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FUERSTENWALDE, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 03: Tesla head Elon Musk arrives to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin on September 03, 2020 near Gruenheide, Germany. Musk is currently in Germany where he met with vaccine maker CureVac on Tuesday, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for producing RNA vaccines, as well as German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier yesterday. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

The people have spoken—or maybe not: Elon Musk’s use of Twitter polls for key decisions invites manipulation

By Davey Alba and Bloomberg

Elon Musk

Elon Musk shuts down Twitter Spaces for the entire social media platform after arguing with journalists on one Twitter Space

By Vlad Savov, Davey Alba, and others

GRUENHEIDE, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 03: Tesla head Elon Musk talks to the press as he arrives to to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin on September 03, 2020 near Gruenheide, Germany. Musk is currently in Germany where he met with vaccine maker CureVac on Tuesday, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for producing RNA vaccines, as well as German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier yesterday. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ Twitter culture is backfiring. So many workers are quitting that the operations are at risk, sources say

By Kurt Wagner, Davey Alba, and others

GRUENHEIDE, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 03: Tesla head Elon Musk talks to the press as he arrives to to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin on September 03, 2020 near Gruenheide, Germany. Musk is currently in Germany where he met with vaccine maker CureVac on Tuesday, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for producing RNA vaccines, as well as German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier yesterday. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Elon Musk softens his remote-work mandate at Twitter after many staffers opt to quit rather than continue in his ‘hardcore’ office environment

By Kurt Wagner, Davey Alba, and others

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Tesla Inc., listens as Jim Bridenstine, administrator of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), not pictured, speaks during an event at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. SpaceXs Elon Musk and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine staged a public show of support for one another at the rocket companys headquarters Thursday, weeks after the two traded barbs over the closely held companys delayed efforts to fly astronauts for the first time. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Elon Musk warns that a Twitter bankruptcy is possible after telling employees that ‘difficult times’ are ahead

By Kurt Wagner, Edward Ludlow, and others

Facebook Chief Executive Officer and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, leaving the Merrion Hotel in Dublin after meeting with Irish politicians to discuss regulation of social media, transparrency in political advertising and the safety of young people and vulnerable adults.<br />
On Tuesday, April 2, 2019, in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Meta is making millions off political ads from fake ‘pink slime’ newsrooms

By Davey Alba and Bloomberg

Sundar Pichai

Alphabet’s health tech company raises $1 billion to counter Amazon’s One Medical acquisition in a growing health tech ‘arms race’

By Davey Alba, Julia Love, and others

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., speaks during the CEO Summit of the Americas hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles, California, US, on Thursday, June 9, 2022. President Biden announced what he called the “Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity” as he opened the summit yesterday, a series of non-binding agreements that he said would help the Western Hemisphere’s nations rebound more quickly from the pandemic and share in US growth. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Google earnings show that it may weather the ad apocalypse far better than smaller rivals Snap and Twitter

By Davey Alba and Bloomberg

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 10: Abortion-rights demonstrators march to the U.S. Capitol from the Supreme Court building on May 10, 2022 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats plan take up a bill May 11 that would codify abortion rights in federal law, but it is all but certain to come up short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican fillibuster. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Abortion misinformation surges on Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok after Supreme Court decision leak

By Davey Alba and Bloomberg