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Twitter Security Staff Kept Firm In Compliance By Disobeying Musk

Twitter employees prevented Elon Musk from violating the company’s privacy settlement with the US government, according to the Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, ArsTechnica reported. After Musk bought Twitter in late 2022, he gave Bari Weiss and other journalists access to company documents in the so-called “Twitter Files” incident. The access given to outside individuals raised concerns that Twitter

Twitter Violated Contract That Failed to Pay Bonuses To Employees

A federal judge ruled late Friday afternoon that Twitter, now known as X, violated a contract when it failed to pay what amounts to tens of millions of dollars in bonuses that the company had orally promised its employees, Courthouse News Service reported. Mark Schobinger, the former senior director of compensation for Twitter, filed suit against the social media company

Elon Musk Strips Headlines Off News Links On Twitter In Overhaul

X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service, stripping out the headline and other text so that tweets with links display only an article’s lead image, according to material viewed by Fortune. Roughly four hours after the publication of this article, Elon Musk confirmed these plans,

A Glitch Temporarily Wiped Out X Images And Links

Since Friday, users of X, formerly Twitter, started noticing that many images posted on the platform between 2011 and 2014 were no longer accessible, according to various media reports, Insider reported. The glitch resulted in some of the most viral moments in internet history becoming inaccessible. It also seemed to affect links posted in the same three-year period - some

Twitter Deletes All User Photos And Links From 2011 – 2014

Twitter, the social media company officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014. Links that used Twitter’s native shortening service are also broken, Forbes reported. According to Forbes, its not immediately clear if this was an intentional act or an error, but whatever’s happening is causing concern among

Musk Says X’s ‘Block’ Feature Is Going Away

Part of the X roadmap? Off-handed reply? Simple attempt to get a rise out of people? Time will tell, TechCrunch reported. The one thing we can say for sure is that X’s owner responded to a post on the platform (on August 18) foreshadowing the potential removal of the block feature. “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’,

Twitter Will Lose Bird Logo In Brand Overhaul

Twitter owner Elon Musk said overnight Sunday that his social media platform will retire its widely recognized blue bird logo, and eventually the Twitter name, as part of his relentless effort to overhaul the company, The Washington Post reported. Amid a series of tweets asking users whether the brand should change its default color from blue to black or white,