X, formerly known as Twitter, has finally paid off the staff it sacked in its African headquarters more than a year after they were laid off, the agency which represents them has said. Most had only been in the job, based in Ghana’s capital, Accra, for a few months when the social media platform fired…
Elon Musk says he has moved the legal home of his rocket company SpaceX from the US state of Delaware to Texas. Two weeks ago, Mr Musk said electric carmaker Tesla’s shareholders will vote on making the same move. His brain-chip implant firm, Neuralink, has also relocated its legal home to Nevada. Last month, a…
Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, granted subscription perks to designated terrorist groups and others barred from operating in the US, according to campaigners. The Tech Transparency Project (TTP) found X had granted blue check marks to accounts tied to Hezbollah members, among others. For $8 (£6.40) a month, a tick allows longer posts and better…
Former Fox News host, Tucker Carlson, says he will “soon” interview Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. In a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, Carlson said he wanted to do the interview because “Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they are implicated in”. It would be Mr Putin’s…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to families who say their children had been harmed by social media, during a fiery hearing in the US Senate. Mr Zuckerberg – who runs Instagram and Facebook – turned to them and said “no one should go through” what they had. He and the bosses of TikTok, Snap,…
Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is suffering outages globally. According to Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports, more than 47,000 US users are facing access issues with X and X Pro. Some users in the UK and Asia are also unable to view posts on the site with a message that says…
The European Union has formally announced it suspects X, previously known as Twitter, of breaching its rules in areas including countering illegal content and disinformation. Digital commissioner Thierry Breton set out the alleged infringements in a post on the social media platform. He said X, which is owned by Elon Musk, was also suspected of…
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is set to have his account on X – formerly Twitter – reinstated by Elon Musk. Musk asked users to vote in a poll whether or not to lift a Jones ban pre-dating his ownership of the platform, signalling he would honour the result. Around 70% of roughly two million respondents…
Elon Musk has said Disney boss Bob Iger should be “fired immediately” after the company stopped advertising on X. “Walt Disney is turning in his grave over what Bob has done to his company,” Mr Musk said in a series of posts against the media giant. It comes just a week after he told companies…
Elon Musk’s profane attack on advertisers boycotting X, formally known as Twitter, has baffled experts. If advertisers keep leaving and don’t come back, can X survive? In April, I sat down with Musk for the first of his many chaotic interviews about his acquisition of X. He said something that, in hindsight, was rather revealing,…