Elon Musk Forces Twitter Algorithm Change to Boost His Tweets on Users’ Feeds (Report)

Endeavor Group Holdings CEO Ari Emanuel’s longstanding ties with Elon Musk led to the company investing a “small amount” in Twitter, a source has confirmed to Deadline.

The children of the Kardashian-Jenner clan have spent most of their lives in the public eye.

Alex Gibney, the Emmy- and Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker behind “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” will next set his sights on Elon Musk with “Musk,” described in the official announcement as “a definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.”“I have been working on this film, off and on, for some time and am hugely excited about it,” said Gibney in an official statement. “I am delighted by this extraordinary group who are working with me.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Elon Musk will be the center of a new documentary from the unflinching Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.” Already months into production, Gibney announced the project on Monday saying he was “hugely excited” about tackling Musk on film. It is described as a “definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.” Tech mogul Musk reached peak saturation in late 2022 when he completed a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, promising to upend the platform’s user experience as well as restore “balance” to its user body (including the elimination of bot accounts, which Musk has previously said ran rampant on the site).

Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has his next doc as he is currently months into the making of Musk, a definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter. 

Twitter users have complained that the social media website is down, with many upon to open links or pictures.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Twitter was experiencing technical issues on Monday, showing users an odd error message if they tried to click on links to third-party websites. “Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information,” an error message read for users who tried to visit web links.

Elon Musk said he was “rolling on the floor laughing my ass off” at a BBC investigation, which showed that trolling, hate speech, and disinformation have grown on Twitter since his $43B takeover.

Elon Musk continues to be the richest person in the world, despite briefly losing the No. 1 spot for over two months.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk-owned Twitter, seeking to reassure users and advertisers that it’s taking a hardline stand against violent speech, released an update to its policies that more explicitly bans certain types of threats. According to the updated policy, released Feb. 28, Twitter users “may not wish, hope, or express desire for harm. This includes (but is not limited to) hoping for others to die, suffer illnesses, tragic incidents, or experience other physically harmful consequences.” Previously, “wishes of harm” were not actionable under the company’s violent threats policy, which was last updated in March 2019. In addition, Twitter’s updated Violent Speech policy bans “inciting others to commit atrocity crimes including crimes against humanity, war crimes or genocide,” which also includes using coded language (aka “dog whistles”) to indirectly incite violence. Furthermore, the updated policy — in addition to prohibiting threats to physically harm others — also bans threatening to “damage civilian homes and shelters, or infrastructure that is essential to daily, civic, or business activities.”

Twitter went down on Wednesday morning, with thousands of users reporting outages.

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world again.

Twitter has fired at least 200 more employees, or 10% of its already dramatically scaled-down, workforce, according to press reports, as owner-CEO Elon Musk continues to slash costs to make his $44 billion acquisition viable.

Woody Harrelson divided Saturday Night Live viewers over his monologue as the actor hosted the NBC sketch show for the fifth time.

—particularly the bit in the middle where she tries to shout out all the female nominees by name in a 40-second rap verse—has gone viral since she performed at the February 19 ceremony. And the commentary on Twitter has reached such a pitch that DeBose resorted to deactivating her whole account. The performance, which included renditions of “Sisters are Doin’ It For Themselves” and “We Are Family” at either end of the rap verse, was clearly intended as a tribute to the large number of women who were nominated at the awards.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Here is Elon Musk’s latest cash-generating idea for Twitter: Next month, the service will restrict access to the simplest form of two-factor authentication — which provides a second layer of security to confirm a user’s login credentials — to Twitter Blue subscribers. Twitter on Friday announced that as of March 20, 2023, only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to use text messaging as their two-factor authentication method to verify their username and password when they log in to a new device. Non-subscribers will still be able to enable two-factor authentication (or 2FA in tech lingo) using either an authentication app like Google Authenticator or a physical security key.

Maye Musk was one of the highlights of New York Fashion Week. The model and mother of Elon Musk made an appearance at The Blonds fashion show in New York this past week, wearing a glittery and super cool suit that resulted in an alien-like look.