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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

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gestures as he steps on stage during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in New York in October 2024. Photo: AFP,

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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

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

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Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX in record-setting deal

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida in February 2025. Photo: Reuters

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

Brussels targets X with a new probe into ‘digital undressing’, vowing to protect women and children from illegal AI content.

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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

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

Billionaire Elon Musk’s xAI operates Grok. Photo: AFP

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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.

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Elon Musk’s website X faces the threat of being shut down in Britain over deepfake pornography and child abuse images. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS

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

7 Dec 2025 - 12:50PM

The X fine, announced on Friday, is the first significant enforcement action under the EU’s Digital Services Act. Photo: AFP

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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.

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

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DeepSeek on Thursday made its Math-V2 open-source AI model widely available. Photo: Shutterstock

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

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

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Tech CEO Elon Musk attends a memorial service for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, in September. Photo: Reuters

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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.

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British far-right activist Tommy Robinson holds a mobile phone as he arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Photo: AFP

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X (formerly Twitter)

Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX IPO

The company’s shares hit US$160.95 each, propelling the world’s richest person’s fortune to US$1.1 trillion.

Chinese propagandists stoking dissent over Trump tariffs, data centres: OpenAI

Hundreds join protest led by India’s viral ‘cockroach’ youth movement

Pair charged in US under new law for creating AI celebrity porn

Arrests mark some of the earliest prosecutions under the Take It Down Act as the US cracks down on explicit ‘deepfakes’.

Musk joins Trump’s Beijing delegation as a ‘natural bridge’ for trade

Gigafactory stakes and a push for self-driving software approval cast the billionaire as a key US envoy while seemingly sealing a reconciliation with Trump.

Musk uses slurs to mock French prosecutors investigating X

Investigators are probing the US billionaire’s social media platform over political interference, Holocaust denial and sexual deepfakes.

French prosecutors open judicial investigation into Elon Musk and X

Move follows tech billionaire’s failure to attend an April summons over possible abuses on his social media network X.

From ‘probing minds’ to verified account: how Musk’s stance on TikTok shifted

The billionaire’s surprising return to TikTok reveals his evolving tech diplomacy, with his account quickly gaining 120,000 followers.

Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders, US jury finds

The world’s richest person could be ordered to pay out as much as US$2.6 billion in damages.

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

The deal is the biggest M&A transaction of all time, with a combined company valuation of US$1.25 trillion.

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

Brussels targets X with a new probe into ‘digital undressing’, vowing to protect women and children from illegal AI content.

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-1f6sr3w{color:#727272;}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.

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