All the headlines from our Twitter Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 8 2022 // Twitter Inc has been hit with another lawsuit stemming from the recent purging of half its workforce, this one accusing the social media company of disproportionately targeting female employees for layoffs.The proposed...
Nov 8 2022 // German insurer and asset manager Allianz will halt its paid advertising on Twitter for now, a spokesperson said on Monday, the latest in a wave of similar moves by companies in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover of the...
Nov 4 2022 // Twitter Inc. was sued over Elon Musk’s plan to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at the social-media platform, which workers say the company is doing without enough notice in violation of federal and California law.A...
Oct 31 2022 // Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has denied a New York Times report about laying off Twitter employees at a date earlier than Nov. 1 to avoid stock grants due on the day.In a response to a Twitter user asking about the...
Sep 13 2022 // Twitter Inc.’s security lapses were so grave that they threatened national security, the company’s former head of security-turned-whistle-blower told senators on Tuesday.Speaking before the Senate Judiciary...
Aug 31 2022 // Elon Musk is seeking to delay until November a trial over his intention to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter Inc TWTR.N and amend his complaint against the social media company, according to court filings,...
Aug 29 2022 // From fire departments to governments, from school districts to corporations, from local utilities to grassroots organizers around the world, Twitter at its best is a tool to get a message out quickly, efficiently,...
Aug 24 2022 // Twitter Inc. misled federal regulators about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company’s former security chief Peiter Zatko said in a whistleblower complaint.In an 84-page complaint,...
Aug 5 2022 // Twitter Inc. on Thursday dismissed Elon Musk’s claims in a Delaware court filing that he was hoodwinked into signing the deal to buy the social media company, saying that it was “implausible and contrary to...
Aug 1 2022 // Elon Musk countersued Twitter Inc. on Friday, escalating his legal fight against the social media company over his bid to walk away from the $44 billion purchase, although the lawsuit was filed confidentially.While the...
Jul 29 2022 // Twitter’s bid to hold Elon Musk to his $44 billion deal for the social media platform will head to a five-day trial beginning Oct. 17, and Musk must reveal by the end of Friday any legal claims he has against the...
Jul 13 2022 // Twitter Inc. sued Elon Musk over his abandoned $44 billion takeover bid, accusing the billionaire of having buyer’s remorse after his fortune declined.Lawyers for Twitter told a Delaware judge that the world’s...
Jul 11 2022 // Twitter Inc. has hired merger law heavyweight Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as it races to sue Elon Musk for moving to dump his $44 billion takeover of the company, according to people familiar with the matter.The...
Jun 6 2022 // Elon Musk warned Twitter Inc. on Monday that he might walk away from his $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company if it fails to provide the data on spam and fake accounts that he seeks.This was not the first...
May 27 2022 // Billionaire Elon Musk was sued by Twitter Inc .investors claiming he manipulated the company’s stock price downward, as the chief executive of electric carmaker Tesla Inc. mounts a $44 billion takeover bid for the...
May 26 2022 // Twitter Inc. has agreed to pay $150 million to settle allegations it misused private information, like phone numbers, to target advertising after telling users the information would be used for security reasons, according...
May 24 2022 // A report saying Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk’s company SpaceX paid $250,000 to settle sexual harassment claims by a flight attendant on a private jet comes as he eyes a takeover of Twitter.Below is an overview of some of...
May 2 2022 // A top EU official doesn’t expect to have a problem with Elon Musk, who is pursuing a free-speech agenda in his takeover of Twitter Inc., so long as the billionaire follows the region’s content rules.European...
Feb 1 2022 // Twitter has taken legal action against a rule, coming into force in Germany from Tuesday, that obliges social media firms to block or delete criminal content quickly and report particularly serious criminal offenses to the...
Sep 20 2021 // Twitter Inc. agreed to pay $809.5 million to settle a shareholder class action lawsuit that accused the social media company of painting an overly rosy picture of its future.The suit, originally filed by Twitter...