The banks which loaned Elon Musk money to help buy Twitter expect to lose $2 billion on the debt, report says

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Elon Musk celebrates a year of owning X by adding a new feature absolutely no one wants

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Elon Musk enters Twitter HQ after completing his takeover of the company, now known as X, last year.

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Can anyone save the internet? Neal Agarwal is trying, one Hampster Dance at a time.

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In Agarwal's creations, you can see an urgent attempt to resurrect an internet that was messy and unpredictable — and all the better for it.

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Jay-Z has finally settled the online debate about whether a meeting with him is better than getting $500,000

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Jay-Z's financial advice is to skip out on his advice in favor of $500,000.

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Meta sued by 33 US states in lawsuit accusing it of damaging young people's mental health with addictive Facebook and Instagram features

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Thirty-three states are suing Meta Platforms, alleging that features on Facebook and Instagram harm the mental health of young people.

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Ex-Andreessen Horowitz VC says Twitter helped build his career but he's leaving because of Elon Musk's chaotic leadership: 'It turns out that social networks are harder than rocket science'

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Benedict Evans speaking about "What matters in tech?" at Web Summit on November 02, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Instagram is desperate to make you pay to use its platform — and it's testing a new service that boosts your profile if you do

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Meta introduced verified badges for Instagram and Facebook earlier this year

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Musk adds yet more complexity to X with new paid tiers

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Elon Musk said that the new X premium tiers would be launching "soon."

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Elon Musk's next headache after Tesla's earnings flop could be users ditching X over Israel-Hamas misinformation, Nobel economist Paul Krugman says

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Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk.

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Meta apologized after Instagram's auto-translate tool added 'terrorist' to the bio of some Palestine supporters

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A woman lies on a sofa and watches a video on the social media platform Instagram on her cell phone.

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