Facebook Deliberately Caused Havoc in Australia to Influence New Law, Whistleblowers Say
Last year when Facebook FB -5.90% blocked news in Australia in response to potential legislation making platforms pay publishers for...
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Elon Musk Sells About $4 Billion in Tesla Stock After Agreeing to Buy Twitter
Elon Musk sold roughly $4 billion worth of Tesla Inc. stock in the two days after agreeing to buy Twitter...
Airbnb Adopts Work-From-Anywhere Approach, Including Overseas
Airbnb Inc. ABNB 4.93% is telling employees they can now work from almost anywhere in the world without a pay...
Elon Musk Criticizes Twitter Executive, Drawing Employee Backlash
Elon Musk, whose takeover bid for Twitter Inc. was accepted two days ago, continued to use the site to criticize...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Lifts Four Astronauts in Flight to Space Station
SpaceX blasted four astronauts to the International Space Station on Wednesday morning in a mission that comes as billionaire founder...
Facebook Revenue Slows but User Gains Boost Stock
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. FB -3.32% added more users than expected but posted its slowest revenue growth since going...
Alphabet Earnings Show Slowing Sales Growth on Digital-Ad Tumult
Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG -3.04% posted slower sales growth as global economic turmoil disrupted digital advertising spending.The company said...
EU Regulator Cautions Twitter on Content Moderation
A top European Union regulator cautioned that social-media giant Twitter Inc. TWTR -3.91% will need to follow the bloc’s new...
Twitter Accepts Elon Musk’s Offer to Buy Company in $44 Billion Deal
Twitter Inc. TWTR 5.66% on Monday accepted Elon Musk’s bid to take over the company, which would give the world’s...
TikTok Owner ByteDance Taps Senior Lawyer Julie Gao as CFO
SINGAPORE—ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese owner of short-video platform TikTok, appointed a senior China-focused lawyer as their new chief financial officer,...
Meet the Twitter Army of Elon Musk Superfans
Elon Musk might have more than 82 million Twitter followers, but only a handful of those can consistently grab the...
Twitter Adopts Poison Pill Plan to Block Elon Musk From Increasing Stake
Twitter adopted a poison-pill takeover defense to make it difficult for Elon Musk to increase ownership beyond 15%. The move...
Elon Musk Contends Censorship, Not Abuse, Is Twitter’s Problem
Twitter Inc. executives spent years trying to promote what they called healthier discourse on the platform, adding content moderation largely...
Elon Musk Makes $43 Billion Bid for Twitter, Says ‘Civilization’ At Stake
Elon Musk went full-on corporate raider a week into his rolling clash with Twitter Inc., offering a $43 billion bid...
Elon Musk, Again an Outsider at Twitter, Emerges as Unshackled Wild Card for Company
Elon Musk’s surprise decision not to join Twitter Inc.’s board gives the social-media company less control over its largest shareholder,...
Elon Musk Reverses Decision to Join Twitter’s Board, CEO Says
Elon Musk decided not to join Twitter Inc.’s board of directors, Chief Executive Parag Agrawal said, a dramatic reversal that...
Elon Musk Delivers First Teslas Made in Texas, Teases Future Products
AUSTIN, Texas—Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk delivered the company’s first made-in-Texas vehicles on Thursday, saying the company was entering...
Elon Musk Takes Surprise 9% Stake in Twitter, Sending Shares Higher
In 2021, billionaire CEO Elon Musk reached several milestones across Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink. WSJ reporters Rebecca Elliott and Micah...
Google-Facebook Ad Deal Is Investigated by EU, U.K.
The European Union and the U.K. opened formal antitrust investigations into whether Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -0.88% Google and Facebook FB...
Russia Targets Media Outlets With ‘Fake News’ Law, Blocks Facebook
Russia passed a law that threatens prison time for anyone publishing what authorities consider to be false information about the...
