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Published
April 12, 2023

NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled ‘state-affiliated media’

The privately owned nonprofit says it receives less than 1% of its annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS and the BBC were given the same label.
Published
April 4, 2023

Twitter’s shadow workforce sues over Musk’s mass layoffs

The suit was brought on behalf of workers hired by Twitter through employee staffing company TEKsystems Inc.
Published
April 2, 2023

Twitter pulls check mark from main New York Times account

Early Sunday, Musk tweeted that the Times' check mark would be removed. Later he posted disparaging remarks about the newspaper.
Published
March 31, 2023

Twitter’s blue check mark was loved and loathed. Now it’s pay for play.

Twitter verification is ending for people awarded blue checks under an old system, the company says, the latest shift under CEO Elon Musk.
Published
March 27, 2023

Twitter celebs balk at paying Elon Musk for blue check mark

After months of delay, Musk is gleefully promising that Saturday is the deadline for celebrities, journalists, and others who'd been verified for free to pony up or lose their legacy status.

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Published
March 24, 2023

Musk says Twitter will get rid of blue check marks unless users pay up

Shortly after taking over the company last October, Musk said he would expand a preexisting paid version of Twitter to include paying for a blue check mark.
Published
March 20, 2023

Antisemitic tweets soared on Twitter after Musk took over, study finds

The study, which used machine-learning tools to identify likely antisemitic tweets, found that the average weekly number of such posts "more than doubled after Musk's acquisition."
Published
March 6, 2023

At Elon Musk’s ‘brittle’ Twitter, small tweaks trigger massive outages

'Every mistake in code and operations is now deadly,' a former engineer said last year. That dire prediction appears to be coming true.
Published
March 6, 2023

Thousands of pro-Trump Twitter bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley

Researchers have uncovered a network of tens of thousands of fake Twitter accounts created to support former President Donald Trump and attack his critics and potential rivals.
Published
February 26, 2023

Commentary: Some surprising findings about misinformation and content moderation

Crowdsourcing fact-checks works. Suspending accounts does not.