UPDATE: Elon Musk's reconciliation with Donald Trump may still be in the early stages, but the former DOGE frontman has made good with some of Twitter's ex-top executives. "WHEREAS, the Parties have reached a settlement and the settlement requires certain conditions to be met in the near term,"…

UPDATED, with comment from Meta and Google: Utah Governor Spencer Cox called social media “a cancer on society right now,” as he lamented the proliferation of graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Speaking to reporters on Friday, Cox said, “If you look at true political assassinations…

Graham Linehan has said he was arrested at Heathrow Airport yesterday over posts he made on X. London’s Metropolitan Police did not confirm the Father Ted creator’s name but said that a man was arrested yesterday “at Heathrow airport after he arrived on an inbound American Airlines flight,&#8221…

Soon after last month’s end of her turbulent two-year run as CEO of X (formerly Twitter), Linda Yaccarino has landed another top executive post. The former NBCUniversal and Turner Broadcasting sales exec has been named CEO of eMed Population Health, a division of the telehealth startup focused…

Elon Musk’s X has set its first UK Original in the shape of docuseries Keeping The Faith about Premier League club Burnley, we can reveal.  The deal is a first-of-its kind for X with a Premier League club, and will feature 20 episodes (10-12 mins each) released fortnightly during the upcoming…

Sesame Workshop is addressing Elmo’s hacked X account that shared “abhorrent” messages that were antisemitic and racist. “On Sunday, Elmo’s X account was briefly hacked by an outside party, in spite of the security measures in place,” read the statement on X, the microblogging platform owned by…

In her last public appearance as CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino sat down last month at the Cannes Lions advertising conference with tennis great Serena Williams. Along with touting Williams’ forthcoming X podcast, the pair found common ground in their experiences with the social media platform long…

Linda Yaccarino is exiting X. The former NBCUniversal exec who made headlines two years ago by jumping to X, formerly Twitter, in the wake of Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the platform, announced her departure Wednesday in a post. “After two incredible years, I've decided to step…

Elon Musk’s xAI has deleted “inappropriate" posts on X after its AI chatbot Grok made a series of offensive remarks, including praising Hitler and making antisemitic comments. In now-deleted posts, Grok referred to a person with a common Jewish surname as someone who was "celebrating the tragic…

EXCLUSIVE: Brett Weitz has departed X where he served as Global Head of Content, Talent and Brand Sales since September 2023. The former General Manager Of TNT, TBS & truTV was a driving force behind X’s Originals group. Amid ongoing turbulence and controversies surrounding the social media…

X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, is changing its address but staying within Elon Musk’s corporate portfolio. In a post on X, Musk said his artificial intelligence firm xAI acquired X in an all-stock deal valuing the platform at $45 billion, minus $12 billion in debt. The…

UPDATED 10.48 a.m PT: Elon Musk has said X is under a “massive” and sustained cyberattack attack as his social media platform suffered at least three outages across Monday. “There was (still is) a massive cyber attack against X,” Musk posted on the platform. “We get attacked every day, but this…