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This photo, taken in New York, Thursday, July 6, 2023, shows Meta's new app Threads. Meta unveiled the app to rival Twitter, targeting users looking for an alternative to the social media platform owned — and frequently changed — by Elon Musk. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Meta’s Threads plans to add features to siphon disgruntled users from Elon Musk’s X platform

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, on Friday, July 28, 2023. San Francisco has launched an investigation into the sign as city officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

X users can now hide verification status

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, on Friday, July 28, 2023. San Francisco has launched an investigation into the sign as city officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) ** FILE **

Brightly flashing ‘X’ sign removed from the former Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters

Associated Press

Twitter took control of the @X handle without paying the owner

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Indonesia blocks X.com citing porn, gambling restrictions

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Twitter logos hang outside the company's offices in San Francisco, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Ex-employee files lawsuit accusing Twitter of targeting him for layoffs due to his age

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden looks to Israel's President Isaac Herzog as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden’s White House is taking on corporate mergers, landlord junk fees and food prices

By Josh Boak - Associated Press

Lina Khan, the nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing, April 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans who say the Federal Trade Commission has been overzealous and politicized under President Joe Biden are set to interrogate agency head Lina Khan on Thursday, July 13, 2023. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP, File)

Twitter seeks end to U.S. oversight of data use as FTC’s Lina Kahn goes before House committee

By Michelle Chapman - Associated Press

Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University, on Oct. 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)

Twitter traffic down as Threads passes 100 million users

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

This photo, taken in New York, Thursday, July 6, 2023, shows Meta's new app Threads. Meta unveiled the app to rival Twitter, targeting users looking for an alternative to the social media platform owned — and frequently changed — by Elon Musk. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Twitter threatens legal action against Meta over its new rival app Threads

This combo of file images shows Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are ready to fight, offline. In a now-viral back-and-forth seen on Twitter and Instagram this week, the two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to a “cage match” face off. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, Stephan Savoia)

Zuckerberg’s Twitter rival Threads enlists millions, challenges Musk’s grip on microblogging media

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

TweetDeck to be exclusive to Twitter Blue users after July

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Attendees visit the Meta booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco on March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) **FILE**

Meta’s Twitter rival to hit app store this week

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Twitter logos hang outside the company's offices in San Francisco, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Twitter may now be worth one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social media platform just seven months ago. Financial services company Fidelity has reduced the market value of its equity stake in Twitter for a third time, now putting it at $6.55 billion. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Twitter accused in lawsuit of not paying employee bonuses

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Twitter logos hang outside the company's offices in San Francisco, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Twitter may now be worth one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social media platform just seven months ago. Financial services company Fidelity has reduced the market value of its equity stake in Twitter for a third time, now putting it at $6.55 billion. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Twitter evicted from Colorado offices in latest rent dispute

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tucker Carlson, formerly the host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. Fox News sent Carlson a “cease-and-desist” letter over his new Twitter series, Axios reported Monday, June 12, 2023, amid reports of contract battles between the conservative network and its former prime-time host. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Tucker Carlson defies Fox News, posts another Twitter show

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Twitter CEO Elon Musk, center, speaks with Linda Yaccarino, chairman of global advertising and partnerships for NBC, at the POSSIBLE marketing conference, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Miami Beach, Fla. Musk announced Friday, May 12, 2023, that he's hiring Yaccarino to be the new CEO of San Francisco-based Twitter, which is now called X Corp. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

New CEO: Twitter will be ‘global town square for communication’

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

French President Emmanuel Macron discusses with exhibitorsas he visits the Vivatech exhibition in Paris, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Europe's biggest startup and tech event runs until Sunday June 18, 2023. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)

France’s Macron wants to boost AI, calls for rules that don’t impede tech growth

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco on Nov. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) **FILE**

Twitter no longer paying for Google Cloud

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 2, 2015, photo, Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk delivers a conference at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) **FILE**

Twitter lawyers refute Musk’s claims about government coercion

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times