So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

The fact he said that his dog is CEO of Twitter now actually does explain some of Twitters recent changes.

Where is this "destruction"?

Or is it just the clickbait/meme "destruction"

People will follow the money and why wouldn't they?

Yeah, piss poor journalism by the BBC

"Elon since you've taken over Twitter it's full of hate speech"

"Can you give some examples?"

"No I can't . . . anyway moving on to my next question"

I mean this is what I see all the time from the same loopers on boards.ie as well

"This thread is full of hate speeeeeech!"

"Can you give some examples / posts from this thread?"

"You're all a bunch of racists!"

As Elon would say - is it actual hate speech or just ideas you personally don't happen to like . . .

PBS also leaving:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-12/pbs-joins-npr-in-quitting-twitter-over-state-backed-designation

Musk is like a teenager without impulse control. Kicking after NPR defo will bring the advertisers back on the platform.

There's no doubt the interview went badly for the BBC journalist. Regardless of the reasons, the journalist was unprepared for any pushback on very serious statements which Musk would obviously defend or ask for evidence on.

As for "destroyed" though, that's just internet speak for people who need to claim something as a win, while actively ignoring the other parts of the interview where he admits he only bought Twitter because he was going to be forced to by a judge, that he sleeps at the office sometimes (I guess it means he can read catturd2's tweets quicker if he's on-site), and that the whole experience of buying and running Twitter has been pretty painful. And that he doesn't have a grasp on the difference between publicly funded news outlets and government propaganda news outlets and is trying to conflate the two either purposefully or just because he's an idiot.

Not to mention that just because the BBC interviewer didn't have examples of hate speech at hand, doesn't mean it's not happening. There are Twitter-Blue-Verified accounts with racial slurs or Nazi references in their names, and accounts that just tweet quotes from Mein Kampf for example, and Twitter is facing fines of approx 30bn for not removing Nazi hate speech in accordance with German laws (and given that they do ban some accounts in Germany for Nazi hate speech but don't ban those accounts in other countries shows that they know it counts as Nazi hate speech but are okay with it in other countries).

So yeah, an ill-prepared interview and the journalist made a balls of some of it. But has it changed anything? No.

Seems clear to me what is going on with Twitter (+ changes there) even as someone who does not use it much! People seem to think it is a big joke, how dumb Musk is etc. etc., but expect they could be laughing on other side of their faces during the next US election. IMO Musk is maybe convinced that democracy is going to fail soon in the US, is positioning himself to benefit from that.

Can he hold his creditors off for another 18 months though? I dont see how with the way the finances currently look, ad spend is estimated to be still down 89% from prior to him buying the company, the number of people subscribed to twitter blue are nowhere close to what he would need to replace that ad spend and that number is unlikely to do anything but drop. Celebs arent subbing to twitter blue and neither are companies or orgs, in fact many are straight up leaving the platform. And thats just some of the problems he has, I honestly don't see him making it to the elections without some massive change of fortune which is incredibly unlikely.

What a dickhead - interviewer is a journalist paid to ask questions of subjects not a representative of the BBCs position. Lets interview the Twitter canteen staff on the companies corporate strategy.

Musk has really gone off the reservation

Thanks, maybe am overthinking it (...!) and as I said I don't use Twitter much at all. May as well expand...

Have been reading about him showing his belly for Xi and praising of the Chinese "system" that lets him make money there, while he heaps scorn and abuse on current democratic US govt. and its useless regulators who all conspire to stymie profits etc.

Also the whole very disturbing vaguely pro Russia positions he has taken on Ukraine war, use of the technology he owns to press US defence dept. into giving him more money.

I think it's indicative of someone who really quite likes authoritarianism and corruption (as he's a sort of Superman/God King high above the rest of the plebs that are made miserable under such systems), thinks a lot more of it in the US would be just excellent for him and for business/profits and increase his ability to attach his companies to the gushing US govt. milk teat (biggest udder in the world). The US right are most likely to deliver all that.

He doesn't need to care what anyone thinks about him at all, or who leaves Twitter or doesn't order a Tesla if the US govt. is a corrupt managed democracy with dodgy "elections" and he's a connected "friend".

Nice re write of history there, the US right wing nuts were not "meh", the virus broke their brains (and brains of alot of people around the world!). Probably for rest of my life every time someone mentions it (Covid), donkeys like you will pop up start and wailing about the "muzzles" and the "medical fascists" etc. Please go away.

Let's not forget some reactions to a disease that only killed two people in the US.

https://www.vox.com/2020/2/26/21154253/trump-ebola-tweets-coronavirus