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French prosecutors have launched a police investigation into alleged data tampering and fraud involving X, Elon Musk’s social media platform. The Paris prosecutor's office, in a statement Friday, announced the opening of the investigation,
Linda Yaccarino, the former NBCUniversal executive who agreed to run Elon Musk’s X platform, is stepping down after about two years on the job, announcing her departure from the CEO role after a disastrous day for the platform’s artificial intelligence bot.
Musk tapped Yaccarino to replace him as CEO in 2023, shortly after purchasing the platform, then called Twitter, for $44 billion in October 2022. He said Yaccarino would focus primarily on Twitter's business while he focused on product design and new technology.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Wednesday announced she is stepping down after leading the platform owned by Elon Musk after two years
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Musk hired Yaccarino, a veteran ad executive, in May 2023 after buying Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and cutting most of its staff.
MrBeast has shared an update on his proposal to buy X, formerly Twitter, from Elon Musk. Newsweek reached out to MrBeast's representative and Musk's representative via email for comment on Friday. MrBeast—whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson—is one of the most popular YouTubers in the world.
Elon Musk threatened to sue Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta just hours after it launched Threads, its Twitter competitor. Two years later, Zuckerberg may soon have the last laugh. Threads is closing in on X’s daily active user count,
In the nearly three years since Musk acquired Twitter, the social-media platform has endured mass firings; an advertiser exodus; and, of late, antisemitic posts by its AI chatbot, Grok.
This marks the first major pricing adjustment since the service launched as Twitter Blue in India in February 2023.
Musk and X have faced other lawsuits over non-payment to vendors and over failure to provide severance as promised to laid-off employees from Twitter.