Beginning on Monday night and stretching into his Tuesday show, Fox News host Tucker Carlson will air an extensive interview with Elon Musk. It promises to be a revealing portrait of an enigmatic billionaire who has rarely made his views and opinions public. Just kidding! Musk spews his every half-baked …
Read More »The Elon Musk Twitter Era is Nigh, Thanks in Part to Cash From Trump's Pals
Elon Musk’s deal to acquire Twitter has had its ups and downs, much like the stock price of most of his companies. But it seems like a final arrangement is approaching, and that once it arrives Musk will be pulling the strings of the social networking platform where he spends …
Read More »Elon Musk, Who Just Tweeted That 69.420% of Stats Are False, Makes Play to Take Total Control of Twitter
Elon Musk, one of Twitter‘s most prolific, high-profile trolls, wants complete control over the social media platform. “I made an offer,” Tesla’s billionaire CEO tweeted Thursday morning. The attached filing, dated Wednesday, lays out a plan for Musk to buy the remaining shares of Twitter he does not already own …
Read More »Gilbert Gottfried's Twitter Gets Hacked Hours After Death
Just hours after Gilbert Gottfried‘s family announced his death on Twitter, his verified account began linking to an amateur porn star’s OnlyFans and leading people to follow a rap stan account on Instagram. The comedian’s Twitter bio had been changed to “hacked by” and an Instagram handle just several hours …
Read More »How a Government Agency's Offbeat Twitter Memes Landed in the Library of Congress
In September 2016, Joseph Galbo put a baby in a forcefield. It was the second day of Baby Safety Month, and Galbo, the social media specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, had gotten the OK from his director to try out a new way of communicating to the American …
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