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Twitter lays off more staff, including ‘hardcore’ Elon Musk loyalists

Elon Musk has slashed Twitter’s workforce by nearly three-quarters since he took over the social media platform last year.

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Elon Musk gave €1.82 billion of Tesla stock to charity last year

The world’s second-richest man and CEO of Twitter has pledged to give away at least half of his wealth by the time he dies.

Europe Decoded

Why is Elon Musk's Twitter being sued in Germany?

The organisations behind the lawsuit are hoping this will set an international legal precedent that will help communities around the world keep Twitter accountable

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Twitter logo statue auctioned off for $100,000 as Musk cuts costs

New owner Elon Musk continues to try cutting costs at the company he acquired for $44 billion (€40.6 billion) last year.

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'Time of the Wild West is over,' EU’s Jourová warns Musk from Davos

The EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency discussed the Twitter takeover with Euronews Next at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

USA

Prospective jurors share various opinions of Elon Musk ahead of trial

A nine-person jury was selected Tuesday to hear a trial that will determine whether Tesla CEO Elon Musk cheated investors with tweets in 2018 saying that he had lined up financing to take the electric automaker private.

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Tate and the Taliban: The most controversial verified Twitter accounts

Even senior Taliban officials got hold of the Twitter blue tick after Elon Musk took over the social media platform.

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Elon Musk breaks record for largest loss of personal fortune

Elon Musk has set a Guinness World Record for the "largest loss of personal fortune in history” following his takeover of Twitter.

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Were Twitter moderators too close to the intelligence community?

Some have questioned whether Twitter users were being unnecessarily censored and whether twitter’s content moderation policy was its own, or whether it was effectively outsourced to the US intelligence community

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Euroviews. Best of Culture 2022: Day 30 - Highs & Lows of the Year

From blue tick impersonators to reinstating Trump, Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter takeover has sent the social media platform into chaos this year.

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Twitter back online after global outage has thousands complaining

Musk tweeted that "significant backend server architecture changes" had been rolled out and that "Twitter should feel faster".

Culture news

Who are Europe's richest people?

Unsurprisingly, some of the richest people in Europe are also the money behind the continent’s most famous brands: L’Oréal, Louis Vuitton, Zara, Chanel and Nutella.

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Tesla becomes worst-performing valuable tech stock of 2022

Elon Musk has sold off about $23 billion worth of Tesla stock this year to finance his Twitter purchase.

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Who could replace Elon Musk as the next Twitter CEO?

Elon Musk will be stepping down as CEO of Twitter imminently. But who could replace him?

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Elon Musk confirms he will step down as Twitter CEO

Elon Musk say he will step down as chief executive of Twitter Inc once he finds a replacement.

USA

Will Musk stand down as Twitter CEO?

After a poll he ran on Twitter asking users if he should quit called on him to go, Elon Musk's future as CEO of the social media site hangs in the balance.

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Twitter CEO Musk says he will reinstate suspended journalist accounts

Elon Musk has lifted the suspensions of the Twitter accounts of several journalists he had banned a day earlier, after the second poll he conducted on the topic went against his preferred outcome.

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Twitter reinstates banned journalists after Elon Musk online vote

There had been an outcry from the EU and United Nations over freedom of speech concerns when Elon Musk suspended accounts of several journalists.

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UN slams Twitter’s move to ban journalists as EU threatens sanctions

The United Nations says it's "very disturbed" by Twitter’s suspension of several journalists, and warns of a "dangerous precedent".

Mobility

Meet the activist trying to get self-driving Teslas off the roads

Dan O’Dowd says Tesla’s full self-driving software is unsafe, and he’s filming it running over child-sized dummies to make his point.