Twitter’s stock experienced a 3% rise pricing each share at $38.98 Tuesday morning before Wall Street rang the opening bell. However, the price remains far less than Musk’s initial offer of $54.20 per share.
EU’s new code of practice on disinformation aims to prevent advertising from appearing alongside posts deemed to be intentionally false or misleading
The outlet notes that the data, which reportedly includes account information, a real-time record of tweets and the devices users tweet from, could be given to Musk as soon as this week. Currently, about two dozen companies pay to access the data, according to the Post.
Elon Musk on Monday accused Twitter of breaching its contract with him by failing to provide information about spam accounts — and once again threatened to back out of his $44 billion takeover deal.
The move raised investor hopes that Musk still intends to make the deal amid his concerns about the number of fake accounts on Twitter.
When asked point-blank virtually during a Future of the Car event hosted by the Financial Times allowing Trump back on the social media platform, Musk described Trump’s ban as morally wrong and “flat-out stupid.”
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The Department of Homeland Security has formed a new Disinformation Governance Board ahead of the 2022 midterms in order to counter online “misinformation” related to COVID-19, elections and migrant smuggling.
President Biden’s pick to head the board, Nina Jankowicz, has already ruffled some feathers after it was discovered that the Wilson Center global fellow and author had previously pushed information later found to be false or misleading.
After over a million users spent weeks on a waitlist, the app switched to Rumble’s cloud services on April 22 in a move the company said would enable it to “scale significantly.” Days later, on April 26, the Truth Social app rose to No. 1 on the Apple App Store downloads list.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared to react negatively on Twitter in response to the Biden administration’s establishment of a “Disinformation Governance Board” to combat online disinformation just days after Musk’s deal to buy Twitter.
“I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter,” Musk wrote today on his new platform.” because that is what free speech means.
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