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Musk: ‘Twitter Will Not Censor Accurate Information About Anything’
On Saturday, new Twitter head Elon Musk announced changes to Twitter’s censorship rules, insisting that “Twitter will not censor accurate information about anything.” The response came in question to a query about Twitter’s election censorship policies from Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
The declaration follows a promise he made last month that he will “look into” one-sided censorship during the 2022 midterm election season.
I like Spoon's point about if Twitter is such an "a$$" platform, like everyone seems to be saying, then why are they even on it, let alone b!tching about paying $8 to be verified.
because the loved the platform before Elon took over .. now for $ 8 any rube can be verified ... there unique status is for sale to anyone,.
That Might matter to me if I had a clue who this dude is, and why he matters to anyone save his parents.
That's Elon, but looking at him makes me wonder if John Candy was his Dad. Or are you talking about Ryan, him no clue also.
Elon, know who he is. The other
Elon Musk warns Twitter employees of ‘difficult times ahead,' ends remote work: report
Hours after Twitter CEO Elon Musk admittedly predicted he will do "lots of dumb things" as he learns to helm the new social media platform, he told his employees to brace for "difficult times ahead," according to a report.
In a mass email Wednesday afternoon, Musk said there was "no way to sugarcoat the message" and that employees should expect changes concerning office policy, according to Bloomberg News.
The email allegedly said Musk will discontinue remote work and will be requiring employees to be in the office for at least 40 hours per week. Any exceptions would need his personal approval.
Musk reportedly said he expected half of Twitter’s revenue to come through a subscription service and his newly proposed verification fee. He also said content creators will be able to monetize their pages to supporters, without further elaboration.
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Hours after Twitter CEO Elon Musk admittedly predicted he will do "lots of dumb things" as he learns to helm the new social media platform, he told his employees to brace for "difficult times ahead," according to a report.
In a mass email Wednesday afternoon, Musk said there was "no way to sugarcoat the message" and that employees should expect changes concerning office policy, according to Bloomberg News.
The email allegedly said Musk will discontinue remote work and will be requiring employees to be in the office for at least 40 hours per week. Any exceptions would need his personal approval.
Musk reportedly said he expected half of Twitter’s revenue to come through a subscription service and his newly proposed verification fee. He also said content creators will be able to monetize their pages to supporters, without further elaboration.
Elon Musk warns Twitter employees of ‘difficult times ahead,' ends remote work: report
Twitter owner Elon Musk informed employees of new changes he would be bringing to the office, including the discontinuation of remote work and a required 40-hour work week.
Biden floats national security review of Musk's Twitter purchase as UN, EU demand censorship
The new owner should stand up for free expression "to the full extent possible under relevant laws" and transparently share "government requests — or pressures — that infringe those rights," Turk told Musk. But Twitter must not "amplify" the "viral spread of harmful information," such as that related to COVID-19 vaccines, that "results in real world harms."
It must not let up on removing "hatred" from the platform, and its content moderation capacity must be sufficient to cover "all the languages and contexts in which it does business," Turk said.
His feelings appear to be reflected in the UN General Assembly, which applauded sweeping calls for internationally coordinated censorship by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, "the smiling face of the new generation of censors" in Turley's words.
Ardern compared purported disinformation to the threats posed by the "old weapons" of war. "We came together as communities to minimize these threats," she said. "We created international rules, norms and expectations. We never saw that as a threat to our individual liberties — rather, it was a preservation of them. The same must apply now as we take on these new challenges."
As soon as Musk declared the deal closed, a European Union official implied it could block the platform across the continent if Musk didn't submit to its narrow conception of free speech in the Digital Services Act.
"In Europe, the bird will fly by our [EU] rules," Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted, reminding Musk of the acquiescent video he made with the bureaucrat after starting the acquisition process.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said Twitter must engage in "direct consultation with experts in countering digital hate & misinformation" before reinstating suspended users such as former President Trump.
Twitter’s content moderation head quits as departures alarm the FTC
The departures prompted a rare warning from the Federal Trade Commission, which has emerged as the government’s top Silicon Valley watchdog. It marked the second time in two days that a federal official has expressed concern about the chaotic developments at the company, coming less than 24 hours after President Biden said Musk’s relationships with other countries deserved scrutiny.
The agency said that it was “tracking the developments at Twitter with deep concern” and that it was prepared to take action to ensure the company was complying with a settlement known as a consent order, which requires Twitter to comply with certain privacy and security requirements because of allegations of past data misuse.
Twitter was first put under a consent order in 2011, and it agreed to a new order earlier this year. If the FTC finds Twitter is not complying with that order, it could fine the company hundreds of millions of dollars, potentially damaging the company’s already precarious financial state.
“No CEO or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees,” said Douglas Farrar, the FTC’s director of public affairs. “Our revised consent order gives us new tools to ensure compliance, and we are prepared to use them.”
Elon will find somebody asap to play gatekeeper.
Musk’s lawyer scrambles to calm Twitter staffers who fear jail over FTC scrutiny
In a memo to staffers, attorney Alex Spiro sought to downplay concerns that Twitter’s remaining employees could be held personally liable if the company was found to have violated the Federal Trade Commission’s regulations.
Twitter is bound by a 2011 consent decree requiring regular updates affirming security protections for new features – a process made more fraught by the rapid pace of Musk’s overhaul of the social media site.
“I understand that there have been employees at Twitter who do not even work on the FTC matter commenting that they could go to jail if we were not in compliance — that is simply not how this works,” wrote Spiro, an attorney at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.
“It is the company’s obligation. It is the company’s burden. It is the company’s liability,” Spiro added in the memo, which was first reported by Insider.
The Post has reached out to Twitter for comment.
Someone Paid $8 For Twitter Blue And Erased $5 Billion In Market Cap From A Big Defense Company
“Basically, tricking people is not OK,” Musk tweeted, as some users began reporting that the option to pay $7.99 for a Twitter Blue subscription had disappeared, while others who had been verified previously found that their “Official” blue checkmarks had been reinstated.
On Thursday night, a fake Lockheed Martin account with the handle @LockheedMartini and a Twitter Blue checkmark tweeted the aerospace and weapons maker will stop sales to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S. “until further investigation into their record of human rights abuses.”
So someone paid $8 for Twitter blue and erased $5 billion in market cap from a big defense company!
In another example someone paid $8 for Twitter blue and wiped out $15 billion in market cap from a big pharmaceutical company
The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly saw a 4.5 percent drop in its stock after a single tweet.
“We are excited to announce insulin is free now,” read the post from a fake Eli Lilly account that had purchased a blue verification check mark using Musk’s new Twitter Blue subscription option. The account has since lost its blue check mark and gone private.
