Will X/Twitter Charge All Users a Fee as Musk Said? CEO Linda Yaccarino Won’t Say

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The SEC filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, seeking to compel him to testify about his acquisition of a large amount of Twitter shares worth around $3 billion before his takeover of the social network. Per the suit, filed Oct. 5 in federal court in San Francisco, Musk was scheduled to appear for testimony Sept.

The Securities and Exchange Commission wants a word with Elon Musk.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Will Ferrell wants to work with up-and-coming comedians on social media — who will get a chance to mentor under some big-name podcasters and be featured across iHeartMedia‘s audio outlets. Ferrell and iHeartMedia’s Big Money Players Podcast Network (BMP) announced the “Big Money Players Circle.” Ferrell has hand-picked “the coolest and funniest social sensations to join the BMP network and be showcased across iHeartMedia’s multiplatform ecosystem,” according to the announcement. The flagship show for the Big Money Players Network, formed in 2019, is “The Ron Burgundy Podcast,” featuring the comedian and actor’s “Anchorman” persona.

Twitter, has stopped displaying news story headlines on the platform for some users.The social media site – which Elon Musk bought last year for $44billion – currently shows just the main image included in the article, as well as a link to the website it was published by in the bottom left-hand corner.Prior to this latest update, users were able to see the full headline – or a headline that had been adapted for social media – above a short description that provided further information about the piece in question. These were known as ‘Cards‘.The change came into effect yesterday (Wednesday, October 4) for iOS and desktop users.

Elon Musk has streamed Diablo 4 through X in an effort to show off his website’s capabilities for gaming streams as well as the rest of his goals for the revamped social media site.Per PCGamer, Musk appeared on a verified account named “cyb3rgam3r420” to share a session of him completing a tier 69 nightmare dungeon with his level 100 werewolf druid on October 2. The beginning was besieged with technical issues which were resolved within 15 minutes of the start of the stream, however, the stream stayed live for around 50 minutes all in all.Musk chatted to the audience about the druid build that he was using in the dungeon and invited players to try to kill his character in the PvP arena of Diablo 4.The business magnate had previously said that he wanted to stream “some silly stuff” to test the livestream scaling of X on September 27, but cancelled because work was proving problematic, and so he rescheduled.Then, the second stream of Diablo 4 featuring Musk completing a tier 100 nightmare dungeon was hosted on his official account for approximately 40 minutes, and it was not smooth sailing.Assumedly thanks to the significant increase in traffic to the stream as opposed to the other account, the video output struggled with flickering, frame rate issues and audio cutting in and out.His voice also sounded a lot higher as a result of a technical trouble with the stream making him “sound like a chipmunk”, he joked.Elsewhere, news broke yesterday (October 3) that Grimes is supposedly suing Musk for the custody of their third child, Techno Mechanicus.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor MoffettNathanson, a leading Wall Street research outfit covering the media and communications sectors, is once again an independent entity. In December 2021, SVB Financial Group acquired New York-based MoffettNathanson, which was founded in 2013 by analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson. In March of this year, Silicon Valley Bank — part of SVB Financial Group — collapsed after a run on its assets, leading the parent company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Grimes is reportedly suing her ex-partner, Elon Musk, over custody rights to their youngest child, Techno Mechanicus.The artist, real name Claire Boucher, filed a “petition to establish parental relationship” last Friday, according to TMZ, and is claiming that Musk isn’t letting her visit him.It had previously been thought that Musk and Grimes only had two children together until the existence of Techno Mechanicus, who is known as Tau for short, was revealed last month in a biography of Musk written by Walter Isaacson.Shortly after filing the lawsuit, Grimes seemed to suggest that Musk was preventing her from seeing the child. “Tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer,” she wrote in a since-deleted tweet [via Consequence Of Sound].Musk has yet to respond to Grimes’ petition.They share two other children, X Æ A-12, a boy born in May 2020, and Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, a daughter born via surrogate in December 2021.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Don’t be alarmed: The U.S. government on Oct. 4 will be conducting a test — only a test — of the emergency alert systems that span the nation’s millions of wireless phones, TVs and radios.

Grimes is suing her ex Elon Musk.

Grimes has taken legal action against her ex, Elon Musk, in regards to their three kids.

Elon Musk is being sued by ex Grimes over parental rights of their three children.Grimes filed a “petition to establish parental relationship” on Sept. 29 in a California court, according to court records obtained by Page Six on Tuesday.The request asks the court to identify the legal parents of a child when they are not married.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor If you’re piggybacking on someone else’s Disney+ account, you may soon have to pay up to access the streamer. The Mouse House has notified Disney+ subscribers in Canada that as of Nov. 1, “Unless otherwise permitted by your service tier, you may not share your subscription outside of your household.” The notification also informs customers that if the company has determined that a Disney+ subscriber has violated those terms, “we may limit or terminate access to the service and/or take any other steps as permitted by this agreement.” The language suggests that Disney+ will be offering a new option (or options) for account-sharing outside a primary user’s household.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Jeff Zucker‘s RedBird IMI investment company has bought a minority ownership stake in Front Office Sports, a media startup covering sports business. Front Office Sports claims that it has, on a monthly basis, “more than 150 million social impressions, 35 million newsletter opens, 10 million video views and 2 million page views” The company says it has more than 15 partners, which distribute its content on screens in more than 50,000 buildings and venues across North America. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Paris Hilton is getting her X on. The influencer and entrepreneur — who has 16.6 million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter — announced a deal with the social platform owned by Elon Musk for an array of content and commerce initiatives.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “Where am I going?,” Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of the company now known as X, asked as she wandered onto the stage at the Code 2023 conference Wednesday night. She seemed to feint toward the chair that her interviewer CNBC journalist Julia Boorstin had been sitting in, before finding her footing.

exposé reported allegations earlier this month that the British comedian, 48, raped and abused four women between 2006 and 2013.Tesla founder Musk, 52, had a conversation on X Spaces with conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro, 39, on Thursday in which they discussed Brand.Musk gave his two cents, saying that there needs to be a “conviction.”“It can’t be guilty until proven innocent. Because obviously we’re just sort of in the witch burning phase here; just being declared a witch is enough to make you a witch and be burnt,” the father of 11 explained.The billionaire added that “anyone could be accused at any time of false charges, and we can’t be destroying their lives on the potential of false accusations.”Musk further noted that the “Get Him to the Greek” actor “rattled the cage” of the “powers that be.”He continued to state that the public should ask why the accusations against Brand are coming to light a decade after the incidents allegedly occurred.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Netflix has been sued for breach of contract by a company that was creating a game based on the forthcoming “Rebel Moon” sci-fi films by Zack Snyder. In a lawsuit, Evil Genius Games said it had begun working with Netflix in early 2023 to develop a tabletop role-playing game based on “Rebel Moon” with a delivery date to coincide with the first film’s streaming release on Dec. 22, 2023.

Linda Yaccarino spoke glowingly of Elon Musk, said X will turn a profit in early 2024, and insisted the platform formerly known as Twitter has made major progress in reversing lagging metrics in her 100 days as CEO.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, is retiring next year after almost three decades with the company’s PlayStation business. Ryan will step down from the post in March 2024. Sony Group president, COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki will assume the role of chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment effective October 2023.

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media Analyst Allen Media Group CEO/founder/chairman Byron Allen reaffirmed his interest Wednesday in bidding $10 billion for TV brands from Disney, citing his experience with similar assets in his own portfolio. “I think broadcast television and linear channels, I think is a great business,” he said in a Q&A at the Code conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Meta has turned more than a dozen celebrities and influencers into robots. The tech company, at the Meta Connect 2023 confab Wednesday, announced partnerships with “cultural icons and influencers” to play and embody AI-powered chatbots that will have profiles on Instagram and Facebook. Those include Snoop Dogg, Charli D’Amelio, MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson), Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and Paris Hilton.