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NEW YORK — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is asking on Twitter whether he should sell 10% of his stock in the electric-vehicle company amid pressure in Washington to increase taxes on billionaires like him. Some Democrats have been pushing for billionaires to pay taxes when the price of the stocks they hold goes up, even if they don’t sell any shares. It’s a concept called “unrealized gains,” and Musk is sitting on a lot of them with a net worth of roughly $300 billion. “Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock,” he tweeted Saturday afternoon. “Do you support this?” By Sunday morning, around halfway through the 24-hour-long poll, 56% had said yes out of a total of 2,598,570 votes. Much of Musk’s wealth is held in shares of Tesla, which does not pay him a cash salary. “I only have stock, thus the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock,” he tweeted. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories By signing up, you agree to the terms Musk, who is known for…

Elon Musk had challenged the UN saying that he would sell his Tesla stocks if they provided him with a good plan that would solve world hunger Source: Reuters Updated: Nov 7, 2021, 10:59 AM IST World's richest man Elon Musk threw a poll at Twitter on Saturday asking if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stocks.  This comes after he had said that he might face a huge tax bill in the upcoming year and the only way to pay taxes is through selling stock since he doesn't have any cash. He said on Twitter, "Note, I do not take a cash salary or bonus from anywhere. I only have stock, thus the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock."  He added more referring to the billionaires' tax proposed by Democrats. He said, "Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock." Elon Musk's poll on Twitter received over 2 million responses in a span of seven hours with 55 percent of respondents approving the proposal to sell the shares. Musk has said that he will do whatever the result…

Please log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountSocial network Twitter Inc has temporarily disabled its ‘trends’ section in Africa’s conflict-hit nation of Ethiopia over threats of physical harm, the company said on Friday, and was monitoring the situation.“Inciting violence or dehumanizing people is against our rules... Given the imminent threat of physical harm, we’ve also temporarily disabled Trends in Ethiopia,” it said.Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines. Sign up today.

Take out your magnifying glasses, folks! This picture, shared in a Twitter post, is a perfect example of an optical illusuion and will require you look deep. When you see it for the first time, all you are likely to notice is an old window and pink wall. So what's the big fuss, you ask? Look properly, probaly, zoom in... do you see something behind the window? Shared on Twitter by Buitengebieden, this picture actually includes a cat! Don't believe it? It's true. And just like you, Twitteratis had a filed day trying to spot the cat which is almost invisible! Along with the post, Buitengebieden's caption read, "There’s a cat in this picture.."  Since the time it was posted online, the picture has received nearly seven thousand likes, alomg with hilarious reactions. Some users were frustrated unable to spot the cat, while others were excited at having deciphered the exact location. Yet some other posted hilarious counters. All in all, the internet had a field day.  Here take a look at the picture and try to figure out for yourself the cat: There’s a cat in this picture.. pic.twitter.com/pc8tMgUdLY — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) November 3, 2021 Here's how some of the…

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s cyber police on Wednesday launched a legal probe into “baseless” social media posts speculating about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s health. In a statement, the police said they were investigating 30 people who used or retweeted the hashtag #olmus (#heisdead), which became a top trending topic on Turkish Twitter. Underscoring the government’s sensitivity about the posts, Erdogan’s communications director Fahrettin Altun posted a short clip on Wednesday showing the Turkish leader walking out of his official car along a turquoise carpet. “Trust to friends, fear to enemies,” Altun wrote. Rumors about the health of Erdogan, 67, have been swirling for years, with one of his doctors going on record in 2011 to deny that the Turkish leader had cancer. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories By signing up, you agree to the terms Erdogan underwent laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery that same year and has been walking more gingerly ever since. ארדואן לא נראה טוב, כך ע"פ תמונות ששודרו ב-1 בנובמבר בטלוויזיה הטורקית pic.twitter.com/QhvD0CDvQc — Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) November 3, 2021 Erdogan met US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome on Sunday. He then canceled…

Twitter is rolling out a new feature for iOS app users, enabling users to search through a specific profile's tweets. The new search button is showing up for individual profile pages, enabling users to search for tweets of a specific account only. This feature has been spotted on the latest version of iOS. The site, which regularly tests new features ahead of their official rollout, recently unveiled a new way for some people to check out these new features before everyone else. The new paid Twitter Blue service will get early access to some new features under a new Labs banner.XDA Developers first spotted that Twitter has a new Search button on each username's profile page. This new Search @Username's Tweets button is appearing for a few users on iOS and is likely in the testing phase. According to the screenshots shared, the new button is located on the top right corner next to the three-dot menu. iOS users can dig through their own tweets or other accounts' tweets as well.By clicking on the search icon, the user can enter the desired term. When you click enter, a screen similar to that of the existent search functionality shows up, but…

It’s been a long time coming, and a much-requested update, and today, finally, Instagram has announced that IG posts shared in tweets will appear with preview cards once again, helping to improve cross-platform sharing. They said it would never happen… Twitter Card previews start rolling out TODAY. ????Now, when you share an Instagram link on Twitter a preview of that post will appear. ???? pic.twitter.com/XSZRx9dzd1— Instagram (@instagram) November 3, 2021 Instagram preview links were previously available on Twitter, but Instagram canceled them in 2012, making it annoyingly difficult to share between the two apps. But then, earlier this year, Instagram and Twitter started working together again, with tweets appearing as shareable stickers in Instagram Stories. That opened the door to more potential cross-app collaboration, and a subsequent tweet exchange between Twitter product chief Kayvon Beykpour and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri eventually lead to this new tweet card update. If you want to share your latest Instagram post on the Twitter timeline too, you’re in luck: now when you share a link to an IG post in a Tweet, it’ll show up as a card with a preview of the photo.Rolling out on Android, iOS, and web.— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November…

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Wednesday argued that former President Donald Trump’s booting from social media for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection proved to be “a huge windfall” for Republicans.The “Morning Joe” co-host, during a discussion on Democrat Terry McAullife’s defeat to the GOP’s Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia governor race, pointed out that some Republicans are glad Trump is no longer on Twitter. Youngkin kept Trump at arm’s length during his campaign. Without Trump’s social media ban, Scarborough noted, the former president would have reminded Virginia voters “every two minutes of just how caustic, how toxic his personality was.”“Actually, him being banned from Twitter, him being banned from Facebook, him being banned from social media is a huge windfall for Republicans,” said Scarborough in a video shared by Mediaite.Distancing themselves from Trump could be the playbook that Republicans use in 2022 and beyond, said “Way Too Early” anchor Jonathan Lemire.

The Braves are taking on the Astros in Game 6 of the World Series with a chance to close it out, and the fans in Atlanta are understandably nervous. Five years ago, the Falcons were in a similar position in the Super Bowl but collapsed in a fashion so painful, most fans have yet to fully shake it off. As we can see on Twitter, the fan base’s excitement for tonight’s game is arguably matched by its anxiety. PLEASE BRAVES PLEASE DO THIS TONIGHT PLEASE MY FRACTURED AND FRAGILE ATLANTA SPORTS MIND CANT TAKE ANOTHER CHOKE JOB PLEASE PLEASE GET IT DONE — #MyWatchSays420 (@MyWatchSays420) November 3, 2021 Is this a joke??? Come on @Braves everyone missed the bag except until Fried hit the bag with his glove blatantly!!! WTF is going on with the replay guys????? Makes no sense not to challenge it!!! My head is gonna explode. Inning should be over. F@#@!!!!!!! — Brian Finneran (@BFinn86) November 3, 2021 i just turned to the game and Swanson crushed it, your welcome — Aaron Freeman (@falcfans) November 3, 2021 Ok Braves more runs please and thank you — Sarah Woodall (@Woodall8Sarah) November 3, 2021 welp- congrats Braves fans. Welcome,…

Oct 30, 2021; Eugene, Oregon, USA; Oregon Ducks running back Travis Dye (26) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the first half against the Colorado Buffaloes at Autzen Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Troy Wayrynen-USA TODAY Sports Who saw this coming? After coming in at No. 7 in the AP Top 25 this week, Oregon football got some major respect from the playoff committee, earning the No. 4 spot in the playoff rankings.Everyone was shocked that it wasn’t Ohio State or Oklahoma or even Cincinnati in that No. 4 spot, but that just goes to show how much the committee valued the Ducks’ road win over then-No. 3 Ohio State in Week 2. Couple that with a solid win over UCLA a couple of weeks ago and then some style points added from Week 9’s win over Colorado and it makes more sense.I still can’t say that I saw this coming.In fact, in my ‘where will Oregon be ranked?’ post from earlier on Tuesday, I projected the Ducks to come in at No. 7 in the rankings. I was happy to be wrong.With Anthony Brown playing his best football of the season, Oregon no longer playing down to opponents, and the run…