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| David Warner was fuming after his dismissal.IPLThis year's Indian Premier League has seen quite a few instances when the batters have made their displeasure known to the umpire after being given out. In the game between DC and CSK at DY Patil stadium, David Warner was seen livid after being given out leg before the wicket by umpire Nitin Menon.Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings were locked in a battle in match number 55 of  IPL 2022 at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. After losing the toss, CSK were asked to bat first and they did brilliantly as openers Ruturaj Gaikwad (41) and Devon Conway (87) gave them a flying start. The two batters took the Delhi bowlers and deposited them to every part of the ground as they stitched another century stand for their side. This was followed by some brutal hitting by Shivam Dube (32) who was promoted up the order by skipper MS Dhoni. The final touches came from MS Dhoni's bat who scored 21 from 8 balls to help his team reach 208/6.Delhi Capitals came out to chase the daunting total and lost opener, KS Bharat, early in the innings. However, David Warner who…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Washington Post continued its crusade against Tesla CEO Elon Musk after claiming "women and people of color could suffer the most" after his purchase of Twitter.On Friday, the publication promoted an article questioning Musk’s policy for content moderation after finalizing his $44 billion deal to buy the social media company. The paper later shared the article on Saturday through its Twitter account. ELON MUSK’S MOM SLAMS NYT OVER STORY SUGGESTING HE WAS ‘DETACHED FROM APARTHEID’S ATROCITIES’ IN SOUTH AFRICA "With Elon Musk’s looming takeover, the future of Twitter’s content moderation is uncertain. Experts say women and people of color could suffer the most," the Washington Post tweeted. The Washington Post tweeted "With Elon Musk’s looming takeover, the future of Twitter’s content moderation is uncertain. Experts say women and people of color could suffer the most." (Twitter)The tweet was mocked by critics, who called out the paper’s insistence that women and minorities would suffer from Musk’s content moderation."They’re not going to stop," The Spectator Contributing Editor Stephen L. Miller tweeted. Stephen Miller tweeted "They’re not going to stop" (Twitter)Grabien founder Tom Elliott wrote "This trick has lost its punch." Tom Elliott tweeted "This trick…

Elon Musk has called the report "false".Washington: Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has rubbished a report by a US daily that claimed former President Donald Trump, who has been permanently banned from Twitter, “encouraged” him to buy the micro-blogging site. Mr Musk has called the report “false”.The report in the New York Post quoted Devin Nunes, the CEO of Donald Trump's own social media app Truth Social, as saying that the former president “encouraged Elon Musk to buy it (Twitter) because someone has to take on these tech tyrants.”When the US daily shared its story on Twitter, Elon Musk replied, “This is false. I have had no communication, directly or indirectly, with Trump, who has publicly stated that he will be exclusively on Truth Social”.This is false. I've had no communication, directly or indirectly, with Trump, who has publicly stated that he will be exclusively on Truth Social.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2022Last month, Elon Musk bought Twitter in an all-cash deal worth $44 billion. The dice began to roll for the deal in early April when the Tesla Boss disclosed that he was Twitter's largest individual shareholder with 9 percent stake in the company. Soon he agreed…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A San Francisco judge tossed out former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit challenging his permanent ban from Twitter.U.S. District Judge James Donato said Friday that Trump failed to show Twitter violated his First Amendment right to free speech. Free speech rights don’t apply to private companies and Trump failed to show Twitter was working as a state actor on behalf of Democrats.“The amended complaint merely offers a grab-bag of allegations to the effect that some Democratic members of Congress wanted Mr. Trump, and ‘the views he espoused,’ to be banned from Twitter because such ‘content and views’ were ‘contrary to those legislators’ preferred points of view,’” Donato wrote. “But the comments of a handful of elected officials are a far cry from a ‘rule of decision for which the State is responsible.’ Legislators are perfectly free to express opinions without being deemed the official voice of ‘the State.’”Trump sued Twitter, Facebook and Google’s YouTube in July 2021, claiming they illegally censored him.The platforms suspended Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, in which his followers violently stormed the Capitol building in an attempt to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential win. The companies cited concerns he…

A move by Andreessen Horowitz to join Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter Inc. threatens to create a conflict for firm co-founder Marc Andreessen, who sits on the board of social-networking rival Meta Platforms Inc.Andreessen Horowitz agreed to invest $400 million in the Twitter takeover deal, part of $7.1 billion in new financing commitments announced Thursday. That put one of the biggest early backers of Facebook, which changed its name to Meta last year, in position to become a new owner of Twitter.Firm co-founder Ben Horowitz said in a tweet that Musk was perhaps the only person in the world with the “courage, brilliance and skills” to fix Twitter’s problems and “build the public square that we all hoped for and deserve.”Andreessen Horowitz’s involvement has raised questions about the VC firm’s links to Meta, where Marc Andreessen has served as a board member since 2008. Though it’s not uncommon for Silicon Valley investors to have a hand in competing startups, potential conflicts can be more serious with publicly traded businesses, said John Coates, a professor at Harvard Law School. “It’s safe to say that Silicon Valley norms about conflicts -- where they are often tolerated or even encouraged, in a culture along…

A federal judge in California dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter Friday, dimming at least one avenue the former president and prolific tweeter might have used to get back to his platform of choice. Trump’s argument that the social media company and its then-chief executive Jack Dorsey violated his right to free speech failed to convince Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California, to put it lightly. “Plaintiffs’ main claim is that defendants have “censor” plaintiffs’ Twitter accounts in violation of their right to free speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,” Donato wrote. “Plaintiffs are not starting from a position of strength.” In tossing the suit as it stands, Donato pointed out the obvious: Twitter is a private company and is not bound by the First Amendment, which protects Americans from government efforts to limit speech. Essentially, Twitter can do whatever it wants when it comes to content moderation, just like any other online platform. Donato shot down the connection Trump’s legal team tried to make between the U.S. government and Twitter, rejecting the assertion that the company was somehow acting on behalf of the federal government because Democratic lawmakers wanted Trump kicked off…

Elon Musk's Twitter profile is seen on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos in this picture illustration taken April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Dado RuvicRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comMay 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reviewing Tesla (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the deal.The FTC declined to comment, while Musk could not be reached for comment.The agency will decide in the next month whether it will do an in-depth antitrust probe of the proposed transaction, the person told Bloomberg. Such a probe would delay the deal's closing by months.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comAntitrust experts have said there is little likelihood the agency will find any evidence that Musk's purchase of Twitter is illegal under antitrust law.The FTC is already investigating Musk's initial purchase of a 9% stake in Twitter, probing whether he complied with an antitrust reporting requirement when he acquired the shares in early April. read more One critic of the deal has been Open Markets Institute, which said that it should be stopped to avoid giving an already powerful man "direct control…

As their bromance heats up, Jack Dorsey has weighed in again to support Elon Musk’s pending acquisition of Twitter following news the Tesla CEO wants Dorsey to retain a stake and stick around. Twitter’s co-founder and former CEO still sits on the Twitter’s board but has attacked it as dysfunctional and had planned to leave at the annual meeting in late May when his term ends. Dorsey today responded to tweets by Ben Horowitz, co-founder and general partner of investment firm Andreessen Horowitz. The firm agreed to invest $400 million in an Elon Musk-owned Twitter, one of 18 blue-chip backers the Tesla CEO lined up to help finance his bid, according to an SEC filing. Horowitz said, “Twitter has great promise as a public square, it suffers from a myriad of difficult issues ranging from bots to abuse to censorship. Being a public company solely reliant on an advertising business model exacerbates all of these.” Then he added, “Elon is the one person we know and perhaps the only person in the world who has the courage, brilliance, and skills to fix all of these and build the public square that we all hoped for and deserve.” “This is true.…

When Elon Musk offered to take Twitter (TWTR 0.39%) private, he pledged $21 billion of his personal wealth to the deal. The Tesla (TSLA 4.77%) CEO already sold about $8 billion of his stock in the electric vehicle company, so he will most certainly have some skin in the game. But Musk is also looking for private equity firms to contribute some cash to the deal, shrinking his own cash investment and potential ownership stake even further. What does he really want from this controversial deal? The original deal structure Let's start with the original ownership structure of the proposed Twitter buyout: A consortium of banks agreed to inject $13 billion in loans secured against the Twitter business. Another $12.5 billion in bank loans is backed by Musk's Tesla stock. Finally, $21 billion of the price tag will be paid out of Musk's pocket. In Tweets made after the deal announcement and the subsequent Tesla stock sales, Musk has said that he won't sell any more stock in support of this buyout. That sounds strange to me because this man has a history of keeping his wealth locked up in stock and other assets, to the point where he often…

Twitter is in the middle of a moment of uncertainty. The company has a deal to sell itself to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, but while that deal is pending (it needs shareholder and regulatory approvals, etc.) it has to be business-as-usual for the social media firm. “It has been a quiet month at Twitter, so there is no better time for all of us to get together,” JP Maheu, head of global client solutions for Twitter, joked at the start of the company’s upfront presentation at New York’s South Street Seaport. The company took over an event space, creating interactive set pieces highlighting events like the Olympics, and topics like gaming and crypto. But the show had to go on. And so it is that the company announced a flurry of new content partnerships Wednesday, tied to the newfront presentation. A core piece of the pitch to advertisers will sound familiar to those tracking Musk’s interest in the company: Twitter has simply become the go-to public square. “The Twitter timeline is where highlights hit first. It’s the place people come to watch, debate and participate in the biggest moments across sports, news, gaming and entertainment every day,” said TJ Adeshola,…