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Twitter loses more than half of top advertisers, data shows

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco, Dec. 8, 2022. Twitter has failed to provide a full report to the European Union on its efforts to combat online disinformation, drawing a rebuke from top officials of the 27-nation bloc. The company signed up to the EU’s voluntary 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation last year — before billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought the social media platform. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

EU officials criticize Twitter for scant disinformation report

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Twitter logos are displayed outside the company's offices in San Francisco on Dec. 19, 2022. Elon Musk is trying to slash expenses at Twitter as close to zero as possible while his personal wealth shrinks — and this apparently has included falling behind on rent payments at the company's offices, according to a lawsuit filed by the landlord in December 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Twitter expanding length of posts for paying subscribers as platform suffers hiccups

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

EU diplomat calls on Musk to tackle Russian disinformation on Twitter

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Sen. Steve Daines, Montana Republican, was suspended Monday from Twitter for posting a photo of him and his wife Cindy Daines after an antelope hunt. He was reinstated the following day. (Photo courtesy Office of Sen. Steve Daines)

Elon Musk frees Steve Daines from Twitter jail over antelope-hunting photo

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) ** FILE **

House GOP warns of Taliban, terror groups purchasing verified blue checks on Twitter

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Jury clears Elon Musk of wrongdoing related to 2018 Tesla tweets

By Michael Liedtke - Associated Press

Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy) **FILE**

Elon Musk meets with White House officials to discuss electric vehicles

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House refuses to say if officials discussed Hunter Biden’s laptop computer with Elon Musk

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Musk returned to federal court to defend himself against a class-action lawsuit that alleges he misled Tesla shareholders with a tweet about an aborted buyout that the billionaire defiantly insisted Tuesday he could have pulled off, had he wanted. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy)

Elon Musk’s tweeting style seizes spotlight in Tesla trial

By Michael Liedtke

Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Musk returned to federal court to defend himself against a class-action lawsuit that alleges he misled Tesla shareholders with a tweet about an aborted buyout that the billionaire defiantly insisted Tuesday he could have pulled off, had he wanted. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy)

Elon Musk defiantly defends himself in Tesla tweet trial

By Michael Liedtke

Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2022. More landlords are taking Twitter to court over unpaid rent at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco and its British offices. It's the latest legal headache for billionaire owner Elon Musk, who has been trying to slash expenses and faces a separate lawsuit over Tesla. California court documents show that Twitter is facing a lawsuit over allegations it failed to pay rent for its head office. The owner of its premises in central London, meanwhile, said it’s taking the company to court over rental debt. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Twitter faces lawsuits over unpaid rent in U.S., U.K. offices

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition on March 9, 2020, in Washington. Lawyers for Tesla shareholders suing Musk over a misleading tweet are urging a federal judge to reject the billionaire's request to move an upcoming trial to Texas from California. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Musk pledges to open Twitter’s algorithm up to public, says it will improve

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington. A federal judge on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, rejected Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s bid to move or delay a trial over a misleading tweet about a potential buyout of the electric automaker, setting the stage for the mercurial billionaire to be thrust into a legal drama amid the turmoil of his Twitter takeover. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Elon Musk’s next drama: A trial over his tweets about Tesla

By Michael Liedtke - Associated Press

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, Monday, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Twitter says it will relax ban on political advertising

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is denying allegations that it is violating Musk’s free speech rights by trying to enforce a 2018 securities fraud settlement. The commission says in an appeals brief filed Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, that Musk waived his First Amendment rights by agreeing to the settlement. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

SEC says it’s not violating Elon Musk’s right to free speech

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

Elon Musk arrives at the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 13, 2021. According to a filing posted late Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of Tesla stock during the week, but it wasn’t clear where the proceeds were being spent. Musk has sold nearly $23 billion worth of Tesla stock since April, with much of the money likely going to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ** FILE **

Elon Musk’s security members sought for questioning in stalking investigation

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

FILE - Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2020. Musk says he plays on remaining as Twitter’s CEO until he can find someone willing to replace him in the job. Musk's announcement came after millions of Twitter users asked him to step down in an unscientific poll the billionaire himself created and promised to abide by. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Musk says Twitter in precarious position, defends cost cuts

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Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, Monday, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Elon Musk to resign as Twitter CEO ‘as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job’

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

SpaceX's Elon Musk waves while providing an update on Starship, on Feb. 10, 2022, near Brownsville, Texas. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP, File)

Musk says only paying users will get voting power to shape Twitter policy

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times