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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has laid out some bold, if still vague, plans for transforming Twitter into a place of “maximum fun” once he buys the social media platform for $44 billion and takes it private. But enacting what at the moment are little more than…

Some Twitter power users, including journalists and politicians, are apoplectic about Elon Musk’s planned takeover of the platform. But there are plenty of optimists, in tech and among the general public, who believe Musk could make Twitter better. Why it matters: With the deal expected to close later this year,…

Billionaire and maybe-Twitter buyer Elon Musk sure loves memes. Sometimes they make sense, sometimes they don’t (and usually he’s not the one making them.) Thursday’s viral meme certainly fell into the latter two categories. The argument being made here is a simple one: From 2008 to 2021, the political left moved…

He has scorned organised labour, mocked political correctness and espoused small government – so the deluge of tweets from conservatives congratulating Elon Musk on his move to buy Twitter was hardly a surprise. Yet smoking marijuana during interviews, courting the Hollywood set with movie cameos and musing about nuking Mars…

Elon Musk confirmed earlier this week that he plans to buy Twitter. And he may use proceeds from a stock sale involving one of his other companies to do it. The billionaire sold 9.6 million shares of Tesla this week, valued at $8.5 billion, which would most likely go toward his $44 billion…

Tesla’s chief executive officer offloaded more than 5 million shares on April 28, according to the new filings. Those followed disclosures late Thursday of sales totaling 4.4 million shares the two prior days.Musk has now sold about $25 billion worth of stock in the electric-car maker during the last six…

Hi, everyone. Plaintext is enacting a poison pill to prevent Elon Musk from taking over. But, like Twitter, $44 billion might change our minds. Read More

BlueSky, a project funded by Twitter to build a decentralized standard for social media, has stated that the company is not controlled by the company following Elon Musk’s purchase. BlueSky Operates Independent of Twitter In a tweet thread on April 25, BlueSky stated that although it was funded by Twitter,…

Wednesday, RedState brought you the story of the creepy-sounding “Disinformation Governance Board,’ and by Thursday, criticism of the Biden Administration’s plan was heating up. Rep. Jim Jordan blasted the idea Thursday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, while Elon Musk called the move “discomforting” on Twitter. Discomforting — Elon Musk…

Musk would have been appointed to Twitter's board on Saturday, but the world's richest man informed the company on the day that he would not, in fact, be taking the board seat. Andrew Burton | Getty Images News | Getty Images Twitter just reported earnings for the first quarter of…