Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[Syt]

[The Brain]

Musk has to be one of the most tiresome persons on the planet.

[Tamas]

Isn't he like a year late with this?

[OttoVonBismarck]

Yeah what's with the lockdown crying? Shit has been over for like 1.5 years.

[Jacob]

Yeah what's with the lockdown crying? Shit has been over for like 1.5 years.

At this point I think it's a radical rightist / q-anon / anti-democracy shibboleth.

[DGuller]

I sure hope that US intelligence agencies are looking into Musk, and making sure he's just a genuine idiot and not a compromised one.  He may be a private citizen, but he's a pretty damn key one to the security of the country and its allies.

[Tonitrus]

That would be an FBI job...and J. Edgar ain't around no more.

[Valmy]

Biden didn't do the lockdowns. That was all in 2020. How bizarre.

[viper37]

Because before Musk came over, Twitter was the ideal platform to exchange child porn?

[The Larch]

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters

I must say that I didn't imagine that Musk's transformation into a full blown alt-right troll would proceed so fast.

[The Brain]

Which major companies are still advertising on Twitter? I'd like to avoid giving them my money.

[Sheilbh]

And these nefarious Twitter files just seem like screenshots of examples of the moderation policy.

I'm with Semafor - I think there is a story in these files, especially because it doesn't seem to align with what Twitter were saying at the time.

But this feels like Wikileaks 2016 selectively leaking things to target political opponents rather than just a massive data dump - with Elon Musk acting as Julian Assange.

[OttoVonBismarck]

Which major companies are still advertising on Twitter? I'd like to avoid giving them my money.

I think Apple is probably the biggest one still advertising there. A lot of other major companies I think are still on "hold", they haven't pulled out of Twitter completely but also haven't said they won't restart campaigns on the platform.

The thing about Twitter is for most major companies it was a tiny, tiny slice of their digital advertising budget because it is seen as a relatively low importance platform for ads (Facebook / Google are the behemoths who have almost a duopoly on digital advertising.) Given the relatively lower stakes involved I think some of the advertisers will eventually start ads again just because it will be seen as relatively low cost and pain free for moderate return.

I think Apple has stayed on the platform because unlike the other majors, Twitter was one of its major digital ad outlets--in part because Apple actually doesn't spend a ton on digital advertising, and for other reasons that have never been entirely clarified, Apple as a matter of practice does not advertise with Facebook at all. Some of Tim Cook's actions over the last 3 years in fact show a fairly obvious open hostility towards Facebook.

[The Brain]

Good. I don't buy Apple stuff anyway. I hate to make personal sacrifices.

[Gups]

Good. I don't buy Apple stuff anyway. I hate to make personal sacrifices.

Yeah, they're the worst kind of sacrifices.