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Musk Offers Reward for Proof of Emerald Mine

He mentioned father's share in mine in 2014 interview

(Newser) - Elon Musk is offering a reward of 1 million Dogecoin—the equivalent of almost $90,000—to anybody who can prove that he owned an emerald mine. He made the offer in response to a tweet from the DogeDesigner account, which has posted dozens of pro-Musk tweets in recent days,...

NPR Is First Major US News Outlet to Dump Twitter
Another Name Joins
NPR in Fleeing Twitter
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Apr 13, 2023 1:18 PM CDT

Another Name Joins NPR in Fleeing Twitter

PBS has stopped tweeting since it was labeled 'government-funded media' on Saturday

(Newser) - PBS has joined NPR in getting the heck away from Twitter. Like NPR, the Public Broadcasting Service was recently labeled by the social platform as "government-funded media," meaning Twitter would not amplify its tweets. The label was initially "state-affiliated media," a phrase applied to propaganda outlets...

Elon Musk's Surprise BBC Interview Gets a Little Weird

He swung from the serious to the bizarre

(Newser) - Elon Musk sat down for a surprise interview with the BBC on Tuesday night, during which he addressed a wide range of topics related to Twitter. He swung from the serious to the bizarre:
  • The pain: Musk acknowledged that he went through with his purchase of Twitter only because a
...

Twitter's Ex-CEO, Ex-CFO, and Ex-CLO Sue

They say their legal fees must be reimbursed

(Newser) - Twitter's ex-CEO, fired as well as ousted from the board of directors by Elon Musk after Musk's takeover of the social media company, is now suing his former company. Parag Agrawal and two of his fellow, also-fired-by-Musk ex-executives—former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde and former chief financial...

Goodbye, Twitter Inc. Hello, X Corp.
Goodbye, Twitter Inc.
Hello, X Corp.
Apr 11, 2023 10:20 AM CDT

Goodbye, Twitter Inc. Hello, X Corp.

Parent company of social media platform has been absorbed by new Elon Musk firm, per court filing

(Newser) - Twitter the social media platform is still up and running ( last we checked , anyway), but Twitter Inc. the parent company is no more. That's per a court filing from last week that indicates the company has been absorbed into Elon Musk's X Corp., with the news pointed...

Elon Musk: Landlord Doesn't Like New Sign at Twitter HQ

CEO covered up 'w,' apparently got flak for it

(Newser) - Last week, photos started to emerge showing the sign outside Twitter's San Francisco headquarters with an odd alteration: The "w" in "Twitter" looked like it was covered up with a small tarp, so that the company name read instead as "Titter." Now, CEO Elon Musk...

Matt Taibbi Picks Substack Over Twitter

Journalist objects to new restrictions on links and tweets

(Newser) - A journalist once chosen by Elon Musk to help write the " Twitter Files " project has broken with the platform and its owner. Matt Taibbi said the issue is Twitter's new restrictions on links and tweets about Substack, Forbes reports. The rules were enacted after the announcement of...

Musk Replaces Twitter Bird With Doge Dog (for Now)

Nobody seems to know why, or whether the move is a joke or permanent

(Newser) - A little more Twitter weirdness: Elon Musk has replaced its famous blue bird with an image of the dogecoin dog on the Twitter website . Is it a joke? Is it permanent? Nobody is quite sure, and as the Verge notes, press queries to Twitter now get an automatic reply of...

Twitter Strips a Prominent First of Its Blue Checkmark

Tweets Musk after 'NYT' refuses to pay for Twitter Blue: 'Oh ok, we’ll take it off then.'

(Newser) - Twitter said it was going to start removing the blue "verified" checkmarks on accounts that aren't paying for Twitter Blue—and on Sunday, it did so, at least for one account. The New York Times' Twitter account has been stripped of the blue badge that used to denote...

Principal Quits After Being Scammed by Fake Elon Musk

She wrote $100K check after months of communicating with fraudster

(Newser) - The principal of a charter STEM school in Florida resigned this week after saying she had been taken in by a scammer pretending to be Elon Musk. "I am a very smart lady. Well-educated. I fell for a scam," Dr. Jan McGee told a board meeting, per WESH...

Merriam-Webster Sees Elon Musk's Twitter Blue, Taunts With Red

Dictionary cheekily discontinues its M-W Red within hours

(Newser) - Merriam-Webster likes to get cheeky every once in a while, and Elon Musk and his Twitter Blue are the latest target. As Insider reports, the dictionary powerhouse used Musk's own forum to mock Twitter Blue, in a tweet that's currently clocking north of 4 million: "People who...

Grimes Says Daughter's Name Is Now 'Y'—or '?'

It's about 'curiosity, the eternal question'

(Newser) - The baby sister of X Æ A-XII now apparently has a new name. Grimes says she has renamed Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, her second child with Elon Musk, Page Six reports. "She's Y now, or 'Why?' or just '?' (But the government won't recognize...

Some of Twitter's Source Code Apparently Leaked Months Ago

But execs were just notified and had it taken down

(Newser) - In what the New York Times calls "a rare and major exposure of intellectual property," Twitter claims in a legal filing that portions of its source code were leaked online. Executives at the social media company believe a former employee who left sometime last year is responsible for...

Twitter: Get Ready to Lose Blue Checkmarks on April 1

Company says it's going to start removing them from 'legacy' verified accounts

(Newser) - Changes at Twitter—including the poop emoji auto-response for press inquiries—can be hard to distinguish from practical jokes, but the company is apparently serious about revoking blue checkmarks for some users on April Fool's Day. "On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program...

Elon Musk Has a Blanket Response to All Press Inquiries

And it is the poop emoji

(Newser) - In today's edition of What's Happening at Twitter, Deadline reports that all email inquiries from the media sent to the social network's official press email are receiving an automated reply that includes simply ... a poop emoji. CEO Elon Musk has long had an adversarial relationship with the...

Anthony Fauci Hits Back at Elon Musk
Anthony Fauci
Responds to Elon Musk
Mar 13, 2023 12:37 AM CDT

Anthony Fauci Responds to Elon Musk

Says calls to prosecute him are 'insanity'

(Newser) - Elon Musk called for prosecuting Anthony Fauci back in December, and Fauci on Saturday addressed that idea, calling it "insanity." "There's no response to that craziness, Jim," Fauci told Jim Acosta on CNN, per Fox News and Newsweek . "Prosecute me for what? What are...

Elon Musk Is Apparently Building His Own Town
Elon Musk
Aims to Build
'Texas Utopia'
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Mar 10, 2023 12:30 PM CST

Elon Musk Aims to Build 'Texas Utopia'

'Wall Street Journal' has the scoop on emerging 'town' on farmland near Austin

(Newser) - Elon Musk's next big move: Building a company town, apparently. The Wall Street Journal reports that Musk or related entities have bought up to 6,000 acres of farmland outside the Texas capital of Austin. The goal has a Musk-like sound to it:
  • "In meetings with landowners and
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Musk Does Rare 180, Apologizes for 'Surreal' Twitter Feud

He had called well-liked Twitter employee 'the worst,' among other things

(Newser) - Elon Musk found himself apologizing to a (possibly now former) Twitter employee after a bizarre exchange between the two on the social network went viral. It started when Haraldur "Halli" Thorleifsson mentioned Musk in a tweet, asking him to weigh in on Thorleifsson's employment status. "9 days...

Twitter Learns One Engineer Isn't Enough for a Major Project

Engineer's 'bad configuration change' broke the system, Platformer reports

(Newser) - Twitter CEO Elon Musk was "furious" Monday as the platform experienced its "sixth high-profile service outage " of the year, per Platformer . In an "embarrassing technology failure," photos wouldn't load and links led to an error message reading "your current API plan does not...

Twitter Has Major Glitch as Musk Complains, Too

For about an hour on Monday, the platform was down for many

(Newser) - The phrase "Twitter API" was trending on Twitter Monday—ironically because so many people couldn't tweet. The platform went down, or at least slowed down, for many people in what CNN calls one of the biggest outages since Elon Musk took over. Those who were unable to log...

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