The Latest Breaking News from Twitter Inc.

Reports of Elon Musk plotting with an ‘inner circle’ over plans for Twitter have been circulating for days. Maddy Mussen finds out who those people actually are

Plus: Congress remains too cautious about marijuana, myths about independent contractors, and more...

The emails started arriving in Twitter Inc. employees’ personal inboxes in the early morning hours Friday: “Today is your last working day at the company,” the message read.

As people frantically refreshed their work and personal accounts to learn their fate, new owner Elon Musk sought to defend his decision to terminate thousands of jobs. He said the company had experienced a “massive drop in revenue” due to a flight of advertisers from the social network.

Twitter Inc. employees around the world began getting notifications that they were locked out of their work accounts, a week after billionaire Elon Musk took over the company promising sweeping changes.

New owner Elon Musk moved swiftly to fire thousands, saying "unfortunately there is no choice" when Twitter is bleeding money. Critics called for an ad boycott.

Sweeping job cuts began today, but many workers are fighting back, with some in America filing a class-action lawsuit against Twitter in San Francisco saying the lack of notice violated federal and state law.

Turkey's main opposition party has said its leader is the first target of a media "disinformation" law after police asked prosecutors to open an investigation into comments he made blaming authorities for a drug "epidemic".

A French Twitter user invented the country to fool Americans

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has resulted in the uncertainty of thousands of jobs as mass layoffs begin today

New collection is modelled by Bella Hadid