Elon Permits Advertisers to Un-F*ck Themselves
Elon Musk’s social media business X, formerly Twitter, took a turn for the worse in November 2023 when he told advertisers to “go f**k yourselves” on stage with the New…
Elon Musk Cancels Don Lemon’s Show on X After Being Asked About Drug Use
Elon Musk canceled Don Lemon’s new exclusive TV show on X before it even started, according to a statement from Lemon on Wednesday. The former CNN host says Elon Musk…
Zuckerberg Just Had the Most Humiliating Day of His Life, But His Hair Looked Great
In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg waltzed into the halls of Congress for the most high-profile moment of his career. He was pale and glass-eyed, his tie wrapped loosely around his neck,…
‘Senator, I’m Singaporean’: TikTok CEO Faces Off Against Tom Cotton
Wednesday’s hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee got a little spicy as senators took turns bashing the CEOs of the biggest social media platforms. While well-deserved for the…
Users Flock to Threads as X Suffers Largest Outage Since Musk Takeover
Photo: Chesnot (Getty Images) Over 90,000 users on X experienced an outage on Thursday morning, marking the platform’s most severe outage since Elon Musk’s takeover in October of 2022, according…
Elon Musk’s ‘Anti-Woke’ AI Is Here, Snowflakes Need Not Apply
Elon Musk’s snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok, started rolling out to X Premium Plus users on Thursday. X users who paid $16 a month, or $22 via the app, for a…
Elon ‘Back to the Office’ Musk Called in Remotely to First X All-Hands
There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground. A year after Musk officially took over…
One Year On: The 12 Worst Moments of Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Image: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) My oh my, what a year it’s been. After several months of back-and-forth between billionaire and tech tycoon Elon Musk and social media company Twitter,…
One Year Into Musk’s Takeover, X Is Flopping—Paris Hilton to the Rescue
There’s very little that’s surprising about Elon Musk’s flailing X anymore. Now, a year after he finally purchased the platform, the data is in and the outcome is to be…
TikTok Has a Misinformation Crisis on Its Hands. Or Does It?
Regulators in the EU sent letters to Meta, TikTok, and X/Twitter Thursday, giving the platforms 24 hours to address misinformation and other “illegal” content related to the Israel-Hamas war. It’s…