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Twitter Inc has restored a feature that promotes suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from some users and consumer safety groups over its removal.

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Thursday he will not sell any more Tesla stock for about two years.

A senior German official said on Thursday Twitter should join other tech firms in being directly monitored by the European Commission, saying the company's erratic behaviour under new owner Elon Musk posed a threat to free speech.

Elon Musk said Tuesday he would resign as chief executive of Twitter once he finds a replacement, in apparent response to a poll he launched that suggested users wanted him to step down.

Twitter will only allow paid Twitter Blue subscribers to vote on major policy-related decisions, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

As the poll's deadline nears its end, Musk tweeted "As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it."

The move was the latest in a growing series of controversies generated by Musk in his short tenure at the helm of Twitter

Twitter suspended the accounts of several high-profile journalists without giving any explanation on Thursday.

Tesla shares extended declines to hit their lowest level in more than two years on Wednesday, as investors including a "fanboy" of CEO Elon Musk lashed out at Musk's distraction from the electric car company following his buy of Twitter.

Elon Musk's demotion is due in large part to his highly controversial offer to take Twitter private for $44 billion.

Musk has reportedly converted a few rooms at Twitter headquarters into bedrooms.

The limits of Elon Musk's self-professed "free speech absolutism" were laid bare, critics said, when he banned rapper Kanye West from Twitter over his latest anti-Semitic outburst on Thursday.

Twitter said it has stopped enforcing a policy intended to prevent the spread of Covid misinformation, as new owner Elon Musk -- who has clashed previously with US officials over pandemic safety rules -- continues to remake its content moderation policies.

The billionaire CEO also tweeted that Apple has "threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won't tell us why."

Twitter's decision to shut down its Brussels office and the laying off of thousands of employees are drawing concerns on whether the company can comply with new tough European Union rules against illegal online content.

Twitter has proven itself a formidable ally for political activists and opposition groups, one whose reach and impact would be difficult to replace.

A blanket decision on suspended accounts could potentially alarm government authorities that are keeping a close look at Musk's handling of hateful speech

Swifties and Mötley Crüe's own fans were quick to turn on him for painting a successful female artist "whiny" for looking out for her own fans.

A coalition of civil rights activists on Monday were urging Twitter's advertisers to issue statements about pulling their ads off the social media platform after its owner Elon Musk lifted the ban on tweets by former U.S.

Musk, also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has come under fire for radical changes at the social media company, which he bought for $44 billion late last month.

Elon Musk sent a message to Twitter staff telling them that they had until Thursday to consider whether they wanted to stay on for "working long hours at high intensity" or take a severance package of three months pay.