BOSTON — A tweet war between Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and billionaire Elon Musk, Twitter’s new chief executive officer, gained traction over the weekend.
Sunday morning, Musk, who took control of the social media platform two weeks ago, responded to Markey’s complaints about “fake accounts” on Twitter after a Washington Post reporter created an account impersonating Markey, the senator said.
“A @washingtonpost reporter was able to create a verified account impersonating me—I’m asking for answers from @elonmusk who is putting profits over people and his debt over stopping disinformation. Twitter must explain how this happened and how to prevent it from happening again,” Markey said in a tweet on Friday.
One of your companies is under an FTC consent decree. Auto safety watchdog NHTSA is investigating another for killing people. And you’re spending your time picking fights online. Fix your companies. Or Congress will. https://t.co/lE178gPRoM
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) November 13, 2022
At 10:20 a.m. Sunday, Musk responded in a tweet to Markey: “Perhaps it is because your real account sounds like a parody?”
A few minutes later, at 10:36 a.m., in referring to Markey’s Twitter profile photo in which the senator is wearing a blue surgical mask, Musk tweeted again to Markey: “And why does your pp have a mask!?”
At 11:16 a.m., Markey retweeted Musk’s tweet referring to Markey’s account as “a parody,” with a stern warning.
“One of your companies is under an FTC consent decree,”...
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday rejected the claims of Congress MLAs from Tamil Nadu being shifted to a resort in Bengaluru post Assembly elections. He further said that ...