How Twitter?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Well done,

Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy - The Verge

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Weird flex.

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[Miisa]

Or "MAGA flex, but okay?"

[Sock Puppet]

Can't call them weird, check. Has he ruled on "Dumber than dogshit"?

[Stephen Maturin]

Free speech absolutism ain't what it used to be! As always, the world will be a measurably better place when Elon "Jews will not replace us" Musk dies.

[BrotherMan]

MAGAist are skibidi weird

[fragment]

Being reported as fake: Fact Check: X Post Supposedly From Elon Musk About 'Punishing' Users Who Call Trump Supporters 'Weird' Is Fake

[JoeP]

Snopes is weird too, though

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

It's hard to imagine a genius like Elon "Jews will not replace us" Musk believing in a fundamental right to advertising dollars or whatever that was, but there ya go.

The genius done pulled the trigger on his "I have an unqualified right to other people's money" litigation. And yes, of course,

US District Court for the Northern District of Texas

It is not at all difficult to imagine a certain trumpanzee federal district court judge standing there with piss cascading down his face while trumpeting Elon "Jews will not replace us" Musk's right to urinate wherever he pleases.

[viscousmemories]

I can't find it now so I don't know if it was fake or not, but I saw an image somewhere that was a screenshot of Musk predicting/stoking civil war (here and the uk? only the uk?) 5-6 times in the past 10 months. I can only find references to the most recent one. Anyway why isn't anyone talking about nationalizing Twitter? We should nationalize Twitter.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

And Amazon and PayPal.

eta: Walmart

[viscousmemories]

Speaking of PayPal, this whole segment of Sam Seder mocking billionaire Reid Hoffman was just hilarious.

Host STUNNED By Billionaire's Totally Out Of Touch Weirdo Behavior - YouTube

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

It's surely inevitable now that there will be a crackdown on social media companies in the UK. Ireland, where most of them have their EU HQs, has already said there'll be a crackdown there. And you can bet that Brussels will be observing with great interest.

— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) August 10, 2024

[fragment]

If Elon owes the banks $13 billion, the banks have a problem...

The $13 billion that Elon Musk borrowed to buy Twitter has turned into the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the 2008-09 financial crisis...

Servicing the loans isn’t helping X’s financial health. Even before rates stopped rising, Musk said its annual interest payments total around $1.5 billion...

Paper losses on the debt have dented bank profits, and holding high-risk loans directly on the balance sheet attracts more scrutiny from regulators. Because of Twitter and other hung deals, some of the banks also scaled back how much they lent in providing capital for merger-finance deals, according to some of the people...

Barclays’s top investment bankers on the mergers and acquisitions team were told at a New York dinner early last year that compensation for everyone in the room would be cut by at least 40% from the prior year. The bank had several hung deals hurting its performance but X was by far the largest, according to people familiar with the situation.

[beyelzu]

Originally Posted by BrotherMan

MAGAist are skibidi weird

I prefer MAGAts, probably because it’s got more inherent disdain.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I might have to frame this one!? pic.twitter.com/cctj0yHdFN

— William Coffin (@CoffinItUp) August 25, 2024

Eventually they did get suspended apparently.

[beyelzu]

Free speech absolutist is suspending reporters.

X—the social media platform formerly known as Twitter—suspended Ken Klippenstein's account Thursday after the investigative journalist posted an article containing a link to a dossier on Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate JD Vance that allegedly came from an Iranian hack of former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

X Suspends Journalist Ken Klippenstein Over Publication of JD Vance Dossier | Common Dreams

I just don’t remember people being reticent to cover Russian hacked stuff in the last election cycle.

Musk isn’t alone in silencing this story as the Vance info was part of the Iranian hacking.

The Times and The Post later reported that they, too, had been sent a similar cache, including a 271-page document on Vance dated Feb. 23 and labeled “privileged & confidential,” that the outlets said was based on publicly available information.

News outlets were sent leaked Trump campaign files. They chose not to publish them | CNN Business

Also note, that the Vance stuff was based on “publicly available information”

[-FX-]

Originally Posted by beyelzu

I just don’t remember people being reticent to cover Russian hacked stuff in the last election cycle.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


















HA!

[-FX-]

Twitter executives knowingly squashed the story on Twitter, attempting to make it go away with claims the information in the story was retrieved via illegal hacking.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Bluesky enshitification starts now

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report | Elon Musk | The Guardian

[seebs]

x.com

EXCLUSIVE

Elon Musk worked in the US illegally. Investors ordered him to get a visa. He admitted it in an email.

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally - The Washington Post by ⁦@faizsays⁩ ⁦@NickMiroff⁩ & me https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...ration-status/

This has been commented on in the past. Also heard he never actually did his degree, he just used it as an excuse to be in the country, worked illegally, got lucky on paypal, and then pressured the school to quietly pretend he got a degree.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

21 Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come follow me.