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The sequence of events from Elon Musk acquiring Twitter to now is an incredible journey.
Elon Musk bought a social media company for tens of billions, attempted to back out of the deal but couldn't because of his ineptitude by signing away the ability to reneg on the deal.^[1]
Then there was the freedom of speech advocacy from Musk where he ultimately unbanned racists and then began sharing bigoted Tweets. But it's only freedom of speech for his bigoted supporters, when authoritarian governments ask Musk to censor people/tweets he abides by their requests.^[2]
The site becomes inundated with the alt right, it's become rife with bigotry.^[3]
There was the whole verified blue check mark debacle where verification became something you could pay for, with people making fake "official" accounts. For example a fake account impersonating a pharmaceutical company caused their stock to drop abruptly following a satirical tweet.^[4]
Twitter engages in mass layoffs and multiple things break on the site. There are also reports that they can't pay rent in certain locations across the globe. Twitter is hemorrhaging advertisors, as they record a 59% reduction in advertisement sales.^[5]
Elon Musk posts tweets seemingly apologizing for some of the changes and says he will follow the will of the people by posting polls for users to vote on policy changes. Musk asks if he should step down, to which the majority vote in favour of his removal. He then goes on a tirade about bots after losing in the poll. He goes on to say that only paid subscribers will be permited to vote in future polls. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.^[6]
The crème de la crème is Elon Musk implementing a new restriction where you have to be logged in to see tweets and restricting the number of tweets you can view. Inadvertently DDOSing his own site.
New York Times - Why Elon Musk Can’t Back Out of Buying Twitter, According to Twitter
Forbes - Twitter Has Complied With Almost Every Government Request For Censorship Since Musk Took Over, Report Finds
The Atlantic -Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network
Forbes - Fake Eli Lilly Twitter Account Claims Insulin Is Free, Stock Falls 4.37%
New York Times - Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue
The Guardian - Elon Musk breaks silence after 10 million Twitter users vote for him to step down
Holy shit, welcome you mad legend. Glad you made it to the other side.
You know Lemmy's legit when it's gotten PoppinKREAM's deal of approval.
I know anyone that write his comment in academic style is at least 10 times smarter than I but who's they?
Lore: https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/who-is-poppinkream-the-reddit-user-fighting-for-a-fact-based-internet.html
He was a common sight on r/politics and similar.
I think at one point poppin said she was a woman.
I shouldn't have assumed. :)
Whoa PoppinKREAM is on Lemmy now? I knew I made the correct choice. Welcome, legend.
Is this real? It doesn't feel real...
I would like to award your comment with one lemmy gold🏅
Wow this really feels like reddit again. High quality comment followed by low effort award post. All we need now is an award speech edit
🏅🏅 I’m feeling generous, have two on me
That whole not paying rent thing becomes even murkier when you dive into one of his many other lawsuits.
And
Hey, thanks for the source! Oh my goodness, this is awful. I'll have to go through this court filing.
Omfg you're here! I'm so fucking excited now! I would always read through your such well written and referenced comments!!! This is such an exciting moment!
Hell yeah PoppinKREAM is on Lemmy. We've made it boys!
TIL that Lemmy supports references. What a neat feature.
Hey, it's poppinkream!
I wonder if we will get the Internet Historian feature-length special about it or some dude will generate it with AI first.
It truly has been a wonderful ride, is amazing that Spez could pull away last second and destroy reddit right before musk pulls this shit. 8 do thing when is all said and done musk will have fucked himself the hardest .. I think anything can happen
You know we're in the right place when these golden PoppinKREAM posts are here.
Platforms are nothing without these true internet content creators.
The gems are is the post. The gold is in the comments.
don’t forget that the new CEO, hired to bring advertisers back, has a non-compete clause preventing her from working with advertisers