X is placing ads for Amazon, NBA Mexico, NBCUniversal, and others next to content with white nationalist hashtags::undefined
At this point, is there any doubt that destroying Twitter was the entire point?
Taking something away from the woke journalists & tech activists and giving it to the Nazis? Yeah, if that wasn't the entire point, it certainly was a "nice to have" for Elon.
He could've just shut it down at any time. I doubt he planned the destruction of his reputation. He's gone from tech boy wonder to being widely loathed. It's hurt his other companies as well but, more personally, it's so obvious from his posts that he's desperate to be loved and revered.
He just really sucks. Being surrounded by people who never criticize or challenge him unshockingly doesn't improve things either.
My understanding is that the SEC would have fucked him if he just shut it down, because it would indicate that he never intended to buy it in the first place and instead was just trying to manipulate the stock market (which is definitely what he was doing).
How is this benefiting him in any way? Even financially?
It's not. He never wanted to buy twitter, he just wanted to pump and dump the stock, but because he is stupid and the plan was obvious they sued him to make him honor the deal.
So if he just turned around and shut the company down, it would give the SEC legal grounds to argue that his intention all along was market manipulation.
This here is the real answer; Elon doesn’t want X now and he never wanted Twitter. Much like Trump falling arse-backwards into the US Presidency he never actually wanted, he’s now just manipulating the thing he didn’t actually want, but now has, to follow his ego and whims. Trump’s presidency and Elon’s ownership of Twitter share a lot of similarities. Far, far too many similarities.
For what purpose would he attach his baby of X to the Twitter he is intentionally trying to kill?
He could have just done nothing with the company, hired someone to put in charge and say "you have a year to make Twitter profitable", and when that inevitably fails shut it down.
He didn't have to tank his reputation. All the time he's spending running Twitter into the ground he could have instead done nothing, and still shut it down in the same time frame for being "not-profitable". Enough time would have passed for him to get away with it, and would have lost less money in the process.
So even if his plan is to destroy Twitter, he's still an idiot doing it in the dumbest way possible.
If he were smarter and/or not a walking ego then yeah, that would have been the move. Though if he were smart he probably wouldn't be in this mess.
This is what has been making me wonder if Putin has dirt on him like he probably does on just about every Republican politician.
Well, if by "destroying" you mean "turning into a haven for right wing hatespeech", he was pretty open about that. I don't know that he understood that connection though.
Yes, a move from far left to right of the middle is extreme!
"middle"
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Well known far-left person, billionaire Elon Musk
Aye that checks out
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Why is it that every time someone uses the term far left they are some kind of illiterate moron? There is no far left represented anywhere in western politics. You'd know far left when you saw it, right before the fucking molotov smashed you in the face.
Thing is with Twitter, before the take over, didn't they suppress and delete all the views they didn't agree with, aka twitter files? If that's not extreme, I don't know what is. I call it an outlying position on which normal "left" voters wouldn't go as far to do, therefore "far".
I was an asshole here and have retracted the comment. Don't lemmy when angry, folks!
He absolutely did not buy it to kill it, he just wanted something he could control after he entered into the “disgusting ultra rich fascist” stage, as previously he pretended to lean liberal. Also why the saudis donated so much of the purchase price
If that’s what you mean by “destroy”, then no, no doubt at all.
I don’t think so. The man is truly stupid.
I've been starting to wonder if Russia has kompromat on him too, and his charge is to just cause general chaos, and yes, as you said, probably eventually shut down Twitter altogether.
My conspiracy theory is he used Russian bots to hype his pump and dump Twitter scheems, which would explain why he and Putin have open contacts and had a meeting. Also then you can view the purchasing of twitter as control over the evidence.
So instead of buying Twitter, not touching it for a year, and then shutting it down because it's "not profitable" he would rather people think he's incompetent?
Either he's an idiot man-child who shouldn't be allowed to be put in charge of anything, or he wants people to think he's an idiot man-child who shouldn't be allowed to be put in charge of anything. Either way I'm happy to oblige.
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Instead of condemning those pro-Nazi accounts, Musk attacked Media Matters as “an evil organization.” He also agreed with a post attacking IBM.
No one could have predicted this would be his reaction. No one.
Good. Now the companies in question can object to being advertised alongside hate speech, drop their funding, and create pressure for Musk to clean up the hateful accounts and hashtags that are forming an ever-thickening layer of scum on the surface of the Twitter pond. Or, you know, just hasten the merciful demise of this shitty platform.
Either way, the problem is the hate speech being allowed in the first place, not the hamfisted advertising strategy being peddled alongside it.
Or it normalizes white supremacy. But I hope most of these huge companies know which side their worker bread is buttered on.
Yeah but their financial bread is buttered by outrage.
I mean, they had to know this was gonna happen eventually as soon as Elon took over.
Not for long me thinks.
And only Apple stood up to it…
Can anyone link the actual tweets? Can only find articles about the tweets
There were screenshots at the article in the link.
Ah didn't scroll far enough thanks
But I don't see which one he specifically replied "truth" to or whatever
I believe this is the one you're referring to (screenshot because it won't let me see the actual post without an account?): https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines/status/1724918411438805153
Link to actual post he was replying to: https://twitter.com/breakingbaht/status/1724892505647296620
Thanks that's what I was lookin for
X is soon to be the biggest ad-free social media site! genius!
