Barbara Ortutay

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  • FILE – A workman removes a character from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building in San Francisco, July 24, 2023. One year ago, Elon Musk began transforming the social media platform into what is now known as X. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)Tech

    Twitter’s first year under Elon Musk: Ad revenue in free fall, fights with the EU over false news, and finally hiring a long-awaited CEO

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Elon Musk's XTech

    Israel-Hamas disinformation isn’t just going viral on X, Elon Musk is financially incentivizing it

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Elon MuskTech

    The man who wrote the book on Twitter says ‘It’s kind of become a fabric of society. And even Elon Musk may not be able to break it.’

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • 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

    Facebook users have just a month left to apply for part of a $725 million privacy settlement over Cambridge Analytica

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco on Nov. 18, 2022. The Los Angeles District Attorney has left Twitter due to barrage of “vicious” homophobic attacks that were not removed by the social media platform even after they were reported, the office confirmed on Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)Tech

    Los Angeles county DA’s office quits Twitter over sharp rise in ‘vicious’ homophobic attacks

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Elon MuskTech

    Elon Musk’s Twitter is so fragile it crashed from just 420,000 people trying to watch Ron DeSantis launch his campaign

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Close Up Of A Line Of High School Students Using Mobile PhonesFamily

    Social media use is taking a toll kids’ mental health. These 8 tips for parents can help

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES – MAY 3: The Supreme Court of the United States building is seen in Washington D.C., United States on May 3, 2023. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Tech

    Big Tech just dodged a major headache thanks to Supreme Court rulings that could have been very costly

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Disney theme parkRetail

    Disney theme park surge offsets bleeding in streaming as earnings match expectations, shares down slightly

    By Michelle Chapman, Barbara Ortutay, and others
  • FILE – An iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. Facebook says it is not dead. It’s not even just for “old people,” as young people have been saying for years. The social media platform born before the iPhone is approaching two decades in existence. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)Tech

    Facebook fights for relevance as Gen Z turns away: ‘I don’t even remember the last time I logged in’

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • Mark ZuckerbergTech

    Facebook was profiting off your kids’ data, FTC says

    By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
  • 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
  • Elon Musk protestTech

    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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