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    Elon Musk struck a deal on Monday to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion, in a victory by the world’s richest man to take over the influential social network frequented by world leaders, celebrities and cultural trendsetters.

    Twitter agreed to sell itself to Mr. Musk for $54.20 a share, a 38 percent premium over the company’s share price this month before he revealed he was the firm’s single largest shareholder. It would be the largest deal to take a company private — something Mr. Musk has said he will do with Twitter — in at least two decades, according to data compiled by Dealogic.

    “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Mr. Musk said in a statement announcing the deal. “Twitter has tremendous potential — I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.”

    The deal, which has been unanimously approved by Twitter’s board, is expected to close this year, subject to a vote of Twitter shareholders and certain regulatory approvals.

    The blockbuster agreement caps what had seemed an improbable attempt by the famously mercurial Mr. Musk, 50, to buy the social media company — and immediately raises questions about what he will do with the platform and how his actions will affect online speech globally.




    If Musk does what he claims he wants to do it will be a big improvement and good for free speech.
     
    Making up an attack so he can ban accounts for Doxxing...SMH...

    California police say member of Elon Musk's security team is a suspect following stalker claim​



    I still don't understand why that got under his skin so much. It was never doxing. Elon was broadcasting his plane's position via the transponder. It was never private information to begin with.

    It would be like saying football fans are doxing when plane tracking season starts.

    Elon apparently could have taken steps to make this private. It's also really simple to circumvent in general. You send your plane one direction, and take a rented jet in another. College AD's go to some length to keep fans off their scent. I'm sure someone on Elon's team could have done the same.

    He comes across as entitled, uninformed, and lazy.
     
    It was miles away from his plane’s position that was posted, and at least 24 hours later, IIRC. And he wasn’t in that location anyway. It was incredibly stupid.

    The silver lining here is that now everyone knows what Musk is like and nobody (with any brains) still thinks he’s some sort of genius. Talk about ruining your brand, people should study him for what not to do. And I don’t think he will find that people will ever be fooled again by his act.
     
    But he knows his fans will believe him when he cries woke left fake news.. I compared him to Trump in that regard earlier. I was was wrong. I think he's going more in the Mike Lindell direction..
     
    Heard on the radio that he is officially stepping down as soon as a new CEO is in place.
     
    That’s a nice thought. I will reserve my hopes for now until we see who he hand-picks. I’m not hopeful that it will be anyone he cannot control or anyone remotely qualified.
     
    That’s a nice thought. I will reserve my hopes for now until we see who he hand-picks. I’m not hopeful that it will be anyone he cannot control or anyone remotely qualified.

    That was the caveat, that he has a history of hand-picking people from his inner circle and that he will still have ultimate control since he owns the company.
     
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    I read about a Twitter Spaces he had today where there was a somewhat technical discussion about Twitter and it’s workings. He was evidently completely unable to converse at any level, and was having people who were trying to tell him cut off. So then some guy on there said something to the effect that Elon you’re our hero and Plato would be proud of you. I shirt you not.

    I wish I understood the compulsion to lick the boots of guys like Musk and Trump. I just don’t get it.
     
    Twitter has removed a feature in the past few days that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, according to two people familiar with the matter, who said it was ordered by new owner Elon Musk.

    The removal of the feature, known as #ThereIsHelp, has not been previously reported. It had shown at the top of specific searches contacts for support organisations in many countries related to mental health, HIV, vaccines, child sexual exploitation, Covid19, gender-based violence, natural disasters and freedom of expression.

    Its elimination could add to concerns about the wellbeing of vulnerable users on Twitter. Musk has said that impressions, or views, of harmful content are declining since he took over in October and has tweeted graphs showing a downward trend, even as researchers and civil rights groups have tracked an increase in tweets with racial slurs and other hateful content……

     
    Here is but one example of what Twitter is full of now. This account is full-on pro-Putin propaganda. With fanboy posts about Musk, DeSantis, Trump thrown in as well, but mostly pro-Putin. Of course, that means non-stop disinformation about Ukraine and Zelensky.

     
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    That tweet just begs to be taken apart.

    "Confusing kids about their identity" - You mean forcing them to dress and behave as someone other than who they know themselves to be?

    "Stealing childhood innocence" - You mean watching their classmates get gunned down like dogs while the pigs stand around with their thumbs up their arses?

    "Porn in schools" - You mean the Bible?
     

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