Tag: Media & Big Tech

Judge Orders Twitter to Give Elon Musk Former Executive’s Documents

WILMINGTON, Del—Twitter Inc. needs to give Elon Musk documents from a former Twitter executive who Musk said was a key figure in calculating the amount of fake accounts on the platform, according to a Monday court order. Bot and spam accounts on Twitter have become a central issue in the legal fight over whether Musk,…


Alex Berenson Says He’s Going to Sue Biden Administration for Pressuring Twitter to Ban Him

Journalist Alex Berenson said on Aug. 12 that he plans to sue President Joe Biden and other government officials for pressuring Twitter to ban him. “I don’t have a target date yet, but I would like to move as quickly as possible. I believe I have a powerful claim and I want federal courts to…


Trump Responds to Nuclear Documents Reports, Says It’s a Continuation of Russia ‘Hoax’

Former President Donald Trump said reports that the FBI was allegedly searching for documents on nuclear weapons at his Mar-a-Lago residence is a “hoax” and likened it to years-long claims that he was a Russian agent. “Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax,…


Trump Responds to Nuclear Documents Reports

Former President Donald Trump said reports that the FBI was allegedly searching for documents on nuclear weapons at his Mar-a-Lago residence is a “hoax” and likened it to years-long claims that he was a Russian agent. “Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax,…


Facebook Use Plummets Among Teens as YouTube, TikTok Use Surges: Pew Research

The number of teenagers using Facebook has drastically plummeted by nearly 40 percent, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. A survey of 1,316 American teens ages 13 to 17 found that teens who say they use Facebook have declined from 71 percent between 2014 to 2015 to 32 percent today. Meanwhile, the share…


Shannon Bream to Take Over ‘Fox News Sunday,’ Replacing Chris Wallace

Fox News Channel veteran Shannon Bream will be the new anchor of the “Fox News Sunday” political talk show, replacing Chris Wallace who left the network after 18 years last December. Bream’s replacement of Wallace will mark the first time the show has had a female correspondent in its 26-year history. Bream, who is Fox’s chief legal correspondent,…


Elon Musk Posts X.com on Twitter, Hinting at Potential Social Media Site of His Own

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Aug. 10 referred to his own website as a potential rival to Twitter if his $44 billion deal to purchase the social media platform ultimately doesn’t go through. The reference came in response to a question from one of his followers. “Have you thought about creating your own social platform?…


Former Twitter Worker Found Guilty of Spying For Saudi Arabia

A federal jury has convicted a former employee at Twitter for transmitting user information on behalf of Saudi Arabia and its royal family. Ahmad Abouammo, 44, worked for Twitter as a Media Partnerships Manager for the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region between November 2013 and May 2015. The evidence submitted during his trial showed that…


Meta Raises $10 Billion in First-Ever Bond Offering

Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc. said on Tuesday it had raised $10 billion in its first-ever bond offering, as it looks to fund share buybacks and investments to revamp its business. The offering would help Meta, the only one among big technology companies without debt on its books, to build a more traditional balance sheet and…


Twitter Says Loading Issues Fixed After User Complaints

Twitter Inc. said on Tuesday it had fixed issues after thousands of users reported that they were having trouble accessing the micro-blogging platform. More than 27,000 users had reported outage of the service, according to Downdetector.com, a website which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its…