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Amazon plans to lay off 10,000 of its corporate and technology employees, The New York Times reported Monday.

National

It's the end of the boom times in tech, as layoffs keep mounting

8:16pm November 14, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

Amazon will reportedly lay off 10,000 employees as soon as this week. That follows job cuts at Meta, Twitter, and Stripe, with CEOs citing economic uncertainty and a slowdown in online ad buying.

People walk outside Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022.

National

Elon Musk targets impersonators on Twitter after celebrities troll him

8:49am November 07, 2022

by The Associated Press

Twitter's new owner warned of suspending accounts after some celebrities tweeted as 'Elon Musk' in reaction to the billionaire's decision to offer verified accounts for a fee.

The new normal of election disinformation

5:09pm November 04, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Tech companies are showing people a little bit about misleading information so they're better equipped to recognize and resist it. And they've seen encouraging results — for now, anyway.

Elon Musk regularly tweets and shares controversial things on Twitter, but now that he's the boss, his actions take on new significance. In this photo, Musk arrives for the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York.

Elon Musk said Twitter wouldn't become a 'hellscape.' It's already changing

12:14pm November 01, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Musk has deleted a tweet in which he shared misinformation about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, but not before it had been retweeted and liked tens of thousands of times.

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Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission's executive vice president, said on Monday that regulators have stepped up scrutiny of Twitter since Elon Musk acquired the social network.

World News

Top European official: if Twitter ignores the law, penalties will 'haunt' Elon Musk

1:54pm October 31, 2022

by Bobby Allyn

In her first interview since Musk took the reins of Twitter, Margrethe Vestager said there will be serious penalties against Twitter if the platform ignores new European speech laws.

A poll worker handles ballots for the midterm election, in the presence of observers from both Democrat and Republican parties, at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Elections Center in Phoenix on Oct. 25.

False information is everywhere. 'Pre-bunking' tries to head it off early

4:54pm October 29, 2022

by Shannon Bond

The idea is to show people the tactics and tropes of misleading information before they encounter it in the wild — so they're better equipped to recognize and resist it.

This image from the Twitter page of Elon Musk shows Musk entering Twitter headquarters carrying a sink through the lobby area on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022 in San Francisco.

National

Elon Musk takes control of Twitter and immediately ousts top executives

11:12pm October 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and ousted the CEO, chief financial officer and the company's general counsel, two people familiar with the deal said.

Billionaire Elon Musk's on-again, off-again bid to acquire Twitter advanced this week after he agreed to pay the $44 billion he had originally offered for the social media site.

Politics & Government

Here's what Elon Musk will likely do with Twitter if he buys it

7:30pm October 07, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Musk says he'd loosen rules against spreading misinformation, allow former President Donald Trump back on Twitter, shake up the company's business model and find new revenue sources.

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Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, former head of security at Twitter, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on data security at Twitter, on Capitol Hill, September 13, 2022 in Washington, DC.

Twitter may have hired a Chinese spy and four other takeaways from the Senate hearing

4:38pm September 13, 2022

Twitter's former security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko accused the company of misleading the public, the government and its own board of directors over security flaws.

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station set up in a fire station on Aug. 23 in Miami Beach, Fla.

Politics & Government

Social media firms are prepping for the midterms. Experts say it may not be enough

12:18pm September 12, 2022

by Shannon Bond

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok are bringing back familiar strategies from 2020 to fight the spread of disinformation in the 2022 midterm elections.