Many people who tried to access content on the platform were met with error messages. Twitter CEO Elon Musk said "extreme levels of data scraping" were affecting user experience on the site.
Authorities quickly confirmed that no explosion had taken place but the faked images spread on Twitter for a short time. The incident briefly sent the stock market lower.
Musk confirmed Yaccarino will succeed him as chief executive of Twitter, which has seen advertising plummet. The two appeared in a marketing conference in April.
The fired Fox News host announced he is bringing his show to Twitter, owned by Elon Musk, "soon." His lawyers reportedly have sent threatening letters to Fox to let him out of his contract.
The company used "visibility filtering rules" in order to curtail propaganda and misinformation. Under Elon Musk, those guidelines have been discarded.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation paused its use of Twitter after the social media platform stamped CBC's account with a label the public broadcaster says is intended to undermine its credibility.
In the aftermath of the explosions, Americans were glued to their screens, waiting for the chaos to unfurl into a narrative. Ten years later, we still process tragedies in similar ways.
NPR's official Twitter feeds have gone silent. The news organization cites the social media platform's decision to question NPR's editorial independence through a series of inaccurate labels.
Elon Musk is currently facing a $258 billion class-action federal lawsuit accusing him of engaging in a pyramid scheme for voicing his support for Dogecoin in several tweets.
The social media company said it would start removing blue checks from accounts that haven't signed up for its paid service, Twitter Blue. With one exception, it's unclear if it's taken any action.
