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‘Companies facing bankruptcy do this’: Internet irate after Elon Musk led-Twitter reportedly slashed parental leaves The information was revealed through internal company documents cited by the New York Post Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been implementing various changes to the platform and policies since taking over the company last year. The latest change that has caused an uproar among employees and the public is the reduction of paid parental leave from 20 weeks to just 14 days for those employees who work in states in the US that do not have a paid leave policy. The information was revealed through internal company documents cited by the New York Post. The reduction in paid parental leave has received severe criticism from many quarters. As per a report in the New York Post, there is no federal law in the United States mandating paid parental leave. However, the Family and Medical Leave Act allows for "unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons'' for up to 12 weeks for certain employees. Additionally, 12 states provide paid family and medical leave of some kind. California allows up to eight weeks of paid leave under state law, while both New York and New

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says “it all went south” when Elon Musk purchased the social media company, saying Musk’s timing was poor and that he should have backed out of the deal.Dorsey was questioned Friday by users on his new upstart app “Bluesky” on whether he still believed Musk was the ideal owner for Twitter. Business Insider reported that Dorsey issued a flat denial.“No. Nor do I think he acted right after realizing his timing was bad,” Dorsey wrote.When the $44 billion deal appeared to be falling through, Twitter’s board threatened to sue Musk to force the deal. Dorsey said the board’s effort to force the sale was also a bad idea.“It all went south,” Dorsey wrote.“If Elon or anyone wanted to buy the company, all they had to do was name a price that the board felt was better than what the company could do independently,” he continued.Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square, attends the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. (Photo by MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images) (MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images)“This is true for every public company. Was I optimistic?

NEW YORK (AP) — Shortly after midnight Thursday, several New York City subway trains slowed to a crawl as emergency crews tended to a person discovered on the tracks in Manhattan.The delays were flagged for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s rail control center, where a customer service agent typed up a straightforward warning for early-morning riders to consider alternate routes.But while the message was quickly posted to the MTA’s website and app, the alert never made it to the subway system’s Twitter account, with its 1 million followers. The agency’s access to the platform’s back-end, officials soon learned, had been suspended by Twitter without warning.It was the second such breakdown in two weeks and the reaction inside the MTA was swift. By Thursday afternoon, senior executives agreed to cease publishing service alerts to the platform altogether.The decision put the country’s largest transportation network among a growing number of accounts, from National Public Radio to Elton John, who have reduced their Twitter presence or left the platform since its takeover by Elon Musk.It also caught riders, and some in the MTA, off guard, even as at least one other transit agency considered following suit.“The train schedule is always messed up. It’s convenient

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The Eagles landed two of the NFL draft’s top 15 players on Thursday night, and it is even sweeter after Howie Roseman drafted the fourth former Georgia Bulldogs defender. Jalen Carter was the pick at No. 9, and after patiently waiting, Philadelphia’s GM doubled back and landed one of the top edge rushers in the country with Nolan Smith. pic.twitter.com/KJdDQBuWMC — Benjamin Solak (@BenjaminSolak) April 28, 2023 Social media reacted to everything, and Twitter exploded when four best friends were reunited. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports The Bulldogs are loaded again in 2023, and their 2024 Pro Day will be the place to be. Most likely Eagles 1st-round picks in 2024: Brock Bowers, TE, GeorgiaJavon Bullard, S, GeorgiaXavier Truss, OL, GeorgiaKamari Lassiter, CB, GeorgiaKendall Milton, RB, Georgia — Reuben Frank (@RoobNBCS) April 28, 2023 Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Smith looked smooth in the all-white suit. It's all Georgia Bulldogs in Philly 🦅 🐶 Eagles select Nolan Smith with the 30th overall pick #NFLDraft pic.twitter.com/Qa6kgedobj — NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) April 28, 2023 (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) Smith is an insane edge rusher when healthy. If you are new and haven't seen this, this is why

bluesky-RS-1800 - Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesImagine a distant future in which humans compete for passenger seats on a spaceship headed away from this dying Earth to a more habitable planet. That’s more or less the current scene on Twitter — a slowly collapsing social network — as people scramble for access to Bluesky, a decentralized alternative that emerged from Twitter itself under co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey.The desperation to flee a once-dominant app stems from the many changes made to it by current owner Elon Musk, who acquired the platform for $44 billion last year. Since then, it has welcomed back hate speech and conspiracist accounts, grown increasingly glitchy as Musk slashed staff, and abolished the old identity verification system in favor of paid subscriptions to Twitter Blue, which has allowed all manner of trolls and grifters to buy an algorithmic boost on the site.More from Rolling StoneTwitter Faces Fresh Controversy After Verifying Fake Disney Junior Account That Uses Racial Slurs BuzzFeed, Elon Musk, and AI-Drake: How the 2010s Era Came to an EndTwitter Users With a Million Followers Are Getting 'Paid' Blue Checks, Like It or NotBluesky, whose interface resembles Twitter without certain features (including blocks and

Twitter once aspired to be the town square of the internet. Today, it’s more like wandering through a third-tier business convention. You can still have some interesting conversations — as long as you can tune out the drone of the bad keynote speakers and the shouts of the vendors hawking their wares.Things have been trending in this direction since Elon Musk took over the platform in October, but it’s clearer what Twitter has become in the wake of the Great Blue Check-opalypse of 2023. Yes, last week, on 4/20 (haha?), Musk made good on his promise to pull the blue verification badge conferred on scientists, celebrities, journalists, athletes and other legacy “accounts of public interest” whose owners declined to pay a monthly $8 fee. Those who pay to be verified — a status that no longer involves any actual verification — have now been guaranteed preference and increased reach over those who do not; their replies automatically jump the line. Organizations seeking verification to, say, deter scammers, must pay Musk $1,000 a month.This door-to-door vacuum salesman’s approach to social media management quickly proved disastrous on nearly every front.Suddenly, it was crystal clear who was willing to pay for Twitter (Musk

In October, polarizing billionaire and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk purchased the polarizing social media platform Twitter for $44 billion, promising to change how the site operated.In various statements, most of them tweets, Musk made allusions to decreased moderation on the platform, pledging to make the site a bastion of “free speech.”In the months that followed, he implemented several new initiatives at the company and the site, including firing hundreds of employees, reinstating hundreds of previously banned accounts, stripping badges of verification from most users who did not pay $8 per month for a Twitter Blue subscription, and pledging to address the site’s bot problem.But new research shows that the site also underwent another change after Musk took over — it became more hateful.According to data collected by researchers from USC, UCLA, UC Merced and Oregon State University, daily use of hate speech by those who previously posted hateful tweets nearly doubled after Musk finalized the sale. And the overall volume of hate speech also doubled sitewide.The research was conducted by Keith Burghardt, Matheus Schmitz and Goran Muric of USC, UCLA’s Daniel Fessler, Daniel Hickey of Oregon State and Paul Smaldino of UC Merced. The group studied the tweets of

Michigan football is on an absolute tear on the recruiting trail. The Wolverines landed two of its top targets on Tuesday. The first domino to fall on Tuesday was when Michigan landed four-star tight end Brady Prieskorn. Then a few hours later, the maize and blue got one of their top defensive line targets in four-star Jerod Smith. Buy Wolverines TicketsAccording to 247Sports Composite, Smith is the 30th-ranked defensive lineman in the 2024 class and the 270th-ranked player in the nation. He hails from Cheshire (CT) Cheshire Academy and has good size at 6-foot-3 265-pounds. With the additions of Prieskorn and Smith, Michigan now has the No. 1 ranked class according to 247Sports for the 2024 recruiting class. As usual, Twitter erupted when Michigan landed Smith and here are the best reactions we could find. BREAKING: Four-Star DL Jerod Smith tells me he has Committed to Michigan! The 6’4 255 DL from Cheshire, CT chose the Wolverines over Alabama, Nebraska, & others. “Michigan I’m home! We bringing that Natty back to Ann Arbor!”https://t.co/50rt9lOtfV pic.twitter.com/16dec89Zt6 — Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) April 25, 2023 Michigan adds its second ESPN 300 commit of the day, this one with defensive lineman Jerod Smith. Wolverines now

Twitter logos outside the company's offices in San Francisco, Calif., on Dec. 19, 2022.Jeff Chiu/The Associated PressSince Elon Musk’s takeover, Twitter has gone through many waves of significant changes. The company has faced firings and staff shortages, and the app itself has many new features that have been unveiled in the past year. While some have stuck, others have been modified or scrapped.If you’re finding it hard to keep up with the way Twitter works now, you’re definitely not alone. Here’s are some highlights of the latest with Twitter, as of April 24:Twitter BlueMany of Twitter’s high-profile users have lost the blue checkmarks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from imposters on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.After several false starts, the platform began removing the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to Twitter Blue to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system – many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. The checks began disappearing from these users’ profiles late Thursday morning.Checkmarks were returned to some high-profile accounts a few days after the purge, such as those belonging to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, chef Anthony