Thoughts on Elon Musk buying a stake in Twitter?

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From the WSJ:

Twitter-turned-X’s response to the Israel-Hamas war shows the uncomfortable truth that there are really two Twitters: the one Elon Musk owns, and the one his chief executive Linda Yaccarino is trying to convince the world exists.

At Musk’s Twitter, he is championing free speech and acts less concerned about the spread of false videos and other problematic content unless, he says, it’s illegal.

At the other Twitter, Yaccarino is trying to put the genie back in the bottle at Musk’s every turn, to show advertisers and now this week European regulators that the social-media platform is serious about controlling what’s on the site.
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By week’s end, it appeared Musk’s approach was garnering more attention, and efforts by Yaccarino to smooth things over with the EU apparently weren’t working.

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Tesla’s Profits Plunge 44% After Big Price Cuts

The automaker reported a sharp drop in profits in the third quarter after slashing car prices by around 25 percent in an attempt to compete.

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I’ve also noticed that an increasing number of people are abandoning Twitter over the last couple of weeks.

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A year later, Musk’s X is tilting right. And sinking.
The billionaire bought Twitter to revive its business and make it less “woke.” He has succeeded at only one of those goals.
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Krugman is always good for a laugh. He just wants to call Musk a white supremacist, and twists himself into a pretzel to include economic theory in his explanation so that the NYT will print it. He follows the lead of countless others that have lived a sheltered life, tossing around a label that lost all meaning many years ago due to misuse, and exposing his jealousy that Musk understands economics better than he does.

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My quote was not from Krugman, but from:
Ryan Mac is a technology reporter for The New York Times, based in Los Angeles. He covers corporate accountability across the global tech industry.

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“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” - Maya Angelou

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Some will choose to not believe him no matter how many times he shows us.

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None of this has anything to do with antisemitism, and everything to do with censorship opportunists. And Musk doesn’t care. LOL

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Like I was saying, some won’t believe him no matter how explicit he becomes.

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Well, Apple, kinda a big company, thinks it’s about antisemitism.

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Likewise, IBM, kinda a big company, doesn’t want its ads appearing near posts promoting antisemitism.

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May be hurting Tesla as well.

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Linda really isn’t doing her career any favors.

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From the article:

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X: “Our ad placement software sucks so bad it puts ads next to neo-Nazi posts but pointing this out is mean and rude and we’re going to sue you for showing people how bad our software is.”

Musk: “Exericising your free speech right to not pay for ads oppresses the free speech of the neo-Nazis you refuse to support and we’re going to sue you for hating free speech by expressing your free speech to not support free speech…… Or something! But we’re definitely suing!”

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