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Elon Musk suggested that his reasons for wanting to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci would be found in a future installment of the "Twitter Files." On Sunday, Musk caused an uproar after tweeting "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," with some cheering the Twitter CEO for speaking out against the infectious disease expert…

More than three years ago, this editor sat down with Sam Altman for a small event in San Francisco soon after he’d left his role as the president of Y Combinator to become CEO of the AI company he co-founded in 2015 with Elon Musk and others, OpenAI. At the…

Three Democratic lawmakers in the House are demanding answers from Elon Musk about a recent “platform manipulation campaign” related to recent protests in China. In a letter to the Twitter CEO, Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi, Adam Schiff and Jackie Speier write that they have “deep concern” about the recent spam campaign…

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Charlie Kirk hosted the author and critic James Lindsay on his show on Monday to discuss how the liberation of Twitter by Elon Musk could spell the end of the road for the elitist left. Kirk opened up the discussion by talking about how the "regime" will no longer be…

Topline Twitter's co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey urged Elon Musk to release "without filter" Twitter's internal communications about moderation decisions relating to a report about President Joe Biden's son Hunter—dubbed the “Twitter files”—days after the first set of files published by journalist Matt Taibbi failed to deliver any surprising…

Baker was involved in discussions about whether the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop could be banned under the platform’s “hacked materials” policy...Read More

Just days ago, Elon Musk took aim at Apple’s App Store policies while dragging it into the political and culture war crosshairs, highlighting how important the storefront is to so many developers and services. Today, Apple announced it’s changing long-standing App Store policies that put tight restrictions on what developers…

Rapper Kanye West on Sunday used his Instagram account to take aim at Elon Musk after his Twitter account was suspended again. "Am I the only one who thinks Elon could be half Chinese? Have you ever seen his pics as a child? Take a Chinese genius and mate them…

Published December 4, 2022 at 9:24 AM SAN FRANCISCO – Mr Elon Musk said Apple has “fully resumed” advertising on Twitter, further de-escalating a brewing war between two of the world’s most influential tech companies.  Mr Musk made the comments during a Twitter Spaces conversation on Saturday, adding that Apple…