Kurt Wagner

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Kurt Wagner’s “Battle for the Bird.” Simon & Schuster

Bob Iger, Marc Benioff, and the billion-dollar deal that never was: The untold story of Disney’s battle for Twitter

Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform, attends a symposium on fighting antisemitism titled ‘Never Again : Lip Service or Deep Conversation’ in Krakow, Poland on January 22nd, 2024. Musk, who was invited to Poland by the European Jewish Association (EJA) has visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp earlier that day, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s X vows 100-person content moderation office in Texas days before CEO to testify on child safety online

By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 17: Sheryl Sandberg attends the 2022 Women’s Media Awards at Mandarin Oriental Hotel on November 17, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Meta’s board, cutting her last tie after joining in 2008 as Mark Zuckerberg’s chief lieutenant

By Alex Barinka, Kurt Wagner, and others

ROME, ITALY – 2023/12/16: South African entrepreneur Elon Musk speaks during Atreju 2023 event organized by Fratelli d’Italia. (Photo by Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s X just made a major reversal by restoring news headlines in user posts after months of complaints

By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg

Elon Musk speaks during Atreju 2023 event

Elon Musk tells Cathie Wood he wouldn’t recommend that companies go public ‘unless they really have to’

By Emily Graffeo, Kurt Wagner, and others

X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk gestures during an in-conversation event with Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on November 2, 2023, following the UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth / POOL / AFP) (Photo by KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s X is seeing ad revenue plunge by half from prior years and is expected to bring in just $2.5B this year

By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg

Elon Musk speaks during a summit in New York.

Elon Musk seeks to raise $1 billion for xAI, the ‘rebellious’ competitor to OpenAI

By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg

Signage outside the Meta store in Burlingame, California, US, on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Meta Platforms Inc.’s shares soared 19% in early trading after Chief Executive Officer Zuckerberg announced plans to make the social media giant leaner, more efficient and more decisive. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Meta is planning 1,000s more layoffs—as soon as this week

By Sarah Frier, Edward Ludlow, and others

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., speaks during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Zuckerberg unveiled his company’s newest virtual-reality headset, the Meta Quest Pro, the latest foray into the world of high-end VR devices that Meta Platforms hopes will entice creators and working professionals to adopt its vision for a virtual future. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Mark Zuckerberg responds to the ChatGPT A.I. race with a new offering from Meta: Meet LLaMA

By Kurt Wagner, Dina Bass, and others

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., right, departs from 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 Images

Meta is bumping Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security spending by $4 million just weeks after mass layoffs

By Aisha Counts, Kurt Wagner, and others

Mark Zuckerberg

Meta is ‘flattening’ its workforce and telling high-level managers to transition to a new role or get out as Mark Zuckerberg leans in to his ‘Year of Efficiency’

By Sarah Frier, Kurt Wagner, and others

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta

Meta’s after-hours stock price rockets after Mark Zuckerberg announces plans to trim layers of middle management and flatten org structure

By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 31: Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a New Years event at his Mar-a-Lago home on December 31, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump continues to run for a second term as the President of the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram ban for inciting the Jan. 6 riot is lifted: ‘We don’t want to get in the way of open debate on our platforms’

By Kurt Wagner, Mark Niquette, and others

Twitter cuts workers addressing hate speech and trust and safety as Elon Musk’s chaotic revamp continues

By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg

Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks to media as he arrives to visit the construction site of the future US electric car giant Tesla, on September 03, 2020 in Gruenheide near Berlin. – Tesla builds a compound at the site in Gruenheide in Brandenburg for its first European “Gigafactory” near Berlin. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Twitter workers laid off by Elon Musk 2 months ago still haven’t received their severance pay and are now demanding answers

By Kurt Wagner, Josh Eidelson, and others