Barbara Ortutay

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  • The Twitter profile page belonging to Elon Musk is seen on an Apple iPhone mobile phone in this photo illustration Warsaw, Poland on 21 September, 2022. Also showing a Tweet by Musk hitting out former US Secretary of Labor Rovert Reich over emeral mine accusations. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Tech

    Elon Musk reverses course on charging governments $50,000 for a critical Twitter tool after New York’s subway said no way

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
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    Elon Musk, famous maker of 420 jokes, just made Twitter even friendlier to weed ads

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device, on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday, April 20, 2023, to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)Tech

    Musk’s Twitter drops labels calling global media groups like NPR ‘government-funded’ or ‘state-affiliated’

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Blue check mark logos on a heap on a table.Tech

    Twitter begins the blue-check apocalypse as it does away with verification—but you can still pay for one

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  • Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. The Federal Trade Commission claims Meta’s plan to buy the competitor will give it an unfair advantage in the burgeoning VR market. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    How Facebook users can apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • TwitterTech

    Twitter doesn’t have a policy against deadnaming transgender people anymore

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., departs court in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Investors suing Tesla and Musk argue that his August 2018 tweets about taking Tesla private with funding secured were indisputably false and cost them billions of dollars by spurring wild swings in Tesla’s stock price. Photographer: Marlena Sloss/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Twitter removes posts promoting a transgender rights rally because its name ‘does not imply peaceful protest’

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • A teenager taps the TikTok logo on a smartphone.Tech

    New Utah law shielding teens from TikTok and Instagram faces a big problem: How do you enforce it?

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco, Dec. 8, 2022. Twitter announced a new policy prohibiting “violent speech” on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, though overall it sounds very similar to the rules against violent threats it had on the books long before Elon Musk took over. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)Tech

    Twitter’s new policy on violent speech looks a lot like its old policy on violent speech

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Members of a search and rescue team work on a collapsed structure after the earthquake in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. Starting Monday, a crucial Twitter tool known as Application Developer Interface, used by software developers to comb the platform for calls for help from earthquake victims, may be accessible only by paying a $100 monthly fee. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)Tech

    Twitter is about to start charging $100 for a critical research tool earthquake rescuers depend on in Turkey and Syria

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Mark Zuckerberg.Tech

    After a victorious battle with the FTC, Mark Zuckerberg finally gets to buy that VR startup

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai at Lazienki Palace in Warsaw, Poland on January 21, 2019 (Photo by Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Tech

    Feds sue Google for trying to ‘neutralize or eliminate’ digital ad rivals as part of a growing crackdown on Big Tech

    By Eric Tucker, Barbara Ortutay, and others
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    Elon Musk takes the stand at his trial and says he thought he had Saudi backing when he sent his infamous Tesla tweet

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk speaks during the unveiling of the all-electric battery-powered Tesla’s Cybertruck at Tesla Design Center in Hawthorne, California on November 21, 2019. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP)Tech

    Elon Musk’s Twitter failed to pay $136,000 in rent for one of its offices, landlord alleges in a lawsuit

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Mark ZuckerbergTech

    Mark Zuckerberg just took the witness stand in a trial over the future of virtual reality

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press