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November 7, 2022
Tori Otten
Elon Musk Posted a Nazi Picture, and Then Called for People to Vote for Republicans
The world's richest man and new Twitter CEO made his views clear.
November 7, 2022
Tori Otten
Elon Musk Has No Idea How To Manage Twitter and the Kathy Griffin Ban Is Proof
Musk keeps changing Twitter policies, with little notice to its users or its staff.
November 4, 2022
Prem Thakker
Twitter Is Descending Into Misinformation Chaos, Right Before the Midterm Elections
Twitter plans to unveil paid verified badges one day before the election.
November 4, 2022
Tori Otten
Of Course Elon Musk Is Being Sued for the Way He’s Mass Firing Twitter Employees
What did the "Chief Twit" think was going to happen?
November 3, 2022
Tori Otten
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Suddenly Having Problems With Twitter After Fighting Elon
The New York representative said she is having problems with her Twitter account after criticizing Musk's subscription plan idea.
November 3, 2022
Prem Thakker
Elon Musk’s New Plan for Twitter Is Going So Well He’s Now Firing Half of Its Employees
After floating a subscription plan, and as advertisers consider leaving Twitter, Musk is looking to fire 3,700 workers, according to a new report.
November 1, 2022
Prem Thakker
Elon Musk Is Already Threatening to Bankrupt Twitter
Advertisers have been fleeing the platform since Musk's purchase. He thinks a subscription plan will fix everything.
November 1, 2022
Tori Otten
Elon Musk Brings Election Denier Mark Finchem Back to Twitter
Finchem, who wants to oversee voting in Arizona, has a penchant for conspiracy theories.
October 28, 2022
Jason Linkins
Will Elon Musk Ruin Twitter? That’s the Wrong Question.
The Tesla mogul has taken up ownership of a company that may not have much of a future with or without him.
October 26, 2022
Brynn Tannehill
Why Elon Musk’s Idea of “Free Speech” Will Help Ruin America
Twitter without content moderation—and with Donald Trump and others reinvited—means that lies and disinformation will overwhelm the truth and the fascists will take over.
October 20, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Spectacular Failure of Right-Wing Social Media Platforms
From Kanye West (maybe?) buying Parler (but why?) to Donald Trump’s flailing (and scammy) Truth Social, the “free-speech” revolution is floundering.
October 10, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Right’s Cynical Embrace of Kanye West
Why Republicans are sticking with him, even after his antisemitic social media posts.
October 6, 2022
Alex Shephard
Twitter Will Be an Albatross Around Elon Musk’s Neck
It’s not clear whether the billionaire mogul wants the company to flourish financially or just become subservient to his whims—but it can’t do both.
October 4, 2022
Matt Ford
Big Tech’s Big Shield Goes to the High Court
The Supreme Court is going to get a crack at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—and the internet may never be the same.
July 15, 2022
Pablo Manríquez
“Dear White Staffers” Speaks: Inside the Effort to Unionize Capitol Hill
The staffer behind the social media account talks about the organizing drive, which will start to get real results next week.
July 14, 2022
Alex Shephard
Has Elon Musk Already Ruined Twitter?
The Tesla mogul proved his critics wrong—by coming up with a way to wreck the social media company that they never could have expected.
July 1, 2022
Julian Epp
The Increasingly Sad Tweets of Jeff Bezos
The billionaire union-buster’s quest to ape Elon Musk has been a cringey, slow-motion train wreck.
June 7, 2022
Timothy Noah
Bezos Was Wrong, and Biden Was Right: Taxing the Wealthy Will Help Tame Inflation
A new report in The Wall Street Journal unintentionally sheds light on what economists, including Lawrence Summers, have long known: Higher taxes reduce spending.
June 1, 2022
Matt Ford
Supreme Court Hands Social Media Giants a Win but Invites Conservatives to Try Their Luck Again
A shadow-docket decision spared Facebook and Twitter from a Texas law that would have prevented them from moderating their platforms.
May 9, 2022
MagazineAlex Shephard
Donald Trump’s Brazen Bid to Control MAGA Minds
TRUTH Social is supposed to compete with Twitter. So far, it’s been a mess. And Trump may go back to Twitter anyway. But it still could work out to be a killer grift.
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