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Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he was working "at the absolute most amount...from morning till night, seven days a week". Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he was working "at the absolute most amount...from morning till night, seven days a week" when asked about his recent acquisition of Twitter and his leadership of automaker Tesla Inc."I have too much work on my plate that is for sure," Musk said by videolink to a business conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali. Musk, who is chief executive of…

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform. Twitter's new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job.Twitter and other big social media firms have relied heavily on contractors to track hate and enforce rules against harmful content. But many of those content watchdogs have now headed out the door, first when Twitter…

In a call with employees on Thursday, Twitter Inc.’s new owner, Elon Musk, raised the specter of bankruptcy for the social-media company if it doesn’t start generating more cash. In a call with employees on Thursday, Twitter Inc.'s new owner, Elon Musk, raised the specter of bankruptcy for the social-media company if it doesn't start generating more cash.It was a surprising scenario to envision for a company he had purchased for $44 billion just two weeks earlier, in part with $13 billion of loans from Wall Street…

Theatrical guide is latest brand to leave social network. In it's last tweet, Playbill told its more than 412,000 followers that as of Nov. 11, it will no longer be active on Twitter across its five accounts and warned, regardless of verification marks, “If you see a tweet from a Twitter account that contains our name, please understand it is not us.”The theater guide that is symbolic if not synonymous with Broadway went on to explain how in recent weeks Twitter has greatly expanded its tolerance for hate, negativity…

The jump in users who have come to watch the chaos means little as advertisers flee. You know things are going badly at a company when theories swirl that its new owner is purposefully trying to run it into the ground.Deliberate or not, Elon Musk's half-baked product launches and the gutting of Twitter Inc.'s workforce has led to chaos that could prove ruinous. In the last 24 hours, he has touted potential bankruptcy and watched key executives quit. Impersonators of politicians and brands who bought blue badges for $8 …

Elon Musk has started to assemble a new group of senior leaders atop the social network. Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter Inc. two weeks ago and immediately pushed out almost all of its top executives, has started to assemble a new group of senior leaders atop the social network. The company started reshuffling teams this week following a massive round of job cuts that eliminated roughly half of its 7,000-plus workers on Nov. 4. Among managers who remained after the dust settled, a few have begun to emerge as…

Twitter Inc.’s trust and safety team, which earlier this week had been focused on the US midterm election, quickly shifted its attention to deal with a problem of its own making. Twitter Inc.'s trust and safety team, which earlier this week had been focused on the US midterm election, quickly shifted its attention to deal with a problem of its own making: a host of users impersonating major brands and celebrities, according to people familiar with the matter.New leader Elon Musk, who purchased the company two weeks ago…