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From restoring Trump to continuous layoffs, more scenes from inside Elon Musk’s Twitter

Employees and advertisers keep telling him about the risks of the changes he’s making to Twitter — but he’s not listening

So far Twitter Blue is a mess and might even lose money.

Behind the scenes at the wildest tech takeover ever, where everyone knows company-shaking changes are coming — and no one knows exactly when

Internal surveys from 2019 to 2022 show that the company’s morale crisis predates Elon Musk

The journalists behind a controversial series of stories tell us they haven’t been hoaxed. We’re not so sure







Why more platforms need to close the stochastic terrorism loophole

Say goodbye to the TikTok-style feed and at least some of those recommendations






Thoughts on my first week with OpenAI’s amazing text-to-image AI tool




Depends: What kind of activist investor does Musk want to be?

WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart on how the Digital Markets Act could upend encryption, privacy, and product design





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