Musk posted a 24-hour Twitter poll asking users to decide if the controversial Trump, who recently announced a new run for the White House, should be reinstated on the embattled platform.
In the end, more than 15 million people voted, with those choosing to reinstate Trump taking 51.8% of the vote to 48.2% who said no.
Elon Musk inspires more meltdowns amid a sense that anything can and will happen
In the film Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen’s Captain Willard comes upon a remote outpost defending a bridge. Hoping to confer with the commander, he instead finds a delirious state of chaos. A machine gunner fires heavy caliber rounds into the night while trading taunts with an unseen member of the Viet Cong.
Elon Musk is running a Twitter poll on whether he should reinstate former President Donald Trump to the platform, with early results showing slightly half of participants voting “yes.”
“Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” tweeted Musk, mere minutes after posting the poll at 7:47 pm Friday. The Latin phrase means “the voice of the people is the voice of God.” The poll was set to remain open for 24 hours.
Reinstate former President Trump
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022
Not sure if Trump would come back. Given his announced run it would make sense.
Today Elon Musk announced that Twitter’s new policy is “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,” then explaining that the platform would be using the same shadowbanning system that has unfairly affected conservatives and has been criticized for years. Musk also announced that the Babylon Bee, Jordan Peterson, and Kathy Griffin had been restored to the platform, but that the “Trump decision has not yet been made.”
Business as usual. Never think an oligarch is your friend.
Hundreds of Twitter employees apparently quit Thursday after new CEO Elon Musk gave workers an ultimatum: commit to a “hardcore” work environment, or be fired.
The reported exodus threw Twitter into more turmoil and came as staffers at the social media giant were given a 5 p.m. Thursday deadline to sign onto Musk’s workplace pledge.
A scrolling message outside Twitter's San Francisco headquarters has called @elonmusk a "lawless oligarch, space Karen, mediocre manchild, worthless billionaire" and more @6NewsAU pic.twitter.com/PyXz0YaZmF
— Leonardo Puglisi (@Leo_Puglisi6) November 18, 2022
The deadwood are purging themselves. Good.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk, testifying at his Tesla compensation trial in Delaware, told the court that he plans to find someone else to run Twitter, according to a new report.
Musk also reportedly said that the fundamental restructuring of Twitter will be complete at the end of this week, and that the Tesla engineers whom he had asked to review code at Twitter worked on a voluntary basis.
Twitter workers who survived the chopping block after Elon Musk overpaid for the social media site will soon have to pay for their own meals.
The billionaire said he will scrap the free meals served at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco because it was costing the company around $400 per worker.
The new Twitter CEO isn’t like other billionaires
Even before he bought Twitter and started trolling AOC, expressing disdain for Elon Musk was regarded as a sure sign of sophistication among all correct-thinking people. All that had to be done was point out that his dad had owned an emerald mine and that he wasn’t the founder of Tesla. Richest man in the world? Anyone could do it.
Twitter Inc’s new owner Elon Musk on Thursday raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt, capping a chaotic day that included a warning from a U.S. privacy regulator and the exit of the company’s trust and safety leader.
The billionaire on his first mass call with employees said that he could not rule out bankruptcy, Bloomberg News reported, two weeks after buying it for $44 billion—a deal that credit experts say has left Twitter’s finances in a precarious position.
The Twitter executive who censored news reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop and referred to Trump officials as “actual Nazis” has quit the social media company.
Yoel Roth resigned as head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety division on Thursday, joining several other executives who quit in protest over the Twitter subscription service implemented by owner Elon Musk.
Joe Biden is focusing on the wrong social media giant
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden was asked if the U.S. government should investigate Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on national security grounds. The President responded that it was “worthy of being looked at”. Yet, strangely, there was no mention of TikTok, which poses a far greater threat to American national security.
Elon Musk has told Twitter staff that remote working will end and “difficult times” lie ahead, according to reports.
In an email to staff, the owner of the social media firm said workers would be expected in the office for at least 40 hours a week, Bloomberg reported.
Mr Musk added that there was “no way to sugar coat the message” that the slowing global economy was going to hit Twitter’s advertising revenues.
Will Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover have ‘big implications’ for Canada’s upcoming — and already contentious — online harms bill?
… Canadian lawmakers are already thinking about the battle ahead.
“The reality is Elon Musk and his takeover of Twitter have been disastrous, not just for the complete incoherence of Twitter, but the fact that he has — in a very real sense through his words and his actions — helped to promote hate,” said NDP heritage critic Peter Julian, who will be one of the MPs tasked with scrutinizing the online safety bill when it is introduced.
“The fact that they have gutted many of the jobs that were designed to curb hate through Twitter, and his deliberate fostering of disinformation and hate, is going to have an even greater impact.”
According to a recent report, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is considering putting the entire website behind a paywall after mass layoffs at the company and a new update to the site’s Twitter Blue premium service. This would require users to pay to even read content on the site.
Some now-fired Twitter employees are unintentionally making headlines left and right over their post-termination behavior, including their crying and whining.
Now on one hand, it’s very understandable that these former employees are upset. Being fired is a horrible experience. But on the other hand, say critics, these employees were responsible for God knows how many Americans being silenced and censored.
