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]

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Literally and figuratively a shirtty place to work
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Twitter staff have been forced to bring their own toilet paper into “smelly offices” after Elon Musk fired the company’s janitorial staff, says a report.

The billionaire has got rid of cleaning staff at Twitter’s New York offices and cancelled cleaning service at the San Franciscoheadquarters earlier this month after they went on strike for a better deal.

Mr Musk, whose company has missed rent payments on the San Francisco office, has closed four of its floors and moved all staff onto two floors.

According to The New York Times, people familiar with the moves say it has left the California office in “disarray.”


“With people packed into more confined spaces, the smell of leftover takeout food and body odor has lingered on the floors, according to four current and former employees,” reported the newspaper……..

Twitter staff forced to provide own toilet paper at ‘smelly offices’

‘BYOTP! Lol, it was true for half a day’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[zztop]

supposedly he has some "Fauci files" he has been teasing that he'll release

 

[MT15]

Reinstating this traitor on the anniversary of Jan 6 is pretty terrible, even for Musk. To be fair, it’s possible Flynn was reinstated earlier and it was the traitor’s idea to make today his appearance.

 

[MT15]

Lol

 

[SamAndreas]

Lol

In this Elon Musk is correct and the Skullsinthestars is misguided.

The question was, "is an electric rocket possible"?

A rocket is a device which operates at least some of the time in an atmosphere, with it's goal to break free of a planetary gravity well. An Ion electric thruster is not a rocket engine. It will not function in even the slightest amount of atmosphere due to Newton's third law. The atmosphere the ions impact will negate its exhaust effect, and as thus its equal and opposite reaction effect completely.

An ion thrust engine attempting to operating in atmosphere will create hot plasma and x-rays for the brief moment before it burns its electric elements and power supply out.

Ion engines can propel deep space craft in a deep vacuum, but that wasn't a part of the question. Musk was not asked, "is an electric deep space craft possible"?

Had he been asked that I would imagine he would have said "Yes."

 

[SaintForLife]

This was pretty obvious, but there are still plenty of people that believe $100,000 of Russian Facebook adds swung the election for Trump.

 

[The moose]

Exclusive: Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge Hours After Elon Musk Announces “Self-Driving” Feature

Musk has said Tesla’s problematic autopilot features are “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.”

theintercept.com

This is video footage of a tesla just hours after the beta full self driving software was made available.

The Twitter doesn't need his attention right now.

 

[MT15]

This was pretty obvious, but there are still plenty of people that believe $100,000 of Russian Facebook adds swung the election for Trump.

You either don’t understand how social media works, or you are deliberately spreading misinformation.
It’s not about the paid ads and never has been. GG, for whatever reason that only he knows, is being dishonest. He knows better or he should. You may not know better, but by now you should as well.

 

[SaintForLife]

You either don’t understand how social media works, or you are deliberately spreading misinformation.
It’s not about the paid ads and never has been. GG, for whatever reason that only he knows, is being dishonest. He knows better or he should. You may not know better, but by now you should as well.

If it's not about paid ads what is it?

 

[MT15]

If it's not about paid ads what is it?

It’s about influence on social media. Always has been. Most of the influence didn’t come from the paid ads, it came from memes, building a network of followers, planting your propaganda with these followers, getting it in front of millions of people who are predisposed to believe the lies.

How did QAnon get so powerful and pervasive? They didn’t buy a single ad, they did it with influence.

You should immediately know that the people who are pointing to the ad buys and using them to discredit what Russia and other nations did (and are doing) are not being honest with you.

 

[SaintForLife]

It’s about influence on social media. Always has been. Most of the influence didn’t come from the paid ads, it came from memes, building a network of followers, planting your propaganda with these followers, getting it in front of millions of people who are predisposed to believe the lies.

How did QAnon get so powerful and pervasive? They didn’t buy a single ad, they did it with influence.

You should immediately know that the people who are pointing to the ad buys and using them to discredit what Russia and other nations did (and are doing) are not being honest with you.

Revisionist history. The left and the media made a big deal about the Russian Facebook ads.

"These are the ads at the center of Russia’s election interference campaign"

Congress just published all the Russian Facebook ads used to try and influence the 2016 election

www-vox-com.cdn.ampproject.org

These Are the Ads Russia Bought on Facebook in 2016 (Published 2017)

A look at some of the ads designed by Russia to exploit divisions in American society and to tip the 2016 election in favor of Donald J. Trump.

www.nytimes.com

Thousands of Facebook ads bought by Russians to fool U.S. voters released by Congress

The release of Facebook ads gives the public its first in-depth glimpse into the Russian campaign to sow discord among Americans during the presidential election.

www.usatoday.com

How Russian Facebook Ads Divided and Targeted US Voters Before the 2016 Election

New research shows just how prevalent political advertising was from suspicious groups in 2016—including Russian trolls.

www.wired.com

Facebook ads show Russian effort to stoke political division

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the House intelligence committee have released more than 3,500 Facebook ads that were created or promoted by a Russian internet agency, providing the fullest picture yet of Russia's attempt to sow racial and political division in the United States before and after the

apnews.com

 

[MT15]

Revisionist history. The left and the media made a big deal about the Russian Facebook ads.

"These are the ads at the center of Russia’s election interference campaign"

Congress just published all the Russian Facebook ads used to try and influence the 2016 election

www-vox-com.cdn.ampproject.org

These Are the Ads Russia Bought on Facebook in 2016 (Published 2017)

A look at some of the ads designed by Russia to exploit divisions in American society and to tip the 2016 election in favor of Donald J. Trump.

www.nytimes.com

Thousands of Facebook ads bought by Russians to fool U.S. voters released by Congress

The release of Facebook ads gives the public its first in-depth glimpse into the Russian campaign to sow discord among Americans during the presidential election.

www.usatoday.com

How Russian Facebook Ads Divided and Targeted US Voters Before the 2016 Election

New research shows just how prevalent political advertising was from suspicious groups in 2016—including Russian trolls.

www.wired.com

Facebook ads show Russian effort to stoke political division

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the House intelligence committee have released more than 3,500 Facebook ads that were created or promoted by a Russian internet agency, providing the fullest picture yet of Russia's attempt to sow racial and political division in the United States before and after the

apnews.com

It’s not revisionist history. The ads were part of it, and it was a big deal to find out exactly what was purchased and that FB allowed it. It is a big story.

But it wasn’t the only way Russia tried to influence the election, and to pretend that it was is dishonest.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

It’s not revisionist history. The ads were part of it, and it was a big deal to find out exactly what was purchased and that FB allowed it. It is a big story.

But it wasn’t the only way Russia tried to influence the election, and to pretend that it was is dishonest.

In fact, there are studies and contemporary reporting that covered more than just the ads, including the revelation that one of these troll farms had a monthly budget of 1.25 million dollars. This was clearly about more than 100K in ad buys.

Edit: Tagging @SaintForLife so he will get a notification and doesn't accidentally miss it.

 

[RobF]

In fact, there are studies and contemporary reporting that covered more than just the ads, including the revelation that one of these troll farms had a monthly budget of 1.25 million dollars. This was clearly about more than 100K in ad buys.

Edit: Tagging @SaintForLife so he will get a notification and doesn't accidentally miss it.

Even if we did just consider the ads, it's glaringly obvious that SFL is quoting tweets about a study into the impact of adverts on twitter while solely talking about (and linking to previous articles about) adverts on facebook.

Especially when the Washington Post article embedded in his first tweet explicitly states (bold original from article), "But the study doesn’t go so far as to say that Russia had no influence on people who voted for President Donald Trump. It doesn’t examine other social media, like the much-larger Facebook."

There are, obviously, significant differences in the two platforms and how people interact with them. And we should not, of course, only consider the ads anyway. But that's the repeating pattern we see here: where certain people spend their time, or even make their living, by loudly proclaiming definitive conclusions while simultaneously demonstrating that they don't understand the subject they're talking about, or that they hope their audience doesn't, or both.

 

[MT15]

SFL has chosen to read and believe people who are trying to mislead him. In the beginning this is all on them. For whatever reason, for notoriety or money or influence, they chose to skew facts and tell lies for a narrative.

But at some point, especially after so many times of having the falsehoods and misrepresentations pointed out to him, literally for years now, it has to be on him. It just does.