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*(CNN) — Sunday officially marks one month since the world’s richest man took the helm at Twitter. In that time, Elon Musk initiated mass layoffs and gave remaining staffers a cryptic ultimatum, reinstated the accounts of controversial figures including former President Donald Trump, and launched — then punted — a plan to charge for Twitter’s […]

Elon Musk book cover pic (Simon & Schuster) *(CNN) — In a new Elon Musk biography, we learn that he secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet. The news comes from […]

*New York (CNN) — Don Lemon said Wednesday that his partnership with Elon Musk went down in flames, hours after the former CNN anchor conducted an interview last week with the erratic billionaire for the debut episode of his new independent web-based show. “Elon publicly encouraged me to join X with a new show, saying […]

Elon Musk (Brendan Smialowski-AFP-Getty Images) *New York (CNN) — Elon Musk has publicly endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory popular among White supremacists: that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites.” That kind of overt thumbs up to an antisemitic post shocked even some of Musk’s critics, who have long called him out for using racist […]

*Don Lemon continues to target Elon Musk after his partnership with the tech mogul was abruptly terminated last week. Lemon’s new web-based show was dropped from the X social media platform hours after he interviewed Musk for the debut episode. During the conversation, Musk appeared annoyed when pressed about hate speech on X (formally Twitter), […]

*(CNN) — A Twitter poll created by Elon Musk asking whether he should “step down as head of Twitter” ended early Monday morning with most respondents voting in the affirmative. Musk had said he would abide by the results of the unscientific poll, which began Sunday evening and concluded with 57.5% voting yes, 42.5% voting […]

[…] *(CNN) — Twitter on Thursday evening banned the accounts of several high-profile journalists from top news organizations without explanation, apparently marking a significant attempt by new owner Elon Musk to wield his unilateral authority over the platform. The accounts belonging to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell […]

*(CNN) — Elon Musk on Friday named longtime media executive Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter, months after he promised to step back from the role. “I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk wrote in a tweet on Friday. He said she “will focus primarily on […]

Elon Musk / Getty *Elon Musk’s transgender daughter no longer wants to be related to the billionaire tech mogul and has officially dropped his last name.  Legal documents were filed in L.A. County by Xavier Musk who sought to change the name to Vivian Jenna Wilson. Vivian turned 18 earlier this year and immediately […]

Donald Trump & Elon Musk / Getty *(CNN) — Former US President Donald Trump‘s Twitter account has been reinstated on the platform. The account, which Twitter banned following the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, was restored after Twitter CEO and new owner Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter on Friday night asking […]

Grimes and Elon Musk attend “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & the Catholic Imagination”, the 2018 Costume Institute Benefit at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018, in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images) *Elon Musk is facing a lawsuit filed by singer Grimes who shares three children with the tech mogul.  Grimes, whose […]

In this photo illustration, the image of Elon Musk is displayed on a computer screen and the logo of Twitter on a mobile phone in Ankara, Turkiye on October 06, 2022. (Muhammed Selim Korkutata / Anadolu Agency / Getty) *Civil rights leaders met with Elon Musk to express concerns about the hate speech popping up […]

*(CNN) — Elon Musk joined Dave Chappelle on stage Sunday in San Francisco, home of Twitter’s headquarters where the world’s richest person recently laid off many of its employees. It went about as well as you’d expect. The crowd at the Chase Center loudly booed Musk, who had spent much of the weekend wading into […]

*New York (CNN) — In a radical rebranding, Twitter owner Elon Musk has replaced Twitter’s iconic bird logo with X. Musk made the shock announcement of his plans early Sunday. By Monday morning US time, he tweeted that X.com now points to Twitter.com. “Interim X logo goes live later today,” he wrote, shortly before sharing […]

Tesla logo (David Zalubowski-AP) *New York (CNN) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a new social media target: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Following Musk’s recent critical posts about DEI policies and racial discrimination lawsuits against Tesla, the electric car company has omitted all language regarding minority workers and outreach to minority communities in its 10-K […]