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A comprehensive guide of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and tenure as Twitter’s CEO through news headlines.

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4/14: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion.

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4/25: Elon Musk reaches an agreement to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion.

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4/28: Twitter revenue climbs to $1.2 billion and daily users rise to 229 million.

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5/13: Elon Musk says the deal to buy Twitter is temporarily on hold over fake account data.

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7/8: Elon Musk says he’s terminating the $44 billion Twitter buyout deal.

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8/30: Elon Musk files another notice to scrap Twitter acquisition after a whistleblower’s allegations of security concerns on the platform.

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10/4: Elon Musk offers to end the legal fight and pay $44 billion to buy Twitter.

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10/27: Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover and fires top executives.

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11/1: Elon Musk says ​​Twitter's blue verification tick will cost $8 a month.

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11/2: Elon Musk says Twitter users engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying it as a "parody" account will be permanently suspended without a warning.

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11/4: Elon Musk begins layoffs at Twitter.

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11/4: Twitter pauses paid verification subscription service which grants blue-check verified labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts.

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11/10: Blindspot for the right: Instances of racial slurs soar on Twitter after Elon Musk purchased the platform, despite assurances from the platform that it had reduced hateful activity.

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11/13: Elon Musk cuts Twitter's outsourced content moderators.

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11/15: Elon Musk gives employees two days to commit to 'hardcore' Twitter or lose their jobs.

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11/16: New wave of resignations at Twitter after Musk's ultimatum.

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11/19: Elon Musk reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter account after polling Twitter users, ending a nearly two-year ban.

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11/28: Twitter drops its policy preventing the sharing of false or misleading information about COVID-19.

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12/2: Elon Musk's Twitter took aim at the firm's previous management Friday evening with a "Twitter Files" presentation intended to demonstrate "free speech suppression,” spotlighting the Hunter Biden laptop story ban.

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12/8: Blindspot for the left: The second installment of “Twitter Files” is released. Journalists working with Musk share images of accounts that Twitter allegedly placed on various types of “blacklists.”

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12/9: Blindspot for the left: Twitter’s decision to remove former president Donald Trump from the platform is explained in an installment of “Twitter Files.”

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12/12: Blindspot for the left: Another batch of “Twitter Files” is released, detailing Twitter employees' thoughts on the day the platform decided to suspend then-President Donald Trump permanently.

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12/12: Elon Musk's Twitter dissolves its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations that the company formed in 2016.

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12/14: Twitter suspends an account tracking Elon Musk's private jet in real-time, with Musk threatening legal action against the account's operator.

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12/15: Twitter suspends social media platform Mastodon’s official account.

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12/15: Several prominent journalists covering Elon Musk are suspended from Twitter. Musk accuses the journalists of sharing private information about his whereabouts.

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12/16: Blindspot for the left: "Part six" of the Twitter Files report reveals occasions when federal law enforcement officers flagged election misinformation to Twitter for review.

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12/16: Elon Musk reverses a Twitter suspension on a group of journalists he claimed were putting his family's safety at risk after polling Twitter users on the suspension.

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12/18: Twitter says it will no longer allow users to promote other social media accounts on its platform.

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12/18: Blindspot for the left: Substack writer Matt Taibbi adds a "supplemental" thread to his latest "Twitter Files" drop on FBI connections with the social media site.

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12/19: Blindspot for the left: The latest release of the “Twitter Files” details the FBI's engagement with the social media company to discredit information regarding Hunter Biden.

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12/19: Blindspot for the right: LAPD sees no link between alleged Musk stalker and private jet location tweets.

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12/19: Twitter users tell Elon Musk to step down after CEO asks in poll.

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