Technology

After reinstating Donald Trump’s Twitter account and making nice with a slew of far-right figures online, Elon Musk has done very little to position himself as any kind of centrist. But on Monday, during a company-wide meeting, the billionaire owner reportedly claimed that he’s enacting a “moderate-wing takeover of Twitter.” The subject came up shortly after Musk discussed whether he plans […]

Elon Musk seemingly either lost track of his own revised Twitter policies or thinks they don’t pertain to him. The billionaire on Monday posted literal fake news to his platform with what looked like a screencap of a CNN broadcast—but was really a photoshopped image—featuring anchor Don Lemon and a chyron that read, “Elon Musk could threaten […]

Shortly after tweeting an image of a swastika inside the Star of David and hours after going on a pro-Hitler tirade, Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, was suspended from Twitter Friday. Twitter CEO Elon Musk confirmed as much early Friday morning, less than a few weeks after Twitter reversed an October restriction on his account […]

I don’t say this lightly, but this tech is one of the most astonishing, and terrifying, technologies I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been writing about technology for almost two decades. Not only because of what it is capable of today, with its ability to output truly “creative” text (or at least text that appears creative), […]

In less than a year, Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter—and its sudden leniency toward right-wing hate and misinformation—has become one of the most pressing concerns for Democrats and progressives heading into the New Year. But despite stoking widespread outrage on a near-daily basis, Musk still hardly appears to be on the president’s radar. On Sunday, […]

A trio of bipartisan lawmakers have teamed up on legislation targeting TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media app whose powerful algorithm has raised concerns about data security and privacy. Senator Marco Rubio, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, introduced a bill Tuesday that would “block and prohibit all transactions” by TikTok and any other social media […]

In the head-spinning Elon Musk era of Twitter, edicts come and go, seemingly at the whim of the self-described chief twit. Just last month, Musk portrayed himself as a free speech martyr for not banning @ElonJet, a Twitter bot that used publicly available flight records to track the tech billionaire’s private plane. “My commitment to […]

On Thursday night, Elon Musk suspended the Twitter accounts of about a half dozen journalists, including several who cover him, and his company, for The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times. The sudden purge—what looks like blatant censorship of the press on Twitter, a purchase Musk purportedly made in the name of free speech—has rattled the media, […]

Throughout Elon Musk’s whirlwind Twitter ordeal, he has alluded to an apparent paranoia that he could be killed at any moment. In May, shortly after first agreeing to buy the company, he tweeted, “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya.” He doubled down on that suggestion this month, saying there was […]

Elon Musk has long drawn comparisons to Donald Trump, thanks to his: But on Tuesday, the second richest man in the world took the “Huh, they really seem to have a lot of similarities” chatter to its “No they are truly the same person give or take a few billion” conclusion when he appeared to […]