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Dem Sen. Who Demanded Answers From Elon About 'Impersonation' Colluded With 'Impersonator'​

While Markey wanted to blame the impersonation on Musk, it was done by the reporter with the permission of Markey, as the reporter acknowledged, noting he first impersonated a comedian’s account and “Then I did my test again with the permission of a U.S. senator, Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.).”

Then Markey used it to blow a gasket and demand answers in a formal letter to Musk, even though he, Markey, had greenlit the effort.






But that wasn’t all. Markey didn’t just make those demands in that letter to Musk. Markey also warned Musk very specifically that if he didn’t “fix” his companies, Congress would fix them for him.






“One of your companies is under an FTC consent decree,” Markey ranted. “Auto safety watchdog NHTSA is investigating another for killing people. And you’re spending your time picking fights online. Fix your companies. Or Congress will.”

Did a sitting senator just threaten someone for trolling him, to go after him for speech or political position? It sure sounds like that. Who is the fascist again? Hint: It’s not the Republicans, it never was. Politicians serve us, they do not rule over us and get to threaten us for questioning them. This is neither normal nor proper.

One Twitter user also noted that Markey’s tweet was misleading.

 

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Oh, the Humanity! Elon Triggers the Left With His Most Evil Twitter Move Yet​

One of the things that he seems intent on doing is making the company a more viable and efficient workplace. I wrote last month about how it was more like a spa at the headquarters than a work environment, where people could work remotely if they chose to but if they came in they had meditation rooms, yoga areas, free food, and red wine on tap.




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How evil was Musk? No more free lunch at the company. Literally. He was going to make people…gasp…pay for their lunches — like most of the rest of the country.







This was how some on the left took it: that Musk was evil “incarnate” who was now “starving” employees. It was such a window into how the left thinks.








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Elon Musk schools fired Twitter employee on why free lunches he nixed cost over $400 per meal​

Musk took to Twitter on Sunday in response to The New York Times reporting that Twitter employees would have to start paying for their own lunches, just like everyone else does.

He pointed out that criticism of the cut was “especially bizarre given that almost no one came into the office.”

 

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Elon Musk rehires Ligma and Johnson, says, 'firing them was truly...'​

It must be noted that Ligma and Johnson are the same pair that were photographed leaving the San Francisco, Office of Twitter carrying one box each of their belongings.

At the time, the duo tricked multiple media outlets as the public anxiously awaited news on whether Tesla CEO had begun axing staffers.

Musk was quick to react to the whole prankster episode by tweeting that "Ligma Johnson had it coming."

Then, Musk reacted again to the whole prank and wrote, "One of the best trolls ever", with two laughing emojis.

 

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Elon Musk says he's getting rid of 'Twitter for iPhone' labels, which people used to catch Android brands and ambassadors tweeting from Apple devices​

Elon Musk, the new billionaire owner of Twitter, said on Monday that Twitter would get rid of the label on tweets specifying what kind of device they were sent from, such as an iPhone.

"And we will finally stop adding what device a tweet was written on (waste of screen space & compute) below every tweet," Musk tweeted. "Literally no one even knows why we did that …"

As Chance Miller, editor-in-chief of the Apple news website 9to5mac.com, noted on Twitter, the company got rid of the feature in 2012 but re-implemented it in 2018.

Twitter says that these source labels "help you better understand how a Tweet was posted."

 

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Elon Musk says free employee lunches at Twitter HQ were costing more than $400 per meal because 'almost no one' was in the office​

He said that according to badge-in records, average occupancy in the office over the last 12 months was below 10%, peaking at 25%.

Musk was tweeting Sunday after The New York Times reported that Twitter employees would have to start paying for office lunches themselves.

He said criticism of the move was "especially bizarre given that almost no one came into the office," adding: "There are more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast. They don't even bother serving dinner, because there is no one in the building."

Twitter spends $13 million a year on food service at its San Francisco HQ, Musk said.

Musk was challenged on his $400 meal cost estimate by Tracy Hawkins, a former Twitter employee. Hawkins' LinkedIn profile says she was a VP for real estate and work transformation at Twitter, with a focus on hybrid working.

 

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Musk fires Twitter engineers for correcting, criticizing him on Twitter, Slack​

As the number of Twitter staff fired for tweets grows to at least four, Big Tech reporter Gergely Orosz tweeted that the remaining staff must also watch what they say in Slack. Before Musk’s takeover, the culture at Twitter encouraged staff to be critical in the company Slack, Bloomberg reported. Any employee who thought they were still free to do that now seemingly risks learning the hard way that being critical about Twitter is no longer an option under Musk's leadership.

“Another ~10 Twitter employees who made sassy or critical remarks about Twitter's current leadership on a Twitter internal Slack channel have been terminated overnight,” Orosz tweeted. “One person was told they are let go ‘for recent behavior.’”

At Twitter, a line seems to have been drawn between Twitter staff and Musk’s advisers and engineers brought in from Tesla and the Boring Company, The Verge reported, and while some of this discord is spilling out onto Twitter publicly, more is leaking out via shared screenshots of the company’s Slack. Things that probably irk Musk include Twitter staff referring to Musk’s trusted outsiders as “the goons” on Slack. One Twitter employee posted on Slack, vaguely summarizing how Musk had shattered team morale: “I’m wondering when people will realize the value of Twitter was the people that worked here.”

Musk has said that he will grant access to code to engineers who need to make urgent changes on a case-by-case basis. But rather than talk to engineers about changes Musk might consider urgent, Musk appears to be fielding some of his questions about Twitter functionality from random Twitter users.

Publicly demonstrating his distrust for Twitter engineers, firing those who criticize him, and freezing out people most knowledgeable of Twitter’s products and services, Orosz tweeted, gives Twitter engineers little reason to stick around and rally around Musk.





Maybe Musk doesn't trust Twitter Engineers for the way the company played with the code to shadow ban people they disagreed with. Since the twitter mob is very unhappy that Musk will restore accounts of users they disagree with and want banned from the public square

 

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Compromise.

Make each of the Twitter Minions wear an explosive collar like in Running man.

If they do their job, alls well. If they get out of line...

 

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Guardrails that have to be built around social media? Just exactly what kind of “guardrails” is he talking about and who gets to decide what those are? Government deciding what speech is “permissible”? That sounds suspiciously like the government not only going after a private company they don’t like but also placing restrictions on speech. Markey even threatens Musk will “pay a price,” if Elon doesn’t bend to what he wants. Who are the fascists here? It’s not the Republicans.

As journalist Glenn Greenwald observes, the tech companies are not randomly trying to censor people, it’s because they’re being pushed by people like Markey. The impersonation that Markey himself okayed is just the latest hook to support their agenda.

Senator Ed Markey Ramps up the Threats Against Elon Musk

redstate.com

 

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Give the democrats enough time and they will destroy twitter and even the internet just like everything else they touch.

 

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Twitter in Chaos After Elon Musk Ultimatum, HQ Building Shut Down​

Keep in mind that Alex Heath is a liberal hack who wants Musk to fail. He’s already been running a subversion campaign against the company since the transfer of ownership, quoting anonymous sources to paint a bleak picture of Twitter’s future.

Is that reality, though? I’m skeptical. Musk didn’t get to where he is by being stupid, and he’s so far managed to increase Twitter’s usage since taking over despite claims the site’s traffic would drop off. Employees on their way out the door are also not the best barometer of the situation given they have every incentive to overstate their importance. I’d bet Musk has a team of engineers ready to assist if Twitter’s team dwindles too far.

Besides, at the end of the day, Twitter is a social media site. It’s not a rocket being sent to the moon. The infrastructure is already in place, and the actual manpower needed to keep it running is far less than what the company’s workforce consisted of prior to Musk’s takeover. He’s going to eventually, even if by some trial and error, figure out what is necessary and what isn’t, and I’d suggest you could keep the site running with just a few hundred people if it came down to that.






The move to shut down the building is being spun as tyrannical, but it makes sense to me. There are a lot of angry, leftwing ex-employees who would love nothing more than to see Musk get knocked down a notch. The last thing he can afford is for someone to sabotage the company. Apparently, now that the deadline for employees to choose to stay has passed, access will be whittled down to only those who should be there.

 

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‘Twitter Is Dead,’ 300 Million People Post On Twitter



WORLD — Hundreds of millions of people around the world mourned the sudden death of Twitter last night with hundreds of millions of heartfelt posts on Twitter.

"Twitter is dead. This is it. Goodbye, cruel world!" wrote Washington Post journalist Geebles Snortleton as it became clear the social media site had only a few hours of life left. "It's been great! I'll miss you all! Find me on Meta! It's the wave of the future!"

The post has thus far received 12 likes and 3,487 retweets.

‘Twitter Is Dead,’ 300 Million People Post On Twitter

WORLD — Hundreds of millions of people around the world mourned the sudden death of Twitter last night with hundreds of millions of heartfelt posts on Twitter.

babylonbee.com

 

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