Mary Altaffer/AP Attorney Michael Avenatti fired a warning shot in response to President Donald Trump’s tweets in which he called Avenatti’s client, adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, “Horseface.” “I’m a father to two daughters … how do you tell your kids to look up to the president of the United States when he behaves in this […]
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Chris Evans Says He Didn’t Spoil ‘Avengers 4’ In A Tweet
Did Chris Evans accidentally spoil Avengers 4 when he recently tweeted about how he was saying goodbye to the character of Captain America? No! Well, at least that’s what he wants us to think. Evans recently appeared at a comic convention in Chicago to clarify his comment and reassure fans that he did not, in […]
SEC Brushes Off Elon Musk’s Tweet, Signs Off on Original Settlement
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s brilliant idea to call the Securities and Exchange Commission the “Shortseller Enrichment Commission” in a recent tweet did not land the impulsive executive in any additional hot water. The SEC, which decided that removing Musk from the chairman’s position and fining both him and the company $ 20 million was sufficient […]
Tesla, Musk pay $40M to settle Tweet charges, Elon resigns as chairman
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Government/Legal,Green,Tesla Musk pays fine, ousted as Tesla chairman. Continue reading Tesla, Musk pay $ 40M to settle Tweet charges, Elon resigns as chairman Tesla, Musk pay $ 40M to settle Tweet charges, Elon resigns as chairman originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 18:50:00 EDT. Please […]
How Trump Could Trigger Armageddon With a Tweet
Times have changed. The president is being held in check by terrified aides who are trying to keep his worst impulses in check. But disaster may only be a tweet away. Here’s how it could happen. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b8f13108494612d7f7dbf49/master/pass/Trump-TweetWar-1024542414-w.jpg
Jemele Hill and ESPN to Part Ways, One Year After Her Anti-Trump Tweet
Jemele Hill and ESPN are parting ways as of Sept. 1, nearly a year after the commentator got swept up in a two-pronged social-media imbroglio that resulted in her brief suspension. As first reported by “Origins” podcaster James Andrew Miller, the “amicable” split involves a buyout of Hill’s remaining contract, and came on the heels […]
Amazon paying employees to tweet nice things about warehouse working conditions
After a series of horror stories about Amazon workers peeing into bottles to avoid missing their targets, a number of accounts popped up on Twitter praising the company. TechCrunch discovered that all the accounts had Amazon’s smile logo as backgrounds, identical structures to their bios and the title ‘FC Ambassador’ in their name, followed by […]
“A huge outlier”: Musk’s Tesla buyout tweet could get him in legal trouble
Enlarge (credit: Getty / Aurich) Elon Musk left traders scratching their heads last week after tweeting that he was thinking about taking Tesla private for $ 420 per share—and had “funding secured” to do so. Musk finally cleared up some of the confusion on Monday, publishing a blog post saying that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund […]
A Tweet About Hacking During Defcon Gets a Google Engineer in Trouble
Matt Linton says he was asked to leave Caesars Palace Thursday night after a tweet about an “attack” was reported to the police. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b6db4b6f6d47809bff3a5d8/master/pass/caesars-458582883.jpg
Trump heaps praise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in late-night tweet, suggests another meeting could happen ‘soon’
Kevin Lim/The Strait Times/Handout/Getty President Donald Trump in a late-night tweet praised North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after his regime provided the US with what are believed to be the remains of US service members who died during the Korean War era. Trump also appeared to suggest that there could be a second meeting […]