On Tuesday, Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal announced that the social media platform will be appointing tech billionaire Elon Musk to the company’s board of directors. The announcement comes one day after it was revealed that Musk had bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter, thereby becoming the largest shareholder in the company with the purchase.
Parag Agrawal should be fired ASAP. He is un-American.
Top tech analyst Dan Ives said Monday morning that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s big share-buy of Twitter Inc. is “just the appetizer” of what’s to come from Musk taking on the social media platform.
Twitter shares surged on Monday after a regulator filing was released and showed the entrepreneur became the platform’s largest shareholder, taking 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc.
I hope Musk can save it.
Please….. https://t.co/XyPNxajPyj
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) April 5, 2022
Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% stake in Twitter, according to a US securities filing.
The news sent Twitter shares soaring about 25% in pre-market trading.
The Tesla founder bought 73,486,938 Twitter shares on 14 March, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The stake is worth $2.89bn (£2.20bn), based on Twitter’s closing price on Friday.
Twitter has been slammed after it failed to uphold a complaint about an alleged ‘death threat’ against author J.K. Rowling featured in a music video by a trans activist.
Trans campaigner Faye ‘Trust Fund Ozu’ included the threatening words as part of a 90’s-themed video titled ‘J.K. Rowling diss track’.
The video sees the singer against an animated backdrop with vocals about ‘killing TERFS’ [Trans exclusionary radical feminists’ and ‘J.K. hope you fit in a hearse’.
Musk conducted an informal poll on Twitter on Friday, which stated: “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?”
More than 2 million people responded to the poll with 70.4% saying that Twitter did not adhere to the principle.
Islamists can justify wife beating and call for killing millions of French on Twitter, but do not dare say “men cannot get pregnant” or you will be blocked.
Libertarian magazine Reason compared it to George Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth”. To ensure “the safety of users”, or to protect them from incorrect thoughts and words (Islamophobic, homophobic, migrantphobic, transophobic …), Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had seen fit to create an internal consulting group with a disturbing name: “Council for trust and security”. It may take a few years to figure out that it is tasked, as in Orwell’s 1984, with eliminating forbidden words and thoughts, so let’s look at what it has been doing.
The famous American satire site, The Babylon Bee, has just been suspended from Twitter. It had violated “trust and security”. Its director, Seth Dillon, said they were banned for a tweet mocking Rachel Levine, who identifies as a transgender and US public health service officer. “Babylon Bee’s Man of the Year is Rachel Levine,” reads the tweet.
Ontario Independent MPP Randy Hillier has been “permanently suspended” from Twitter as of Tuesday, after months of posting anti-COVID restriction rhetoric and support of the so-called “Freedom Convoy.”
Hillier’s account was “permanently suspended for violating (Twitter’s) COVID-19 misleading information policy,” a spokesperson for the app told the Star.
Invading another nation, bombing hospitals, and killing civilians is not enough to get you kicked off of Twitter, but calling for peace and order will get you banned.
Twitter confirmed it plays by partisan rules when the left’s agenda is threatened by refusing to take down the accounts of several corporate media propagandists who shared personal information from admittedly hacked donor lists on the social media platform.
Twitter is allowing posts to remain on its platform containing the private information of Freedom Convoy donors reportedly obtained through hacking, according to a review of Twitter’s platform by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Crowdfunding service GiveSendGo was reportedly hacked late Sunday and the personal information of donors to the Freedom Convoy, a group of truckers and individuals protesting Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions, was given to leak-hosting site Distributed Denial of Secrets, the organization said on its website. GiveSendGo has yet to publicly confirm the hack, and the company did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment early Monday.
Twitter VP Sinéad McSweeney warned of unprecedented authorities crackdowns on free speech and requests for surveillance of web customers within the platform’s newest transparency report.
It speaks volumes when Huge Tech executives sound the alarm on censorship. “In a change from our final reporting interval, the USA grew to become the one largest supply of presidency info requests with 3,026 requests, accounting for twenty-four% of the worldwide quantity we acquired throughout this era,” Twitter defined in the transparency report issued on Jan. 25. “These requests accounted for 27% of all accounts specified from around the globe and Twitter complied, in entire or partly, with 68% of those U.S. info requests.” “We’re going through unprecedented challenges as governments around the globe more and more try and intervene and take away content material,” the report quoted firm Vice President of World Public Coverage and Philanthropy McSweeney as saying. “This menace to privateness and freedom of expression is a deeply worrying pattern that requires our full consideration.”
Twitter is allowing official Iranian government accounts to issue death threats against former president Donald Trump and other Trump administration officials.
Twitter’s refusal to remove these ongoing threats is renewing congressional scrutiny on the social media platform. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime’s paramilitary fighting force that engages in terrorism and assassination plots, tweeted during the weekend that it will take revenge for the death of terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani, who two years ago was killed in Iraq in a drone strike ordered by Trump.
“I may be one of the very few that has this depth of understanding of the technology that doesn’t have a direct financial conflict of interest,” Malone told The Epoch Times. “If I’m not allowed to speak about my concerns, whether they’re right or wrong … who is a valid person to participate in the dialogue?”
On Saturday, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted: “Martyr Soleimani is an eternal reality that will live on forever. His assassins – including Trump & the like – will go down in history’s garbage bin, but of course after receiving retribution in this world for the crime they committed.” This is a clear threat, but Twitter has not banned or suspended Khamenei’s account. After all, he was threatening Donald Trump, and as far as Twitter is concerned, what could be wrong with that?
