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Businessman Elon Musk said Tuesday he will lift the Twitter ban on former President Donald Trump after the deal for purchasing the company becomes final, saying a permanent ban on users is morally wrong.

Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter was widely applauded this week by Christian and social conservative communities, with many expressing hope that the acquisition will lead to a more free and open exchange of certain ideas that – in the past – have led some individuals to be banned.

From 2009-2021, the share of American high-school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26 percent to 44 percent. [This] is the highest level of teenage sadness ever recorded. [Almost] every measure of mental health is getting worse, for every teenage demographic, and it’s happening all across the country.

More younger Americans are leaving some social media sites, a survey from the investment bank Piper Sandler found.

Yesterday we began discussing Jonathan Haidt’s illuminating Atlantic article analyzing the impact of social media on our culture. He notes the degree to which “a democracy depends on widely internalized acceptance of the legitimacy of rules, norms, and institutions” and shows how social media is undermining such acceptance as polarizing and often false content becomes increasingly pervasive and influential.

Elon Musk has made an offer to buy Twitter Inc., saying Twitter has “extraordinary potential” that he would like to “unlock.”

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will not be joining Twitter's board of directors as previously expected.

Sometimes it feels like Facebook should come with a warning label: Enter at your own risk.

The internet can be a harsh place, and it can be easier to slip into bad habits on social media than in the “real world.” You can’t always see the damage you do, you can react within seconds in the heat of anger, and it’s hard to take your words back once you’ve put them out to all of Facebook.

As Christians, we should be especially careful what we post online, and more importantly, how we treat others. You might be able to come up with more, but here are 10 problem areas that I see most often. Have you noticed yourself or others falling into these traps?

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After a week of saying that he would launch a new social media platform, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has become Twitter's largest shareholder.

Twitter has taken action against Christian media platforms the Babylon Bee and The Christian Post for calling Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Rachel Levine, a man.