A majority of Twitter shareholders on Tuesday voted in favor of accepting Musk’s April offer of $54.20 per share amid whistleblower testimony alleging the platform isn’t secure and is a privacy risk. The shareholder meeting lasted about 7 minutes, and the vote lasted only 3 minutes. A vote count read during a live stream of the…
Twitter Shareholders Vote in Favor of $44 Billion Elon Musk Purchase
Twitter Was Notified at Least 1 Chinese Spy Was on Company’s Payroll, Whistleblower Testifies
September 13, 2022
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The former head of security at Twitter was told earlier this year by the U.S. government that there was at least one agent of China’s top intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), working as an employee at the company. This was one of the revelations made by Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a whistleblower who served…
Elon Musk Calls Out Instagram as ‘Envy Amplifier’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took aim at a major social media platform again, on Sept. 12, using Twitter to call out rival platform Instagram as an “envy amplifier,” echoing both his own previous remarks and the criticisms of other whistleblowers who have singled out Instagram as a uniquely toxic platform. Musk directed his remarks in…
Social Media Firms to Testify at Senate Homeland Security Hearing
WASHINGTON—The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on Sept. 14 with Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s YouTube, Twitter, and short video app TikTok on social media’s impact on homeland security. The panel led by Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) will also hear from a panel of former executives including from Twitter…
Elon Musk Can Amend Twitter Countersuit to Add Whistleblower Claims: Judge
Tesla CEO Elon Musk can amend his countersuit against Twitter to add claims from a whistleblower, a Delaware judge ruled on Sept. 7 Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick said that the bar under state law for granting leave to amend is low and the court “rarely declines amendments.” McCormick rejected arguments from Twitter that the amendment would…
White House Press Secretary Defends Stolen Election Claims
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Sept. 6 defended claiming in the past that the 2016 election was stolen. “Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election …..welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump,” Jean-Pierre wrote on Twitter on Dec. 17, 2016, after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton. “Reminder: Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians…
Twitter Asks Judge to Order Elon Musk to Turn in Texts Sent Between January and July
Not long ago, Elon Musk complained that Twitter is asking him to share documents from anyone who has had even a passing conversation with him. It now appears that the Twitter Inc. has made it official and has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to help obtain those texts. Twitter has requested Judge Kathaleen McCormick to order…
Twitter’s Edit Button Feature Could Add $150 Million to Company’s Revenue, Says Munster
Twitter Inc.’s plan to roll out an edit feature initially to Twitter Blue subscribers in the coming weeks has caught the attention of noted analyst and Loup Ventures Managing Partner Gene Munster. What Happened To use the edit feature, at least in the near term, a user may have to have a Twitter Blue subscription, which currently costs about $4.99…
Twitter Will Roll out Long-Awaited Edit Button to Paid Subscribers
September 2, 2022
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Twitter Inc. will launch a widely requested edit button for its paid subscribers in the coming weeks, the social media company said Thursday. For years, Twitter users have demanded the ability to edit their tweets after publishing in order to fix errors like typos. Those requests have led to jokes online that Twitter would rather…
LIVE 5 PM ET: 4th Grade Reading and Math Scores Plunge; Calif. Energy Grid Problems Slow EV Growth | NTD Business
Student achievement declines: fourth-grade reading and math scores had the biggest drop in decades during the pandemic. What could it mean for the U.S. economy? California telling residents not to charge their electric cars, as the state’s power grids come under pressure amid a heatwave. The U.S. bans certain cutting-edge microchips from being sold to China. It’s…
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