Elon Musk and Twitter Reach Deal for Sale (Update: WSJ report details Musk’s relationship with Putin) (1 Viewer)

[SaintForLife]

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.

Elon Musk and Twitter Reach Deal for Sale

Twitter agreed to be taken over at $54.20 a share, a 38 percent premium over the share price before it was revealed that Mr. Musk had been buying up the company’s stock.

www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org

If Musk does what he claims he wants to do it will be a big improvement and good for free speech.

 

[MT15]

Please point out the threats here, SFL. You know, people who show they are total dishonest hacks aren’t being threatened when other people simply point out the obvious. This is embarrassing. The performative pearl-clutching faux victimhood is breathtaking.

so is this:

 

[MT15]

Lol

 

[SaintForLife]

Please point out the threats here, SFL. You know, people who show they are total dishonest hacks aren’t being threatened when other people simply point out the obvious. This is embarrassing. The performative pearl-clutching faux victimhood is breathtaking.

so is this:

That tweet is mocking people who accuse others of Stochastic Terrorism when they don't like what they are saying and want to link them to violence.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[MT15]

That tweet is mocking people who accuse others of Stochastic Terrorism when they don't like what they are saying and want to link them to violence.

Oh sure. If that’s true it’s a really bad look for GG especially since right wing nut jobs are killing people almost every week.

 

[MT15]

Exactly. I don’t see how anyone can take Weiss, Taibbi or GG seriously. They’re buffoons. And they’re making their followers into buffoons as well.

 

[SaintForLife]

How would you explain this one?

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

Please find a new buzzword and move on from "Stochastic Terrorism." You are way too predictable. And now Bari Weiss? Oy gevalt!

 

[MT15]

Tom really nails this:

 

[cuddlemonkey]

How would you explain this one?

Gee, I wonder why Bari left out the entire phrase?

 

[CoolBrees]

For the people in the back.


Twitter isn’t the government. They are a private company

They can blacklist or promote whoever they want as long as it isn’t for being a member of a protected class. They don’t have to tell you, either. The constitution doesn’t exist on their platform.

Why do people think this is some big deal? Companies, People or products are promoted or blacklisted by other companies all of the time. It is a common practice. They don’t tell you either.

 

[MT15]

 

[MT15]

How would you explain this one?

Did Bari ever provide what the rest of the memo said? I’m not reading all of her propaganda, but she certainly seems to have cut off the screen shot at a convenient place.

Here is the plainest interpretation of what the memo is saying (as much of it as we can see)



This is embarrassing from Weiss. It’s embarrassing to anyone who is swallowing this baloney. Lol.

 

[MT15]

Twitter would have been remiss had they not suspended Libs of TikTok. This account was stirring up hateful responses, and then celebrating them. They were also celebrating the suicides of people they targeted.

If Twitter allowed them to stay after knowing the real world consequences, they would have been promoting the hate by association.

 

[MT15]

Another idiot weighs in:

 

[superchuck500]

How would you explain this one?

Suspension for “continued targeting”? I dunno sounds like the company thought it was appropriate to suspend for the targeting activity.

 

[Optimus Prime]

……..But national security experts and former social media executives who spoke to The Independent in the days following Mr Musk’s leaking of internal company documents to a sympathetic former Rolling Stone journalist say the limited excerpts of the documents revealed in a lengthy Twitter thread late Friday show nothing out of the ordinary — and nothing even close to what Mr Musk alleges.

The Tesla and SpaceX executive turned social media impresario had spent days hyping what he had dubbed the “Twitter Files” on the site he purchased in late October. In responses to a succession of right-wing media figures and pro-Trump trolls, he suggested the previous management team at Twitter had implemented policies aimed at suppressing speech from conservatives as a way of helping elect Democrats to high office……

Like Taibbi, Mr Musk, and other pro-Trump Republicans, Mr Schmitt has sought to portray the Bureau’s contact with social media companies as censorious, out of character with the law enforcement agency’s usual practices, and a deliberate attempt by so-called “deep state” actors to put thumbs on the scales for Mr Biden in the most recent presidential election.

But Katie Harbath, a former top Facebook public policy executive who previously served in senior roles at the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and other Republican campaigns, told The Independent that the social media companies’ work with federal law enforcement had less to do with 2020 than it did with what had happened four years earlier, when Russian government hackers were able to dump huge caches of stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee and top Hillary Clinton campaign officials onto social media sites.

“A lot of it came out of criticism following 2016 that there wasn’t enough collaboration,” she said when reached by Twitter direct message.

She later added that what Mr Musk, Taibbi, and others have “described as collusion” was in fact “more an effort to avoid being used by foreign influence ops”……

The truth of Twitter’s role in Hunter Biden laptop story and it’s not what you think

Former FBI counterintelligence officials tell Andrew Feinberg it would have been unusual for there not to have been any contact between the bureau and social media giants

www.independent.co.uk

 

[SamAndreas]

That tweet is mocking people who accuse others of Stochastic Terrorism when they don't like what they are saying and want to link them to violence.

My whole life is the length of time for which I have never seen nor heard anyone use the term stochastic.

I was able to pretty much guess what it meant from the roots from which it was formed. But to have ever seen it's usage during my life time, no.