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In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin. Activists are appealing to Tesla Inc. to close a new showroom in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP, File)

GOP excited over Elon Musk becoming Twitter’s largest shareholder

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, Monday, March 9, 2020. Musk has purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter, approximately 73.5 million shares, according to a regulatory filing, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Musk makes social media splash with large stake in Twitter stock

By Ryan Lovelace

Facebook unveiled their new Meta sign outside the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar) ** FILE **

Inside Meta’s Oversight Board: Complaints that review blocked for some Facebook censorship decisions

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

The login/sign up screen for a Twitter account is seen on a laptop computer Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. Twitter is expanding Birdwatch, its crowd-sourced fact checking project it started as a small and little-publicized pilot program last January. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Twitter expanding crowdsourced fact-checking ‘Birdwatch’ project

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This July 9, 2019 file photo shows a sign outside of the Twitter office building in San Francisco. Twitter users will soon see new warning labels on false and misleading tweets, redesigned to make them more effective and less confusing. The labels, which the company has been testing since July, are an update from those Twitter used for election misinformation before and after the 2020 presidential contest. Those labels drew criticism for not doing enough to keep people from spreading obvious falsehoods. The redesign launching worldwide on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021 is an attempt to make them more useful and easier to notice, among other things. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

9th Circuit dismisses Twitter lawsuit against Texas over Trump ban

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Ukrainian government pressures Twitter to ban Russia’s official account

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Washington Football Team defensive tackle Jonathan Allen (93) warms up before an NFL football game against the Washington Football Team, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021 in Landover. (AP Photo/Daniel Kucin Jr.)

Commanders defensive lineman Jonathan Allen apologizes for ‘dumb’ Hitler tweet

By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez staying off Twitter due to backlash

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times

In this April 26, 2017, photo a Twitter app icon is shown on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Twitter directed people to delete millions of tweets that hardly anyone saw

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This Nov. 2, 2011, file photo shows a DirecTV satellite dish on a post in the front yard of a home in Harmony, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Rand Paul rips DirecTV, cancels subscription after company drops One America News

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., listens during a news conference about the treatment of people being held in the District of Columbia jail who are charged with crimes in the Jan. 6 insurrection, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Twitter on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, banned the personal account of Greene for multiple violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a statement from the company. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on all GOP lawmakers to leave Twitter

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Chinese diplomats have Twitter links to porn sites banned at home

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 28, 2020, photo, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on a screen as he speaks remotely during a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Shares of Twitter are surging at the market open on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, following a report that Dorsey will be stepping down from his post. (Michael Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Jack Dorsey announces exit as Twitter CEO; company stocks jump more than 10%

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle speak during the Global Citizen festival on Sept. 25, 2021, in New York. Harry says he warned the chief executive of Twitter ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that the social media site was being used to stage political unrest in the U.S. capital. Harry made the comments Tuesday, Nov. 9 during a panel on misinformation in California. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah) **FILE**

Prince Harry says he warned Twitter CEO of U.S. Capitol riot

By Danica Kirka

In this Feb. 25, 2021, file photo, Dr. Rachel Levine, nominated to be an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Voting mostly along party lines, the U.S. Senate on March 24, confirmed Levine to be assistant secretary of health. She becomes the first openly transgender federal official to win Senate confirmation. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP, File)

Twitter suspends GOP congressman for calling Biden health adviser Rachel Levine a man

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This Jan. 14, 2013, file photo shows a gavel sitting on a desk inside a courtroom. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Trial of accused Saudi spy at Twitter delayed until next year

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this July 11, 2021, file photo former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas. Trump wants a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to restore his account, which was suspended in January following the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump’s attorneys on Friday, Oct. 1, filed a motion for preliminary injunction against Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Trump asks US judge to force Twitter to restore his account

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In this April 26, 2017, photo a Twitter app icon is shown on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Twitter offers to settle class-action lawsuit for more than $800 million

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand reacts after a lift in the women's +87kg weightlifting event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Erick Erickson reiterates ‘Laurel Hubbard is a man’ after Twitter unfreezes account

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand competes in the women's +87kg weightlifting event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

‘Laurel Hubbard is a man’ tweet lands Erick Erickson in Twitter jail

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times