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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk, owner of Twitter, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and currently the world’s richest person, is siding with striking editorial staff members of Insider Inc. in their fight to get a new contract with the digital media outlet. “They should keep striking. Fight on, comrades!” Musk tweeted Wednesday in reply to a post about the Insider editorial strike. In May 2022, Business Insider published a story saying Musk was “accused of exposing himself during a massage and offering to buy a horse for a SpaceX flight attendant if she were willing to perform a sex act on him.” In response, Musk called the allegations “utterly untrue” and called a person who talked to Insider a “liar.”

Elon Musk may have just messed with the wrong momma.

Elon Musk basically confirmed today that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to announce his candidacy for the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Twitter tomorrow in an interview with the platform’s owner himself.

Reuters reported.Heresniak had claimed in the suit, which had sought class action status, that by delaying disclosure of his purchases of Twitter stock, Musk cost him and other shareholders $156 million. It was filed in May 2022, about a month after the company had accepted Musk’s buyout offer.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk, after dramatically slashing Twitter’s headcount following his takeover of the social platform, said the company will try to rehire some of them — acknowledging that the job cuts were too deep. Musk has slashed Twitter’s headcount by about 80%, from 7,800 to about 1,500, as he has attempted to cut costs and get the company in the black. “Some people who were let go probably shouldn’t have been,” Musk said during an interview with CNBC anchor David Faber following the 2023 Tesla annual shareholder meeting Tuesday at the car maker’s headquarters in Austin, Texas. “Desperate times call for desperate measures… Unfortunately, if you do it fast, there are some babies who will be thrown out,” Musk said. Twitter now will probably try to rehire some of the Twitter employees that were let go, he said.

Twitter has a new CEO.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentary Films has pre-bought North American streaming and TV rights to Musk, Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about lightning rod entrepreneur and businessman Elon Musk.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The squeaky wheel gets the Twitter blue check-mark, it seems. After Twitter’s mass revocation Thursday of thousands of “legacy” verified blue check-marks, carrying out owner Elon Musk’s long-promised purge of the “corrupt” system, several high-profile accounts still had the iconic blue badges… even though they evidently aren’t paying for Twitter Blue (the subscription service whose perks now include a blue check-mark). Those included NBA superstar LeBron James, actor William Shatner and author Stephen King — each of whom had tweeted that they wouldn’t pay for Twitter Blue or had complained about Musk’s switch in the verification program.

apparent enthusiasm for 4/20, Fallon had another theory on what happened when the rocket blew up.“At first when people saw the rocket light up and start smoking, they were like ‘All right, happy 4/20 everybody! Yeah, we did it! That’s cool! Awesome, man,'” he joked.Fallon also mocked SpaceX’s hope that Starship will eventually be able to take people to Mars, saying “I think I speak for everyone when I say: uh, you first.”You can watch Fallon’s full monologue in the video above.

according to Bloomberg. In a 24-hours, amid a rocket explosion, disappointing earnings for Tesla, and the Twitter stuff, the world richest man lost $13 billon. To see Colbert’s full monologue, click the video above.

up that rocket explosion, joking after playing a clip that it was “the most expensive penis overcompensation in history.”“The starship was in the air for about four minutes. Until multiple engines went out, and it blew up,” Kimmel continued. “Which, for some reason elicited a big round of applause from the company.”Kimmel mocked the unusual euphemism SpaceX used to describe the explosion — “rapid unscheduled disassembly” — joking that it was “the same thing that happened to Twitter when Elon Musk took over.”“I have to hand it to them.

Twitter has entered a whole new era.

Elon Musk is footing the bill.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship went up in flames on Thursday morning.

Elon Musk is feeling the heat on Twitter after his SpaceX rocket blew up again!

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship – the biggest and most powerful space rocket ever developed – has exploded minutes after blasting off. The launch, which took place from SpaceX’s Starbase in Texas, came after a stuck valve forced a launch attempt on Monday to be aborted.

SpaceX is preparing for the first launch of history's biggest rocket today (April 20).

transform Twitter into a super-app, Elon Musk now says he’s going to dive into the artificial intelligence chatbot arena to save the world from “political correctness.”Musk told Tucker Carlson on Monday that he plans to create his own chatbot, after taking credit for jumpstarting the development of ChatGPT, the hugely popular chatbot software from OpenAI.“I’m going to start something which I called TruthGPT, or a maximum truth seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” Musk told Tucker Carlson on Monday.Elsewhere in his “Tucker Carlson Tonight” interview, the embattled Twitter CEO boasted that he came up with the name “ChatGPT” as well as the concept and “had a number of dinners around the Bay Area with some of the leading figures in AI” through its development.Musk was one of a group of high profile early funders of OpenAI in 2015, and an original co-chair of the company behind ChatGPT that is working with Microsoft. He told Carlson he recruited the initial team, in particular naming Ilya Sutskever, who is considered one of the co-founders of the company and who Musk said “was really quite fundamental to the success of OpenAI.”“I put a tremendous amount of effort into recruiting Ilya and he changed his mind a few times, and ultimately decided to go with OpenAI.

Elon Musk will finally initiate the SpaceX Starship rocket launch today as he makes another step toward realizing his extraterrestrial dream.

Doja Cat don’t need no “blue ticks.”

said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that it would lay off 675 employees, or about 85% of its staff.Shares of Virgin Orbit Holdings dropped 4 cents, or more than 20%, to just over 15 cents in Tuesday trading.The company, which is a spinoff of Branson’s space tourism business Virgin Galactic, went public in March 2021 via combination with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The stock was never highly valued and hit its all time high of $10.63 in June of that year, ahead of Branson’s historic trip into space.

EXCLUSIVE: Religion of Sports has hired Ben Whitla to be its CMO. ROS, the production company co-founded by Gotham Chopra, Tom Brady, and Michael Strahan, brings Whitla over from Grubhub. He served as head of brand and creative for the food delivery service.  

How do you make a small fortune? The old joke suggests you start with a large one. But Elon Musk isn’t laughing at that punch line, as Twitter has drastically shrunk in its valuation, at least in his eyes.

All inquiries from members of the press directed to Twitter’s official press email now receive the same automatic reply: a poop emoji.

Elon Musk has said an upcoming documentary about him is a “hit piece”.On Monday (March 6), Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney announced that he was working on the new project, which will be titled Musk. He described it as a “definitive and unvarnished examination” of the multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.Replying to a tweet about the news on Tuesday, Musk wrote simply: “It’s a hit piece.”Gibney said in a statement: “I have been working on this film, off and on, for some time and am hugely excited about it.

Gibney, who’s behind films like “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” is working on his latest production “Musk.” The Emmy- and Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker described the upcoming documentary as “a definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.” There are few different productions companies working on this project as well, including Jigsaw Productions, Closer Media, Anonymous Content, and Double Agent – who are also financing the project.News of the documentary, and Musk’s displeasure with it, comes on the same day the ]Twitter CEO apologized for publicly mocking an employee with disabilities who was unsure if he’d been let go and tweeted directly to Musk after the company’s HR department stopped communicating with him.

Elon Musk prodded advertisers “to use Twitter yourselves, and believe what you see on Twitter, not what you read in the newspapers.”

Alex Gibney, the Emmy- and Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker behind “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” will next set his sights on Elon Musk with “Musk,” described in the official announcement as “a definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.”“I have been working on this film, off and on, for some time and am hugely excited about it,” said Gibney in an official statement. “I am delighted by this extraordinary group who are working with me.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Elon Musk will be the center of a new documentary from the unflinching Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.” Already months into production, Gibney announced the project on Monday saying he was “hugely excited” about tackling Musk on film. It is described as a “definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.” Tech mogul Musk reached peak saturation in late 2022 when he completed a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, promising to upend the platform’s user experience as well as restore “balance” to its user body (including the elimination of bot accounts, which Musk has previously said ran rampant on the site).

Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has his next doc as he is currently months into the making of Musk, a definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter.