Tag: Twitter

Musk Says Twitter Deal Should Go Ahead If It Provides Proof of Real Accounts

Elon Musk said that if Twitter Inc. could provide its method of sampling 100 accounts and how it confirmed that the accounts are real, his $44 billion deal to buy the company should proceed on its original terms. “However, if it turns out that their SEC filings are materially false, then it should not,” Musk…


Twitter Announces Security Flaw After 5.4 Million Accounts Reportedly Exposed

Twitter announced on Aug. 5 that it found a security flaw in its system that enabled a threat actor to learn about whether a phone number or an email address was associated with an existing Twitter account, after 5.4 million Twitter accounts were reportedly exposed by a threat actor. In a security advisory, Twitter said…


Elon Musk Accuses Twitter of Fraud: Countersuit

Elon Musk in a countersuit has accused Twitter executives of fraudulently presenting an undercount of fake users, known as bots. Twitter in July sued Musk for withdrawing from a $44 billion acquisition agreement, alleging he breached the agreement. In the counter-filing, entered under seal last month and obtained by The Epoch Times on Aug. 5,…


[Premiering 10:30 AM ET] Trump Lawyer Asks If Twitter Acted on Government Orders for Censorship

Twitter may be committing acts of government censorship under the banner of a private company. This is the basis of a Trump lawsuit against the platform, which will examine whether its act of de-platforming Donald Trump when he was president of the United States was done at the government’s request. According to Alex Kozinski, a…


[PREMIERING NOW] Trump Lawyer Asks If Twitter Acted on Government Orders for Censorship

Twitter may be committing acts of government censorship under the banner of a private company. This is the basis of a Trump lawsuit against the platform, which will examine whether its act of de-platforming Donald Trump when he was president of the United States was done at the government’s request. According to Alex Kozinski, a…


Trump Lawyer Asks If Twitter Acted on Government Orders for Censorship

Twitter may be committing acts of government censorship under the banner of a private company. This is the basis of a Trump lawsuit against the platform, which will examine whether its act of de-platforming Donald Trump when he was president of the United States was done at the government’s request. According to Alex Kozinski, a…


[Premiering 08/05, 10:30 AM ET] Trump Lawyer Asks If Twitter Acted on Government Orders for Censorship

Twitter may be committing acts of government censorship under the banner of a private company. This is the basis of a Trump lawsuit against the platform, which will examine whether its act of de-platforming Donald Trump when he was president of the United States was done at the government’s request. According to Alex Kozinski, a…


Besties: Twitter, Facebook, Google, CDC, NIH, WHO

Commentary Many of us with a libertarian frame of mind presume as a matter of theory that the interests of business are at odds with those of government. That’s generally true for businesses of a certain size. The regulations and taxes one faces in running an enterprise in the “land of free” are utterly shocking,…


The Censoring of The Epoch Times

Commentary There was great drama over the weekend when Twitter, without explanation then or now, suddenly started labeling all content from the domain of The Epoch Times as unsafe. The page to which the reader was referred was once reserved for sites that are malicious or spammy or otherwise represent a technological threat. Years ago,…


Elon Musk Says Twitter May Become an Accurate, Relevant News Source

Elon Musk said Twitter could become an accurate and relevant news source just like an “old-school version of The Economist” or Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” when it was hosted by Jon Stewart. A Twitter thread Sunday night raised speculation that Musk was preparing to take over the firm. The billionaire tech mogul, who said…