Photos: Elon Musk through the years

Musk has raised questions about free speech on Twitter and whether failing to adhere to its basic principles undermines democracy.

Twitter said in a statement Friday that its board of directors has unanimously adopted a "poison pill" defense in response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk's proposal to buy the company and take it private.

Elon Musk said that his planned $44 billion purchase of Twitter is "temporarily on hold" pending details on spam and fake accounts.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can't move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the social media platform are fake or spam.

A report by Business Insider said SpaceX paid the woman $250,000 in severance in 2018 in exchange for her agreeing not to file a lawsuit over her claim.

One of Elon Musk's children has petitioned a California court to recognize her new name and gender, saying she no longer wishes to be related to her father "in any way, shape or form."

Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, Business Insider reported.

Twitter is fighting back, pledging to take Musk to court.

Musk is in charge of the social media platform and has fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and General Counsel Vijaya Gadde. But questions remain about how the deal will play out. Here's the latest.

Elon Musk tweeted a link to an unfounded rumor about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband just days after his purchase of Twitter.

Elon Musk warned Twitter employees to brace for “difficult times ahead” that might end with the collapse of the social media platform.

If Twitter were to go dark, with it would go a valuable source of data as well as a means of sharing information relied on by activists, journalists, public health officials and scientists.

Elon Musk reinstated Donald Trump's account on Twitter on Saturday, reversing a ban that has kept the former president off the social media site.

The intersection of content management, misinformation, aggregated data about human behavior and crowdsourcing shows how fragile Twitter is and what would be lost with the platform’s demise.

While still grappling with the fallout from a company he did take private, beleaguered billionaire Elon Musk is now facing a trial over a company he didn't. Musk claimed in a 2018 tweet that he had lined up the financing to pay for a $72 billion buyout of Tesla. But the buyout never materialized and now Musk faces a class-action lawsuit on behalf of investors who owned Tesla stock for a 10-day period in August 2018.

The Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification check marks this week from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee, leaving public agencies and other organizations around the world scrambling to figure out a way to show they're trustworthy and avoid impersonators.

The intersection of content management, misinformation, aggregated data about human behavior and crowdsourcing shows how fragile Twitter is and what would be lost with the platform’s demise.