Many people are wondering what the purpose and intentions are of Tesla CEO Elon Musk after reports drop that he has purchased over 9% of Twitter stock valued at $2.89 billion.
Last month, Musk asked his followers on the platform for their opinion of Twitter’s position on free speech. Now many people are wondering if the passive position purchased by Musk will be used to leverage a change in the Big Tech platform.
(CNBC) – Outspoken Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased a giant stake in Twitter that makes him the largest outside shareholder in the social media stock, not long after criticizing the company for what he said was its failure to uphold the tenets of free speech.
Musk owns 73,486,938 shares of Twitter, which represents a 9.2% passive stake in the company, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission 13G filing released Monday. The stake is worth $2.89 billion, based Twitter’s closing price Friday.
The purchase comes less than two weeks after Musk criticized the company, polling people on Twitter about whether it adheres to free speech principles. “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy,” Musk tweeted. “What should be done?” (read more)
‘Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.’
Free speech is essential to making a lot of money.
If that is his only goal, sounds good enough. 🤔
I highly doubt Elon is about free speech.
Read this posted – Tweeted out by E.W. Niedermeyer – One of Elon’s Biggest Critics on Twitter – I bet my 401K he is one of the first people banned from Twitter if Elon takes over
Musk buying nearly 10% of Twitter is the rare realpolitik move for a guy who likes to style himself a “memelord.”
This platform, and the public imagination more broadly, is as central to his success as anything to do with the engineering of EVs or rockets. Much more, actually.
Investing in the engine of growth for his personal empire shows that Musk doesn’t just want to be the world’s greatest showman (or “personal brand,” as well call them now). He wants to own the biggest venue, so now anyone replicating his playbook has to go through him.
Musk’s real industrial work, the things he has most fundamentally transformed in his diverse career, exists in the minds and imaginations of the public. His magic trick is “memeing” perception into reality, and Twitter is critical infrastructure for that.
But like a lot of his boldest plays, Musk seems to be firing from the hip on this. He’s already framed his engagement with Twitter around the issue of “free speech,” which is a world-historical level meme, but one that makes this adventure fraught with challenges.
I’m skeptical that he feels the need to tilt the Twitter playing field even further to the benefit of his posting, or the fortunes of his companies. He’s already gotten away with posts others have been banned for, and his investors are infamously active evangelists on here.
That said, Musk’s actions make it incredibly clear that he does NOT believe in free speech and that he is incredibly sensitive to media coverage of himself and his companies. But framing his Twitter investment as a free speech move then pursuing obvious self-interest won’t play.
What buying into Twitter as a free speech crusader does do is entrench him further as an icon of the post-Trump American right, for whom the power of Silicon Valley over online speech is a major issue. Long straddling the culture war divide, Musk is now seriously taking sides.
This is, of course, deeply self-interested. Musk essentially operates on affinity, crafting images of himself that foster deep loyalty. He’s leveraging his credibility/stature in power circles the right traditionally struggles with: SV, greenies, the media (yes) and the memeplex.
Musk’s image has become a lot more complicated inside these circles in recent years, so he’s cashing out his equity by selling himself as the new right’s high-tech/technocratic “outsider-insider.”
Trump can’t “fix” the right’s “social media problem,” but Elon can!
Musk can be an activist on Twitter on behalf of political forces and sell his work as being rooted in “free speech” principles in ways he can’t if he just used his perch at Twitter to pump Tesla stock more. And make no mistake: that would still be powerful marketing.
All that said, balancing free speech with “quality of life” content moderation on social media is not only one of the hardest problems in modern life but it’s also one that a solutionist engineering bro like Musk is least likely to achieve.
Like a sustainable colony on Mars, or solving climate change with 6k lb private vehicles that do 0-60 in 3 seconds, Musk’s new mission is doomed to failure. There is no high-minded solution to problems of online speech, just waiting for a genius to “work the problem” hard enough.
So if there is no “solution” that will reliably improve Twitter’s commitment to free speech while providing necessary protections and quality of life that moderation policies provide, what is Musk doing?
He’s getting sucked into the culture war maelstrom, as all things do now.
There will be plenty of time to say more about all this, but for now I’ll conclude with a message to my friends in the media: please start taking Musk’s history of “stealth PR” more seriously. It’s a tough subject to research, but there’s much there the public needs to know now.
Well, Twitter has never made a profit, I am sure that institutions view his appointment as a board member with anticipation.
Got it. It’s all optics with self-aggrandizement being the prime mover.
Why not just say that in the first sentence or two?
I’m planning to keep an open mind about Elon Musk. At first, I didn’t care for him. He seemed brash, spoiled, and rude. In the last two years, I’ve witnessed him working with NASA, allowing his Starlink System to be used by Ukraine for its defense, and now his concern for free-speech in the US via his stock purchase of Twitter. I see a lot of similarities between Mr. Musk and President Trump, regarding his business and negotiation skills.
Musk loves America.
He told NPR years ago that history has proven America to be the best country on earth, that there is no other country he could have achieved what he has, and that he got here as quickly as he could.
He dared the county officials to arrest him on the production line of his factory in California when he refused to bow to Newsom’s CVD mandates.
He has warned Americans to not give up their rights so easily.
His heroes are the Mercury astronauts – especially the Gemini men that landed on and returned from the moon.
He is a decent American, and I believe one of his future projects is to build Tesla nuclear plants globally. That will be a blessing to the world.
Does he have a US passport? I know he’s South African but it would be great if he had dual citizenship.
I think he has Canadian citizenship along with his S African citizenship. But he is too big to fail, IE: they can’t toss him , as he would become an anchor around their neck.
They tossed a President off the United States. They are now tossing an entire country (albeit a much filled one). What makes you think they won’t toss those who are publicly very rich? Remove contracts, remove tax incentives, as heavy regulations, and if that isn’t enough, the money is only ones and zeros anyway. Erase it, just like the Canadian government did a test run on the truckers.
Are you saying there is a chance America would toss satan Sorearse – now you’re talking!
Yes, he has citizenship in South Africa, Canada, thanks to his mother who also has Canadian citizenship, and he emigrated from Canada into the US and became a citizen.
When asked why he wanted to come to America, he replied: “Because that’s where great things happen!!!”
He’s probably exceeded even his own hopes/expectations !!!
He is a naturalized US citizen.
Doesn’t matter. He will fly to Mexico and come in by foot over our Southern border. Full rights of US citizenship will be his.
“Elon Reeve Musk FRS (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-Canadian-American businessman. He was born in South Africa. He moved to Canada and later became an American citizen”.
My garish I am feeling old! It was Apollo astronauts who landed on and returned from the moon not Gemini!
Our Lunar program had three phases:
Phase one Mercury: How do we place man in space in low earth orbit and return to earth safely.
Phase two Gemini: How do we work in space (Extra Vehicular Activity) and how do we rendezvous in space
Phase Three Apollo: Lunar orbit and Lunar landing/exploration.
Thank you for correcting that it was Apollo, not Gemini.
I’m all for Musk with his Trump-like America first tendencies.
I think he probably knows the truth about the Mercury and Apollo astronauts.
This could get really interesting.
Same here, he’s pro-nuclear energy and knows the transition (yes, like it or not it’s happening – please don’t hate me for stating the obvious, look t what’s going on) to “renewables” is a ways out and low/”affordable” oil prices are essential for America.
He thinks it stupid we went to the Moon and stopped, I completely agree. What he has done for the American Space Industry, and really in general, is amazing. He fought “big space” (Boeing, Lockheed, etc) tooth and nail. He beat them by offering a better product that actually reduced the cost to get to space.
He believes at some point in the future Earth will be uninhabitable by humans (I agree, but it’s not going to be from global warming and possibly millions of years away). His mission to get to Mars is a first step in humans becoming multi-planetary species. He’s doing it because he believes it’s essentially for the survival of mankind.
He had a lot of kids because he also thinks people aren’t having enough kids to ensure our survival as a species.
I wish people would listen to his interviews and read the biography about him, as well as the one about Space X. It puts what’s he’s had to face in perspective. Big auto and big space were trying to stop him. That alone is reason to support him.
He and I disagree on some things, but overall he supports nuclear power, low price oil, American manufacturing (and really local manufacturing regardless of where in the world it is) and the benefit of Space travel.
If you read his biography you’ll realize he’s not doing any of this for the money. Rather, it’s about solving complex problems – he’s an engineer and thinks like an engineer which may differ from how you look at the world and it’s problems.
Thank you for that! I was going to post something along those lines, but you’ve covered it all and I totally agree with you1
So maybe you can refute all these facts about Elon Musk for me:
There are so many posting here with so much excitement about Elon Musk’s share of Twitter and the HOPE that he will take over and make Twitter Great Again with free speech.
So I must ask all you with that excitement if you think that Elon Musk will continue to let the many people who post up on Twitter issues like the poor quality, poor service and explosions of their Teslas and the soddy worksmanship that many have experienced with their solar panel installations from Solar City. Especially the guy in Denmark who blew up his 2012 Model S Tesla because Tesla would not honor the battery warranty and a replacement battery would cost $22,000.
There are many Twitter users who are pretty thorough with going through Musk’s SEC filings as well as his financials and have found many errors and site many flaws in Tesla and Solar City Financials. Matter of fact, Musk was late filing his SEC filing about the acquisition of his Twitter Shares. There many Twitter accounts that are followning the many lawsuits against Elon including the ones from the SEC, the shareholders and employees. There are many Twitter accounts that post Elon’s promises such as where is the Semi, Cybertruck, Roadster, and Fully Self Driving 5. There are many Twitter users that post videos of crashes of Teslas due to the failure of Self-Driving and of course the Tesla fires that take 32,000 gallons of water to put out. There is Twitter account that has posted overhead videos of the ecological mess that the Tesla Fremont Plant has made and there is a Twitter account that has video taped the Tesla Fremont Plant testing self-driving and recorded times when the testing has failed. Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against this person and people on Twitter set up a GoFundMe account and raised over $200,000 for legal fees. The judge in the case has so far found that Elon’s lawsuit against this person is baseless. That Elon has presented non-factual arguments.
I will also remind you that Elon Musk referred to the man who did resuce the teeanagers out of the cave a while back a “PEDO”. Also I must remind all
of you that Elon Musk’s fortune has come from the Global Warming Religion and the need for green energy. The war in the Ukraine is all about that. If you believe otherwise I have ocean front property in Arizona for sale. In other words, Elon Musk has made billions off of taxpayer subsidies made possible by the raging Al Gore and the Global Warming debacle. Just keep that in mind. I also wonder if Elon Musk who is in bed with China just like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, most of the High-Tech Companies in the Silicon Valley, The Bidens, The Obamas, The Clintons, The Pelosis (who have HUGE stock invested in Tesla and have recently sold about $5 milllion worth of it), the Kerrys (BIG CLIMATE CHANGE PEOPLE), the Romneys, etc will let free speech prevail for those Twitter accounts who follow the human rights abuses in China. Especially those abuses that involve slave labor making solar panels. Elon Musk has NEVER NEVER criticized China for anything. He Tweets wonderful things about China, the people there and their economy. Just think, there is no Twitter in China – anyone want to guess why? Me thinks that most of you are putting your faith in a false god whom you know very little about. I will take Jesus any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Jesus unlike Elon Musk will deliver.
Anything posted as fact requires a link to its source.
The whole story of the “pedo guy” in the Thailand rescue story can be found here, including what was probably Musk’s reason for using it. Apparently in SA it is “creepy guy” and this single guy had been hanging out in Thailand for some time. Read about it here, where you’ll also find out that “pedo guy” lost his libel suit against Musk.
Musk has had quite an amazing life. It’s detailed here and makes for fascinating reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
As for those looking for perfection, good luck. It’s not here. It’s nowhere in the world. And it is said that “cynical hostility” is one of five things that will age us. Who needs that?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/nobel-prize-winner-5-things-that-speed-up-aging-and-1-anti-aging-secret_4381285.html?
Thank you, I am sure he knows the truth about those astronauts as well.
He went too far here though:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593
Remember Pedo Guy? That was just plain wrong. Even with a JDART.
I hate to come across as rude. I’m only trying to set some history straight. First there was Merury – single astronaut. Then there was Gemini where two rode together. Then there was Apollo with three. It was Apollo which made it to the moon. Specifically Apollo 11 made the first landing July 20, 1969. I was in-between 1st and 2nd grade and have never forgotten those details. (my brain was mostly empty back then).
Yes, I stumbled over the words too but it turn out that many astronauts that made it to the moon via Apollo honed skills in Gemini and were called “Gemini men.”
Here are the stories of the Apollo missions leading up to and including Apollo 11.
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/missions.html
Some of us were older 🙂 and remember all of the missions that were aired live on television…
I agree with your sentiments and opinion of Musk. At the risk of sounding like a jerk, I was the biggest fan of NASA in the 1960s, I thought the space program was the apogee in the history of American achievement. Because that history matters so much to me, I have to correct you. Gemini astronauts did not land on the moon. Only the Apollo astronauts did that, beginning with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in July 1969. The Gemini program was indispensable to the effort to land on the moon; among other things, the Gemini astronauts made the first space walks and completed the first successful rendezvous and docking maneuvers.
“He has warned Americans to not give up their rights so easily.”
Will Americans heed this warning?
There are so many posting here with so much excitement about Elon Musk’s share of Twitter and the HOPE that he will take over and make Twitter Great Again with free speech.
So I must ask all you with that excitement if you think that Elon Musk will continue to let the many people who post up on Twitter issues like the poor quality, poor service and explosions of their Teslas and the soddy worksmanship that many have experienced with their solar panel installations from Solar City. Especially the guy in Denmark who blew up his 2012 Model S Tesla because Tesla would not honor the battery warranty and a replacement battery would cost $22,000.
There are many Twitter users who are pretty thorough with going through Musk’s SEC filings as well as his financials and have found many errors and site many flaws in Tesla and Solar City Financials. Matter of fact, Musk was late filing his SEC filing about the acquisition of his Twitter Shares. There many Twitter accounts that are followning the many lawsuits against Elon including the ones from the SEC, the shareholders and employees. There are many Twitter accounts that post Elon’s promises such as where is the Semi, Cybertruck, Roadster, and Fully Self Driving 5. There are many Twitter users that post videos of crashes of Teslas due to the failure of Self-Driving and of course the Tesla fires that take 32,000 gallons of water to put out. There is Twitter account that has posted overhead videos of the ecological mess that the Tesla Fremont Plant has made and there is a Twitter account that has video taped the Tesla Fremont Plant testing self-driving and recorded times when the testing has failed. Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against this person and people on Twitter set up a GoFundMe account and raised over $200,000 for legal fees. The judge in the case has so far found that Elon’s lawsuit against this person is baseless. That Elon has presented non-factual arguments.
I will also remind you that Elon Musk referred to the man who did resuce the teeanagers out of the cave a while back a “PEDO”. Also I must remind all
of you that Elon Musk’s fortune has come from the Global Warming Religion and the need for green energy. The war in the Ukraine is all about that. If you believe otherwise I have ocean front property in Arizona for sale. In other words, Elon Musk has made billions off of taxpayer subsidies made possible by the raging Al Gore and the Global Warming debacle. Just keep that in mind. I also wonder if Elon Musk who is in bed with China just like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, most of the High-Tech Companies in the Silicon Valley, The Bidens, The Obamas, The Clintons, The Pelosis (who have HUGE stock invested in Tesla and have recently sold about $5 milllion worth of it), the Kerrys (BIG CLIMATE CHANGE PEOPLE), the Romneys, etc will let free speech prevail for those Twitter accounts who follow the human rights abuses in China. Especially those abuses that involve slave labor making solar panels. Elon Musk has NEVER NEVER criticized China for anything. He Tweets wonderful things about China, the people there and their economy. Just think, there is no Twitter in China – anyone want to guess why? Me thinks that most of you are putting your faith in a false god whom you know very little about. I will take Jesus any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Jesus unlike Elon Musk will deliver.
I’ll take Jesus, Elon, and any other help the good Lord sends. Throughout recorded history our mighty God, who thinks not like us at all, has managed to use many of us feeble and failing men to his own purposes. Even when we deny him three times.
I am super sick of the purity tests. If we wait on perfection, those we consider to be exactly like us, we fail. This country started with a shaky con-FEDERATION of states, states with mighty differences of interest and even culture.
I’m not proposing to vote for Elon for president, I am merely hoping in specific circumstances he might be a powerful, useful ally. Given the state of the nation, it seems to me we’d better work with those we can when we can.
I must have skipped church the day they covered that when you “take Jesus” you renounce cooperation with anyone else. Seem to have passed over it in the Bible as well.
Elon is not helping anyone but himself.
Link to source or it’s just your opinion.
Thank you, Menagerie! The long diatribes about whom Eion is and may be, how he may negatively affect our Republic and on and on and on, frankly nauseate me. You said it better than I could, so I’ll come to a full stop. I’m willing to give the guy a chance rather than engage in negative conjecture based on Zero.
So LuLu – please refute one by one each fact that I posted. Until then, you are willing to give a guy a chance who you obviously know nothing about. Good for you.
Snottiness gets you nowhere. I didn’t see one link for your purported “facts”. In my opinion, your agenda is screaming and flashng red lights. You haven’t the foggiest notion what I know or don’t. And I say ditto for you. You have proved nothing here but that you have it in for Elon Musk. That’s an opinion. Your “evidence” is unsupported.
Haven’t you noticed that Sundance supports his facts?
Interesting.
I don’t track personalities myself. But always good to review info from all perspectives.
Agreed. Recent events have compelled me to reevaluate my opinion of him.
Musk (who has an unfathomable Twatter following) trashed Twatter. Then he bought a huge share. The guy knows how to manipulate the system to make money. Not making a judgement call here, just stating the facts.
If Twatter has a rebound after all this is sorted, I wonder how it will affect President Trump’s new project. It has been widely reported that Musk is not a fan of PDJT, nor interested in working within his new platform.
Truth Social is not doing too well. Trump needs to get guys who can execute. That’s been his fatal flaw. He got doofuses in the White House who were more interested in saving their own a$$es, and making a quick buck, even if it meant stabbing the President in the back. That has to stop the next time. And after that, RNC (Mcdaniel) sat out of all of the 2020 election fraud investigations which were all funded from private donations. Why is Romney-McDaniel still running that operation? And some of the endorsements (Mo Brooks, for example) have been dubious. That needs to change. With literally the entire world against MAGA, the margin for error the next time around is zero. Mr. Trump is owed a debt of gratitude by the entire free world for showing how to practice economic security as the foundation for national security and global well-being. However, with backstabbing crooks around every corner, he must be vigilant to not allow any of these to be near him in positions of power.
When he announced the site and shared the details of how it would be set up, every tech blogger I respect was appalled. All saying that the system he was putting in place was a dog.
He really has far too many useless people around him.
Not interested in bashing President Trump. The topic was Musk.
Amen, PJ, but some of the bashers around here are stream of consciousness bash anyone types. 🙂
I signed up for Truth Social on the first day and I’m still on the wait list. What a joke!
I, too, was leery of Musk at first and after watching the interview between him and Babylon Bee, I found a new appreciation for him. No one is perfect and my belief after having believed and lived through 65 years of information from our government and media that was mostly all lies is to SUPPORT anyone and anything our government is against. I wish I could go back in time, to turn the hands of the clock back, and find the time to stop time before time runs out. But, alas time waits for no one, because lost time in never found again. Ask kamala, she knows.
He is a strong person. A very successful entrepreneur. I have never seen him say or do anything that was opposed to America and its freedom. How on earth could he be worse than woke Jack Dorsey?
Reading some comments here, I see a fear of strong persons like Trump and Musk. Some prefer those who pretend self-effacement like Mike Pence. IMO, the former are the real deal; the latter the fakers who pretend to have no ego. When did ego become a bad thing?
your observation is absolutely true and it has always been and remains so… those who are meek and acquiescent seek others like them to identify with as a political party and suffer anxiety and fear of the unknown for someone who demonstrates leadership ability…. (tho, look who they seek or accept for a mate… someone whom they can blame for what they lack, psy 101)… pay them no mind. MAGA 2024
There’s that 29% again (in the poll question).
Every time people have been polled lately, there’s a 29% that adhere to the stupidest thing possible.
That tells me MOST Americans still have a pretty good/sane take on things.
There’s hope.
And it tells us that there’s a solid 30% that are bat-crap crazy
It’s better than that– there’s a significant percentage of Americans (me included) that either do not, or have closed their twatter accounts because of it’s politics and lack of free speech support. So in reality, that 30% crazy is a hell of a lot smaller than it appears.
I opened a Twitter account specifically to follow Canadian Earthquake Researcher’s data on the coming worldwide earthquake. As a bonus I get to troll tyrant Trudeau.
Umm, what? WW earthquake?
https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/how-canada-preparing-next-big-earthquake
Maybe that?
I have never had a Twit account. Free speech? Ha! Many folks are suspended, banned, or regularly receive warnings. Something is very wrong and incidious when the President of the United States can permently be banned by a tech company. A one-sided platform is of no value and would be frustrating. jmo
I figure it’s folks 35 and under who don’t have kids (or do and live in woke cities). They are still over represented in these polls because they use social media much more than the other age categories.
A third of the folks at the time of the Revolution were loyalists who did not want to break from England. Another third were sort of ambivalent and finally the patriotic third who won our independence.
Maybe some things don’t change.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ―George Carlin
Then there is that ~30% that is even more stupid.
Being American does not guarantee that one has a functioning brain.
Sometimes it is hard not to like that goober. Strange cat.
I just can’t get past the green leanings though.
I can accept people that strive for a better environment as long as its not by their force and your payment.
Does he cut his own hair? Can someone explain his ‘look’?
Odd people. His wife or ex wife, idk
Sexy Gothic look!
They probably think we’re odd, too…
It helped save him enough to buy 9% of Twitter.
Somebody asked about this Jack twit on previous page:
You all need to stop getting so excited! “Elon Musk’s Talk at the WEFElon Musk is an engineer and entrepreneur who founded Tesla, SpaceX, Solar City and PayPal. He’s also the co-founder of OpenAI. He spoke about his personal experiences and views on several topics at the WEF.
In his talk at the WEF, Elon Musk discussed how society needs to work together to create some kind of world government. He stated that this would be necessary to address the challenges currently posed by climate change and artificial intelligence. In response to the question” “Is there anything you believe will cause humanity to become post-human”? He replied, “I think we’ll have some pretty interesting conversation.”
He was also asked what he thought was one of the most ‘urgent’ problems facing society today. Elon Musk answered this question with, “Depends on what we call our reality.”
Climate change, global trade, and digitalization discussions have dominated this year’s Davos meeting. But EloMusk’s speech has caught most people’s attention. It is not every day that an entrepreneur lays out a radical plan for humanity in front of 3,000 political and business leaders from across the globe!” https://medium.com/technology-hits/elon-musk-and-the-wef-dcaf4bec2084
He also just opened his second manufacturing plant in China. I hope he’s ready for the Intellectual Property theft that is going to happen..
Sorry Right to reply, but the ‘Musk founded Tesla’ LIE is a huge pet peeve of mine.
Elon Musk had NOTHING to do with the founding of Tesla.
Mark Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard co-founded Tesla in 2003!
Elon Musk is a money guy who came along latter. That’s also what he did at Pay Pal.
Doesn’t anyone ever wonder how a company founded in 2003 could lose money, every single quarter, for nearly 16 YEARS and stay in business?
Largely selling their carbon credits to Ford and Chevy for a profit.
Thank you thank you thank you – Elon Musk like Bill Gates and Steven Jobs has never invented anything. The Model S was designed and engineered by Peter Rawlinson the CEO of Lucid Motors.
I believe he is also a transhumanist.
No one is perfect. Let’s support him (and everyone else) when they do things we agree with.
Elon Musk is not an engineer and he like Bill Gates and Steven Jobs have never never invented anything.
I’d like to see him lift Trump’s Twitter ban. Liberal heads would explode at the thought.
My thought exactly too. Why does the head of the Taliban have an account and Putin (who they think is worse than Stalin) and not Trump?
Isn’t it obvious? Because the head of the Taliban’s interests align with the in-power FJB dem regime, of course.
Because you can speak politically correct but nor name names but not speak plain truth and include names.
I think if it’s possible, perhaps Musk will lift the ban on Trump. If for no other reason to follow through on his Twit discussion regarding free speech. He can’t talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Musk won’t lift Trump’s twitter ban. Musk is in bed with China and Trump massively dislikes China.
Ok just throwing this out there- why can’t Peter Thiel do something like this? He understands Silicon Valley best and should know how to influence things- like a campaign to get them stripped of Section 230?
that would sure be something to get excited about!
he needs to do A LOT MORE before I give a ^*#*$# about him.
He is just a opportunist global homo demonRat
and nothing less
and I didn’t realize that people still use the flobee
You are part of the problem on the rights side of the aisle !
I’m past the point of caring
they want to label me
I have no problem returning the favor
after what has been done to this country
people like this Musk clown are the real problem.
too many of them in this country
only looking out for themselves first.
Why didn’t Trump do this?
$$$$$$$, 3 billion would have wiped Trump out!
Hold the line
Few people realize that Elon Musk is an actual African-American.
He came from South Africa. lol
Hubby had an acquaintance who would always refer to black South Africans as “African American South Africans”. Kid you not…
I wondered if black people around the globe referred to themselves as African Americans even if they aren’t from America. How odd.
I’m not feeling the Musk.
(Groan myself! 😄)
I’ll have to wait on this. So far, I don’t feel comfortable with him.
Musk moved to Texas, and is expanding in Texas. That should tell you everything you need to know. He still has the original libertarian streak that was common among the Bay Area tech founders. Most of the others have become cucks of progressivism. He stands apart.
Corporate raider?
We are waiting for Donald Trumps first Tweet. Should be any time now. 🤔
Musk’s Space X will singlehandedly save the International Space Station now that Russia has pulled out. His Starlink internet satellite system kept the Ukrainians online during the war. He employs thousands of Americans. If he forces the commies at Twitter to open the platform, he will be an American hero!
I hoped Bezos would straighten out the Post too.
“ Musk criticized the company”
Musk asked a simple question.
The poll respondents did the criticizing.
Thus the author the CNBC piece reveals that in fact he already knows Twitter does not.
Nah, Elon Musk just dropped $3 billion on Twitter stock because he intends to sit by and do absolutely nothing. /sarc
Worth almost $300 billion but saves $50 on a haircut. Got to love the guy!
Folks, everyone is overthinking the question of Musk’s motives. It’s simple: make money! He’s already up over $1.5 Bil on his stock play on Twitter. Whatever you think of Musk, devil or saint, prophet or jester, he’s virtually patented the process of earning Billions from the government subsidies and government contracts and public companies he plays with. In two tweets he makes over $1 Billion. No further motive needs to be ascribed.