From Facebook's troubled pivot to the metaverse to Twitter's management chaos to industry-wide layoffs, social media companies have had a rocky 2022

"I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!" Musk tweeted after most respondents to his Twitter poll said he should step down.

The United Nations and the European Union are among the groups that condemned Musk's sudden decision to suspend several journalists from the social media platform.

Press advocates said the move sets a dangerous precedent and worried about future moves against journalists who cover the billionaire.

Twitter on Wednesday suspended an account that used publicly available flight data to track Elon Musk's private jet, despite his pledge to keep it up because of his free speech principles.

The Twitter CEO's selective release of internal communications largely corroborate what is already known about the messy business of policing a large social network.

The advisory group of nearly 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide and other problems on the platform.

The social media company also disbanded its outside council of civil and human rights advisors, exacerbating concerns about what it's doing to protect users.

The embattled CEO tweeted Friday that the company will re-launch its paid verification program next week. He says accounts will be manually verified and color coded, but has yet to offer details.

Half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website. A new report states that these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020.

As the social media platform struggles to find a way forward, NPR surveys key moments in its history.

Monday on Political Rewind: With their runoff two weeks away, the Walker and Warnock campaigns are pulling out all the stops. Will Warnock benefit from early Saturday voting? How will Trump and Kemp affect Walker's campaign? And will the overturning of Georgia's abortion law come into play? 

"I don't bet against this guy," said one investor in Elon Musk's Tesla and Twitter. Others worry that the chaos at Twitter will continue dragging down Tesla values.

Twitter has become the first mainstream social media platform to reinstate the former president, who was banned from many sites after his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Twitter employees who've quit say risks are growing of service outages, glitches and even hacks on the influential social network.