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Computer monitors and a laptop display the X, formerly known as Twitter, sign-in page, July 24, 2023, in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk over firings

By Barbara Ortutay - Associated Press

Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, gestures during an event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Nov. 2, 2023. The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday Jan. 15, 2024 in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the gathering of political and business elites at the Swiss ski resort of Davos. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool) **FILE**

Elon Musk order to open files ignored by Twitter staff worried about federal fines

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk addresses the European Jewish Association's conference, in Krakow, Poland, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Musk: Neuralink patient moving computer mouse by thinking

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk addresses the European Jewish Association's conference, in Krakow, Poland, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Musk shifts SpaceX to Texas after court nixes his pay package

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Actress Gina Carano arrives at the premiere of the feature film "Haywire" in Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg) ** FILE **

Elon Musk casually floats the idea of buying Disney

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, gestures during an event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Nov. 2, 2023. The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday Jan. 15, 2024 in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the gathering of political and business elites at the Swiss ski resort of Davos. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool) **FILE**

Musk calls DEI ‘fundamentally antisemitic’ after Auschwitz visit

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk, centre, walks during his visit to the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi German death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. The private visit was apparently in response to calls from some Jewish religious leaders for Musk to see with his own eyes the most symbolic site of the horrors of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Andrzej Rudiak)

Elon Musk privately visits Auschwitz-Birkenau site in response to accusations of antisemitism on X

Associated Press

Jimmy Donaldson, YouTube’s biggest star under the name MrBeast, has over 225 million subscribers on his main channel. He is one of the video hosting site's most profitable personalities, making an estimated $82 million for himself in 2023. (File Photo credit: Joe Seer via Shutterstock)

YouTube’s biggest creator refuses Musk’s offer to place videos on X

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk reacts during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, on Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool) **FILE**

Musk lashes out at media for robot attack story

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks before unveiling the Model Y at Tesla's design studio on March 14, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ** FILE **

Judge recuses himself in Musk’s Media Matters lawsuit

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk, who owns Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, speaks at the Vivatech fair, in Paris, France, Friday, June 16, 2023. The head of Elon Musk’s social media platform X says the company has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts and taken down or labeled thousands of pieces of content since the militant group’s attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Musk goes all in on Pizzagate, then deletes post

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk reacts during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. IBM has stopped advertising on social media platform X after a report said its ads were appearing alongside material praising Adolf Hitler and Nazis — a fresh setback as the site formerly known as Twitter tries to win back big brands and their ad dollars.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool) **FILE**

White House lashes out at Elon Musk, says he promoted ‘antisemitic and racist hate’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this May 29, 2014, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, introduces the SpaceX Dragon V2 spaceship at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. Musk’s SpaceX and T-Mobile are teaming up to help provide voice and data services anywhere by having satellites connect with cellphones using T-Mobile’s wireless spectrum. The plan, called Coverage Above and Beyond, looks to use SpaceX’s Starlink satellites that are in low Earth orbit and T-Mobile’s wireless network to reach people even in remote areas of the U.S. that typically don’t receive traditional cell signals. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Musk offers Starlink services to aid organizations in Gaza amid intensifying ground war

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, Friday, July 28, 2023. A top European Union official said Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, that the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc's laws aimed at combating disinformation. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Musk considering removing X access in Europe

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. A federal appeals court Friday, July 21, said it will reconsider its March ruling that Musk unlawfully threatened employees with a loss of stock options in a 2018 Twitter post amid an organizing effort by the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/ Benjamin Fanjoy, File)

Musk took out $1 billion loan from SpaceX ahead of Twitter deal

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., introduces the Model X car at the company's headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, in Fremont, Calif. Musk may want to send tweet back to the birds, but the ubiquitous term for posting on the site he now calls X is here to stay, at least for now. For one, the word is still plastered all over the website formerly known as Twitter. Write a post, you still need to press a blue button that says tweet to publish it. To repost it, you still tap retweet. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) **FILE**

Musk wants to remove headlines from X

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk to remove ability for X users to block other accounts

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

This combo of file images shows Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Elon Musk says his potential in-person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. “Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X,” Musk wrote in a post Sunday Aug. 6, 2023, on the platform. “All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.” (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, Stephan Savoia, File)

Musk says his cage fight with Zuckerberg will be streamed on X

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Musk reveals new black-and-white X logo to replace Twitter’s blue bird

The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device, Monday, April 25, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Twitter acquires job search startup Laskie

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times