Elon Musk Buys X (formerly Twitter): Just Use Bluesky, Threads, or Mastodon Instead

[Lily Adler]

Threads

For those who want to try and use it.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

This would never hold up in court.

 

[Teelie]

Gizmodo - Elon’s Twitter Is Coming for Your Biometric Data and Employment History

My account is suspended for... reasons I never got an explanation for despite literally never having tweeted, liked, followed or done anything with it. Unfortunately that means I can't delete it but I can let it sit disused and abandoned so it eventually does get deleted. Just might take two years. Fortunately nothing on it is actually accurate so they can have my fake profile.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

As the nation reckons with bigotry and hate, ADL continues its unwavering support in the fight for democracy, social justice and civil rights.

As one of the most privileged $$$ straight white men in all of human history, Melon has no use for such things. But it isn't new like Melon claims.

 

[Teelie]

Naturally Musk thinks a racist tax is a good idea.

 

[squeekness]

Naturally Musk thinks a racist tax is a good idea.

Whatever makes him money, right?

 

[Iceman]

My account is suspended for... reasons I never got an explanation for despite literally never having tweeted, liked, followed or done anything with it. Unfortunately that means I can't delete it but I can let it sit disused and abandoned so it eventually does get deleted. Just might take two years. Fortunately nothing on it is actually accurate so they can have my fake profile.

Twitter’s online safety moderation:

Do nothing with a virtually dormant account - get suspended.

Incite coups, promote international state propaganda during wartime etc - all good.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Independent - Elon Musk’s Twitter bans ad showing Republican interrupting couple in bedroom

It's Melon's toy landfill to decide the parameters of, but when he and his fellow creeps say 'free speech' what they really mean is hate speech.

see also

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

"How dare you accuse me of making twitter a safe haven for neo nazis and provide them with a platform when that's exactly what I did?"

- nazi-LON Musk

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[Sithborg]

I don't think banning the ADL is going to make things better with advertisers.

I wonder how bad he yelled at Yaccirino over her meeting with the ADL.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Melon blames Jews for anti-semitism:

Mediaite - Elon Musk Wildly Attacks The ADL As One Of ‘The Biggest Generators Of Anti-Semitism’ In Reply to Notorious White Nationalist

The Jerusalem Post - Elon Musk amplifies self-declared antisemite’s call to ban ADL from X

The Guardian - Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses
Lawsuit says network discloses user data at request of Saudi authorities at much higher rate than for US, UK and Canada

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Forbes - Elon Musk Thinks X Could Become A Trillion Dollar Company—Here Are The Challenges Facing The Platform Since He Took Over (August 23)

Melon: 'I would have had a trillion dollar company if it weren't for the Jews'

Changing the name to 'X' erased billions of value according to branding experts. It's collapsed in position in many app store search/installation top charts.

 

[Sithborg]

Yeah, with the name change I question if it is even worth a billion.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Washington Post - Musk says George Soros ‘hates humanity,’ compares him to Jewish supervillain (May 2023)
The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League condemned Elon Musk’s comparison of Soros to Magneto — a Marvel villain who opposes humanity

BBC News - Elon Musk: I will say what I want even if it costs me (May 2023)
Mr Musk was responding to accusations of antisemitism on Twitter, after his tweet George Soros "hates humanity" was criticised by the Israeli government. The tweet was seen as playing into frequently debunked conspiracy theories about the Jewish philanthropist. ... Soros Fund Management cut back the shares it owned in Mr Musk's Tesla company, in May. But company founder Mr Soros is a regular target of conspiracy theories by right-wing figures in the US. And the Israel Foreign Ministry retweeted a post from the country's digital diplomacy director, David Saranga, sharing Twitter trending figures showing more than 27,000 tweets using the term "The Jews" following Mr Musk's post.

 

[Mani-Man]

A wild as hell timeline.

To sum it up, Musk did everything he could to destroy Twitters value...which included allowing literal nazis back that raised antisemitism on the platform more than 50%.
Everyone who points it out, community notes that question him get deleted.

Then he goes on to say he is super pro free speech and is against antisemitism, is insulted at what he calls false accusations.
Before he falsely claims the jewish are the reason twitter is losing value.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Haaretz (Israel) - Elon Musk defends himself from antisemitism allegations while victim blaming Jews

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Forward - Elon Musk has made some disturbing comments about Jews. Here’s a list (June 9, 2023)


Daily Kos - Elon Musk blames X's failings on Jews

That’s right. After months in which Musk has supported racist rants; encouraged hate speech; elevated literal Nazi propaganda; fired every Twitter employee in Brazil on suspicion of being too liberal; fired the entire company press office and the entire company communications department; decimated the team responsible for content moderation; terrified advertisers with chaos, irresponsibility, and perpetuating racism; and thrown away global brand recognition by renaming the whole platform to indulge a personal whim, Musk has put his finger on the real issue.

It’s the Jews.

Two days before launching into his extended ADL related rant, Musk responded to a post suggesting that he might run a poll to ban the ADL from Twitter.

The person behind that post is a Dutch commentator who describes herself as the “Shieldmaiden of the far right” and whose other posts focus on how “the once great country of Germany” has turned into “Zombieland” because of immigration, how the “wicked globalists” are threatening our freedom, how the COVID-19 pandemic is fake, and how vaccines are “gene therapy.” Also, she gives beauty tips.

Which of these things caused Musk to be following this person’s account isn’t clear, but it was probably not the beauty tips.

Apparently Musk spent the next 48 hours warmed by neo-Nazi support for banning the ADL. He decided Monday would be an excellent day to blame them for everything that has gone wrong in his $44 billion money pit since he walked through the door.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

TechDirt - Hey Elon: The ADL Convincing Advertisers To Run Away From Your Site Is Part Of The Free Speech You Pretend To Support

So, first of all, math genius, if $4 billion is 10% of the "value destruction," that means Elon is actually saying that $40 billion in value has been destroyed since he purchased the company, which would place the current value at $4 billion. But… I'm guessing he's just confused and means 10% of the overall value of the company. Or that he's just not that smart.

 

[Lily Adler]

Again thank God he can't run for president.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

That’s so nice of SpaceX to serve as Melon’s bank.

WSJ News Exclusive | Elon Musk Borrowed $1 Billion From SpaceX in Same Month of Twitter Acquisition
Rocket maker has lent the executive money on several occasions over the past few years

 

[Mani-Man]

Again thank God he can't run for president.

Hardly a Comfort seeing who can in America.
Like, there are people actually in the government and able to run, that Believe and agree with him.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Daily Beast - Enough! Advertisers and Governments Must Dump Elon Musk. (Op-Ed)

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - Musk Wants to Fold Neuralink and Tesla Into One Big Weird AI Company
A profile of the billionaire claims he hopes to use data harvested from Twitter users and Tesla's Full Self-Driving Cameras to train a powerful new AI model.

You know he’d like to merge Twitter and SpaceX and Tesla all into one company to bail himself out if it were possible.