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UPDATE, 11:10 p.m. PT: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) wrapped up the hearing on child online exploitation by calling for passage of a series of bills that would place more liability on platforms for the proliferation of such content. The bills passed out of committee…

UPDATE, 6: 25 PM: One day after Taylor Swift kind of took over the AFC Championship game between the victorious Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens, X has made it possible to once again search for the superstar on the Elon Musk-owned platform. Earlier on the weekend, X pulled the plug on…

Elon Musk’s X/Twitter is back up after going down tonight all over the world. The usually reactive owner of the struggling social media platform hasn’t said anything about what happened or why, but for users it was certainly like someone pulled the plug for nearly an hour late Wednesday…

Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is calling for users to stand by them after media companies pulled their ad dollars out over antisemitic posts being served next to advertisements on the network. Yaccarino took to X to share data about the ads served and…

Despite Elon Musk’s vow to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters the “split second” that courts opened today, the X/Twitter owner’s legal action has yet to materialize. Meanwhile, with a number of major advertisers on the sidelines over concerns about antisemitism on the platform, CEO…

UPDATED, 7:40 PM: After a day that saw a dozen major advertisers put any spending on X/Twitter on hold over antisemitic amplification by Elon Musk, the man himself tweeted a seemingly not-so-subtile dig at those companies. Promoting X/Twitter’s Premium service, the social media platform owner…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino has responded to European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton's letter to her boss Elon Musk calling on him to act swiftly to remove posts from the platform spreading disinformation around the Israel-Hamas conflict. Breton, who as E.U. Commissioner for the Internal Market has…

Linda Yaccarino spoke glowingly of Elon Musk, said X will turn a profit in early 2024, and insisted the platform formerly known as Twitter has made major progress in reversing lagging metrics in her 100 days as CEO. In an interview at Vox Media's annual CODE conference, she pushed back on the…

Mark Marshall, a nearly 10-year veteran of NBCUniversal, has been promoted to Chairman of Global Advertising and Partnerships. The elevation follows a hectic period last May when Marshall took on new duties on short notice at the NBCU upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall. Marshall was…

X, formerly known as Twitter, said it will start accepting political ads (for the first time since 2019) as the rebranded social media platform owned by Elon Musk promised transparency and "robust screening processes." "Building on our commitment to free expression, we are also going to allow…

The glaring X sign on top of the former Twitter HQ in San Francisco is gone for now, but Elon Musk is determined to light up an anti-hate group for allegedly cramping his revenue stream style. In a breach of contract and more lawsuit filed today in federal court, the billionaire's X Corp. has gone…

Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, the digital platform formerly known as Twitter, told employees they are “writing history” with the stunning overhaul of the well-established brand. In an email to employees obtained by Deadline (subject line: “X: Our Next Big Impression”), Yaccarino said Twitter “made a…