able to access the social media platform via apps on their mobiles or other devices, but many trying to log in via internet browsers were…


Elon Musk Announces New Twitter Policy to Follow and Question Science

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet Wednesday he is enacting a new Twitter Policy related to post on the platform about science. “New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,” Musk wrote. No further details of the plan had been released, but The Epoch Times…


Constitutional Law Professor Issues Warning After FBI Criticizes ‘Conspiracy Theorists’

Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley sounded the alarm over the FBI’s recent statement decrying “conspiracy theorists” and “disinformation” after recent installments of the “Twitter Files” revealed that agents were in constant communication with Twitter. A spokesperson for the FBI told Fox News, in response to several “Twitter Files” installments, said that “conspiracy theorists” are “feeding…


Stanford University Welcomes the Use of ‘American’ After Uproar Over ‘Harmful Language’ Guide

Standford University seems to have backpedaled on its controversial “harmful language” guide, acknowledging that it was wrong to have included the word “American.” The language guide, published in mid-December, is a Standford project officially known as the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative (EHLI). The guide places certain phrases and words into 10 “harmful language sections,…


Elon Musk Reveals Twitter Staff Had a ‘Fauci Fan Club’

Elon Musk said Twitter employees had an internal group on Slack that was a fan club for White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, with Musk hinting that this shows Twitter staff’s political leanings under prior management. Musk, who was strongly opposed to COVID-19 lockdowns that Fauci had backed, made the remark in a…


Twitter’s Ex-FBI Lawyer Queried Why Trump’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID’ Post Wasn’t Misinformation: Twitter Files

Former top-FBI lawyer James Baker sought to have an October 2020 tweet from then-President Donald Trump labeled as misinformation, according to the latest installment of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files.” Baker, who at the time was serving as Twitter’s deputy general counsel, targeted a tweet Trump wrote prior to his release from Walter Reed Medical…


Twitter’s Ex-FBI Lawyer Attempted to Have Trump’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID’ Post Labeled as Misinformation: Twitter Files

Former top-FBI lawyer James Baker appeared to have sought to have an October 2020 tweet from then-President Donald Trump labeled as misinformation, according to the latest installment of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files.” Baker, who at the time was serving as Twitter’s deputy general counsel, targeted a tweet Trump wrote prior to his release from…


Twitter’s Ex-FBI Lawyer Raised Misinformation Query on Trump’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID’ Post: Twitter Files

Former top-FBI lawyer James Baker raised a query on an October 2020 tweet from then-President Donald Trump, seeking to know why it wasn’t misinformation, according to the latest installment of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files.” Baker, who at the time was serving as Twitter’s deputy general counsel, targeted a tweet Trump wrote prior to his…


Elon Musk Says Around 100 Starlinks Now Active in Iran

SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm’s satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he posted on Twitter that he would activate the service there amid protests around the Islamic country. Musk said, “approaching 100 starlinks active in Iran”, in…


To Tweet or Not to Tweet—That Is the Question

Commentary No, I’m not going to do yet another parody of Hamlet’s famous soliloquy. Since there have been so many, I would have to do an especially good one, and I don’t have anywhere near the confidence to think that I can. I’m just referencing it as a way to introduce a problem that’s troubling…