A judge in Berlin told two organisations that their complaints against X should be taken in Ireland, setting the stage for more disputes for Elon Musk’s platform in Irish courts.
Aaron Rodericks has previously claimed he was suspended and exposed to a "sham" disciplinary process for allegedly retweeting and liking tweets critical of the tech billionaire.
A year on from Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover of Twitter, now known as X, the platform appears clunky and antagonistic to many users. Yet a critical mass remains and new data shows Irish users are largely remaining on site.
X’s Dublin-based international office has reported multi-million-euro redundancy and lease exit costs while disclosing impairments in the value of the social network in the months following its takeover by Elon Musk.
It's not immediately obvious how to fix Twitter's broken business model. $1 billion in annual interest payments as a result of the Musk takeover should concentrate minds.
The author, former New York Times journalist and Covid-19 vaccine sceptic Alex Berenson is taking steps to sue Twitter in Ireland for alleged defamation. He was kicked off the platform last year for violating Twitter's Covid-19 misleading information policy.
By locating intellectual property in Ireland, Twitter was planning to shrink taxable profits for 15 years. Now the social network is not so sure the green jersey scheme is going to deliver.
Having raised another €1.6m for his second start-up Kinzen, Mark Little talks about combining machine and human brainpower to tackle online misinformation, becoming a leader at Twitter and his thoughts on public service journalism.
Twitter is the latest multinational to reveal a multi-billion intellectual property onshoring in Ireland, suppressing its tax liability here in the process. The company and its rival Facebook are also bracing for the first significant data protection fines under GDPR.
In yet another case taken against social media giants, former Fianna Fáil TD Frank O'Rourke has started legal actions against Twitter and Facebook
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