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X (formerly Twitter)

X is a real-time online social networking platform, originally founded in 2006 as Twitter. The company was purchased by Elon Musk in April 2022, and in July 2023 he rebranded the website X, although the site continues to be coloquially referred to as Twitter.

Chairman / President

Elon Musk

CEO / Managing Director

Linda Yaccarino

CFO / Finance Director

Jack Dorsey

Industry

Internet

Website

twitter.com

Headquarters address

San Francisco, California, United States

Stock Code

NYSE:TWTR

Year founded

2010

Elon Musk has been ordered to face questions related to a widening investigation into the platform, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on ⁠Tuesday. Photo: AFP

France

France raids X offices, summons Musk over child pornography and deepfake probe

Paris prosecutors issue ‘voluntary interview’ summons to Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino for April 20 and quit platform in protest.

3 Feb 2026 - 8:40PM

SpaceX

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX in record-setting deal

3 Feb 2026 - 11:00AM

European Union

EU opens probe into Musk’s Grok over sexual AI deepfakes

26 Jan 2026 - 7:50PM

Elon Musk

Musk’s xAI sued over Grok deepfakes – this time, by mother of his child

Ashley St Clair, mother of Musk’s 13th child, said that in one photo, an image of her at 14 was altered to show her in a bikini.

17 Jan 2026 - 9:27AM

X owner Elon Musk and Ashley St Clair. Photo: X/stclairashley

Britain

Musk blasts ‘prison island’ UK in showdown over Grok AI sexual images

The billionaire accused the government of being ‘fascist’ after it threatened to ban X over the deepfake photos.

11 Jan 2026 - 10:25AM

Britain

Will X be banned in the UK? Elon Musk hits back at shutdown warnings

Despite an outcry over AI abuse images, Musk called the warnings ‘censorship’ and reposted threats to sanction Britain if X is blocked.

10 Jan 2026 - 9:41AM

Gun violence in the US

How right-wing misinformation hurt the Brown University shooting investigation

Unfounded claims that the gunman was a Palestinian student flooded social media, complicating the probe.

20 Dec 2025 - 3:18AM

Law enforcement agents take part in the search for the Brown University shooter in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

Australia

‘#seeyouwhenim16’: Australia’s social media ban for children takes effect

PM Albanese called the ban, which is being closely watched by other nations considering similar measures, ‘a proud day’ for families.

10 Dec 2025 - 3:58PMvideocam

United States

EU’s US$140 million fine on X riles Rubio’s deputy, stoking tensions

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said the bloc’s regulatory stance could hurt shared security and values.

7 Dec 2025 - 12:50PM

European Union

EU hits Musk’s X with US$140 million fine, risking Trump’s ire

US Vice-President J.D. Vance fired a warning against ‘attacking’ US firms through ‘censorship’ before the penalty was even made public.

6 Dec 2025 - 1:32AM

Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washingto in November. Photo: AFP

Tencent

Elon Musk reiterates aim to transform X into a ‘WeChat++’ super app

Users ‘live their life on WeChat in China’ and there is no equivalent app elsewhere in the world, the entrepreneur says.

3 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek releases first open AI model with gold-level scores at maths olympiad

‘Imagine owning the brain of one of the best mathematicians in the world for free,’ Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says in a post on X.

29 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM

United States

ChatGPT and X among sites disrupted in worldwide Cloudflare outage

The company, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, says a fix has been deployed and services restored.

19 Nov 2025 - 1:57AM

US-China relations

Hasan Piker’s China tour draws fire after viral Tiananmen police encounter

Critics say Piker’s praise for China and on-camera run-in highlight risks for Western creators in a sensitive media environment.

29 Nov 2025 - 1:18AM

American political commentator and live-streamer Hasan Piker was stopped by a police officer while waiting to watch the daily sunset flag-raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square. Photo: Screenshot from Twitch

Artificial intelligence

China’s Moonshot AI launches new model lauded as No 1 among open-source systems

Kimi K2 Thinking sets ‘new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities’, Moonshot AI researchers say.

8 Nov 2025 - 9:00AM

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 Thinking outperforms closed-source models GPT-5 from OpenAI and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in several benchmarks. Photo: Shutterstock

United States

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to rival ‘left-biased’ Wikipedia

The website’s content is generated by artificial intelligence and generative AI assistant Grok.

29 Oct 2025 - 3:29AMvideocam

Crime

UK far-right figure Tommy Robinson back in court over refusal to give phone PIN

Robinson had refused a police order to unlock his phone, claiming it contained videos related to his journalism work.

14 Oct 2025 - 10:36AM

Icons and Influencers

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14 Oct 2025 - 6:00AM

Caitlin Covington, the face of “Christian girl autumn”, in a season-ready outfit in 2022. Photo: @cmcoving/Instagram

Donald Trump

YouTube to pay US$24.5 million to settle Trump account suspension lawsuit

Trump brought the legal action against the company after his account was suspended following the US Capitol riots in January 2021.

30 Sep 2025 - 7:51AMvideocam

United States

‘Censoring me’: Musk’s Grok AI suspended from X after Gaza ‘genocide’ claims

The suspension came after an update loosened Grok’s filters, causing it to respond bluntly on topics like Gaza and triggering flags for ‘hate speech’.

13 Aug 2025 - 5:51PM

Computer hackers

Hacked Elmo X account called for extermination of Jews, US media reports

Antisemitic posts and messages calling Trump a ‘puppet’ of Netanyahu were shared on Sesame Street character’s account by an ‘unknown hacker’.

15 Jul 2025 - 2:00AM

The Sesame Street character Elmo. Photo: AP

United States

Musk’s xAI apologises after Grok chatbot praises Hitler

The company blamed the offensive posts on a software update meant to make the artificial intelligence assistant act more like a human.

13 Jul 2025 - 3:04AMvideocam

Grok, which Elon Musk promised would be an “edgy” truthteller following its launch in 2023, has been mired in controversy. Photo illustration: dpa

Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk unveils xAI’s updated chatbot, Grok 4, after antisemitism controversy

The world’s wealthiest person says Grok 4 is ‘smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously’.

10 Jul 2025 - 4:21PM

Elon Musk

Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Musk’s X, amid Grok AI chatbot scandal

The move came after what she called ‘two incredible years’, with one analyst saying Yaccarino ‘lasted longer than many expected’.

10 Jul 2025 - 1:56AMvideocam

Japan

Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who murdered and dismembered 9

Takahiro Shiraishi lured his mostly young, female victims through social media, dismembering their bodies after killing them.

27 Jun 2025 - 10:38AM

Takahiro Shiraishi leaving a police station in 2017. File photo: Kyodo via AP

United States

Elon Musk’s xAI burning through US$1 billion a month as costs pile up

The artificial intelligence start-up is seeking to raise US$9.3 billion, with plans to spend over half of it in just the next three months.

18 Jun 2025 - 3:05AMvideocam

Elon Musk’s start-up, which is responsible for the AI-powered chatbot Grok, expects to burn through about US$13 billion over the course of 2025. Photo illustration: AFP

Icons and Influencers

Meet Tami Radabaugh, the Fox News alum working with Pete Hegseth

Radabaugh’s State of Grace Media is billed as ‘a reimagined media company founded on faith’ – the mother of 2 also says she’s working on a faith-based docuseries.

4 Jun 2025 - 4:00AM

United States

US to scrutinise visas for officials, targeting those ‘responsible for censorship’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans’ social media posts.

28 May 2025 - 11:48PMvideocam

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X (formerly Twitter)

France raids X offices, summons Musk over child pornography and deepfake probe

Paris prosecutors issue ‘voluntary interview’ summons to Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino for April 20 and quit platform in protest.

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX in record-setting deal

EU opens probe into Musk’s Grok over sexual AI deepfakes

Musk’s xAI sued over Grok deepfakes – this time, by mother of his child

Ashley St Clair, mother of Musk’s 13th child, said that in one photo, an image of her at 14 was altered to show her in a bikini.

Musk blasts ‘prison island’ UK in showdown over Grok AI sexual images

The billionaire accused the government of being ‘fascist’ after it threatened to ban X over the deepfake photos.

Will X be banned in the UK? Elon Musk hits back at shutdown warnings

Despite an outcry over AI abuse images, Musk called the warnings ‘censorship’ and reposted threats to sanction Britain if X is blocked.

How right-wing misinformation hurt the Brown University shooting investigation

Unfounded claims that the gunman was a Palestinian student flooded social media, complicating the probe.

‘#seeyouwhenim16’: Australia’s social media ban for children takes effect

PM Albanese called the ban, which is being closely watched by other nations considering similar measures, ‘a proud day’ for families.

EU’s US$140 million fine on X riles Rubio’s deputy, stoking tensions

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said the bloc’s regulatory stance could hurt shared security and values.

EU hits Musk’s X with US$140 million fine, risking Trump’s ire

US Vice-President J.D. Vance fired a warning against ‘attacking’ US firms through ‘censorship’ before the penalty was even made public.

Elon Musk reiterates aim to transform X into a ‘WeChat++’ super app

Users ‘live their life on WeChat in China’ and there is no equivalent app elsewhere in the world, the entrepreneur says.

DeepSeek releases first open AI model with gold-level scores at maths olympiad

‘Imagine owning the brain of one of the best mathematicians in the world for free,’ Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says in a post on X.

ChatGPT and X among sites disrupted in worldwide Cloudflare outage

The company, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, says a fix has been deployed and services restored.

Hasan Piker’s China tour draws fire after viral Tiananmen police encounter

Critics say Piker’s praise for China and on-camera run-in highlight risks for Western creators in a sensitive media environment.

China’s Moonshot AI launches new model lauded as No 1 among open-source systems

Kimi K2 Thinking sets ‘new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities’, Moonshot AI researchers say.

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to rival ‘left-biased’ Wikipedia

The website’s content is generated by artificial intelligence and generative AI assistant Grok.

UK far-right figure Tommy Robinson back in court over refusal to give phone PIN

Robinson had refused a police order to unlock his phone, claiming it contained videos related to his journalism work.

.css-sioo19{color:#c79a00;}Explainer | Meet Caitlin Covington, the woman synonymous with ‘Christian girl autumn’

The woman behind the meme has given us yearly autumn content since 2019 – and she is neither Republican nor homophobic, as the internet believed.

YouTube to pay US$24.5 million to settle Trump account suspension lawsuit

Trump brought the legal action against the company after his account was suspended following the US Capitol riots in January 2021.

‘Censoring me’: Musk’s Grok AI suspended from X after Gaza ‘genocide’ claims

The suspension came after an update loosened Grok’s filters, causing it to respond bluntly on topics like Gaza and triggering flags for ‘hate speech’.

Hacked Elmo X account called for extermination of Jews, US media reports

Antisemitic posts and messages calling Trump a ‘puppet’ of Netanyahu were shared on Sesame Street character’s account by an ‘unknown hacker’.

Musk’s xAI apologises after Grok chatbot praises Hitler

The company blamed the offensive posts on a software update meant to make the artificial intelligence assistant act more like a human.

Elon Musk unveils xAI’s updated chatbot, Grok 4, after antisemitism controversy

The world’s wealthiest person says Grok 4 is ‘smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously’.

Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Musk’s X, amid Grok AI chatbot scandal

The move came after what she called ‘two incredible years’, with one analyst saying Yaccarino ‘lasted longer than many expected’.

Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who murdered and dismembered 9

Takahiro Shiraishi lured his mostly young, female victims through social media, dismembering their bodies after killing them.

Elon Musk’s xAI burning through US$1 billion a month as costs pile up

The artificial intelligence start-up is seeking to raise US$9.3 billion, with plans to spend over half of it in just the next three months.

Meet Tami Radabaugh, the Fox News alum working with Pete Hegseth

Radabaugh’s State of Grace Media is billed as ‘a reimagined media company founded on faith’ – the mother of 2 also says she’s working on a faith-based docuseries.

US to scrutinise visas for officials, targeting those ‘responsible for censorship’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US will refuse visas to foreign officials who block Americans’ social media posts.

Explainer | Meet Caitlin Covington, the woman synonymous with ‘Christian girl autumn’