Twitter platform owner Elon Musk has confirmed the hiring of Linda Yaccarino as CEO of Twitter. Many reactions are happening, but CTH analysis generally likes to stay ahead of the reactions and more into the future of what each datapoint means. That said, here’s some context.
The general or more common logic, completely understandable, is to look at the hiring of Yaccarino as binary. Either Musk was previously lying about everything he believed in, or the revenue situation is at a critical mass. Otherwise, it really doesn’t make sense to bring in Linda Yaccarino.
Before going deeper, it is critical to know just how ideological Linda Yaccarino is. The former head of NBCUniversal is the apex voice in the system of promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) from an advertising perspective. I’m not talking about a little bit ideological, I mean the full dna-level, metastatic, this is the core essence of what makes Yaccarino believe she has purpose in life.
Changing social culture by leveraging commercial enterprise is Yaccarino’s life work.
Literally Linda Yaccarino believes that advertisers should determine the product being sold. This is not a spoof, exaggeration, hyperbole or a spin on her outlook. Yaccarino believes marketing and advertising executives should be able to control the physical content, the actual stuff, created by the publisher they pay to advertise their product.
A traditional example might be Ford Motor Company telling Motor Trend magazine what positions to place ads for competitors in the auto industry as a contingency for their ad spend. A modern example might be Disney telling Fox News what content may be discussed by Tucker Carlson. This is the origin of DEI ideology controlling platform content.
To understand how this mindset applies to Twitter and Elon Musk, watch a few minutes of this previous interview between Yaccarino and Musk at a convention of advertisers. This is an example of how the NBCUniversal executive thinks. WATCH (prompted):
You can see in the back and forth, how Musk tries to stick to his core principles about “free speech” while Yaccarino uses terms like “partnership”, “collaboration”, and “mutual benefits” to leverage her advertising team’s agenda.
It is important to understand the views expressed by Musk and Yaccarino are mutually exclusive. There is no free speech when the advertisers are permitted to determine the content of that speech. Musk tries to negotiate a nuance, but the core of the dynamic is in conflict.
Any good, stable and even-tempered corporate executive will tell you the marketing team is consistently the least valuable mindset at the corporate table.
Factually, most of the people who fail out of business schools fail down into the humanities dept. However, sometimes those emotionally driven ideologues simply move into the marketing and advertising fields within the business majors. The outcome of this truism is Alissa Heinersheid and her destruction of the Bud Light brand through marketing.
Linda Yaccarino is the apex voice in the system that has allowed advertisers to determine content. She would be the ideal candidate within an organization like Google, but she is oil in the water of Twitter. So, what gives?
Why would Elon Musk hire Linda Yaccarino as the CEO of Twitter? We return to the binary issue…. Either Musk really doesn’t believe in what he previously advocated, or Musk has hit a wall of acceptance and generating revenue is now more important than the platform itself? For the latter, essentially the economics of the thing is determining the outcome of the thing.
There is a third alternative; a less familiar dynamic that has surfaced in the past and does provide a reference. This is what I call the “ino” hiring process within large institutions and organizations; “ino” stands for In Name Only.
An executive is hired to represent the division/organization, in name only. They have no actual control, influence or power. They are simply figureheads installed to create the optics needed for the institution to continue operations.
The ino practice is also visible with ‘diversity hires’. A person is hired not to drive the mission of the organization, but to deflect opposition away from the achievement of the organizational mission. However, all ‘in name only’ (ino) hires always end up in the exact same conversation within the organization.
When the ino realizes they are essentially irrelevant to the function of the organization, that means their opinions and recommendations are never part of the organizational outcome, there is always a conversation with the following words: “then why did you hire me?” This conversation always happens, it is the one constant in an ever-changing business world.
So, there’s three basic dynamics:
Elon Musk was not as committed to ‘Free Speech’ as he originally defined it.
Priorities have changed and now Revenue is more vital than Free Speech.
Musk is still committed but needs to create the illusion of DEI acceptance.
In considering the last element, Mrs. Yaccarino does not present herself as an ino-person who will accept a position and then not deliver on the intent of her mission.
So, what does this tell us about the future of Twitter content?
I think we all know the answer….
WHY?
Because the now-restricted Twitter Account created THIS:
Can you imagine having to sit through an entire staff meeting with her? I pity the people who will have to work for her.
Just like every technocrat I have ever heard, Elon believes in free speech as long as it matches his own belief system, and they don’t like being mad fun of.
If the CTH/The Last Refuge is being throttled on Twitter there’s always Truth Social.
Isn’t that right?
Keep in mind Yaccarino’s support for RDS, her wokeism, as Chairwoman of the World Economic Forum’s Taskforce on Future of Work; with Tucker on Twitter; more people back on Twitter as well as new users; the chances of her (in the name of enforcing content moderation) modifying platform content where big money voices inevitably will force censorship of those not aligned with their agendas? Will MSM all over Twitter be subject to content moderation enforcement? We’ll find out soon enough.
Her appointment now is no coincidence.
https://rumble.com/v2n1igk-tuckers-breaking-twitter-announcement-what-it-really-means-126-stay-free-wi.html?ref=unlimited-hangout
Never been on Twitter, never will.
People need to deal with the inconvenience and move on.
Otherwise, keep dealing with the Devil for convenience sake and have no one to blame but yourself when it bites you in the a##.
You teased the over all solution to everything. Everyone get the hell off social media. Every single platform down to linked in. Get off the internet. These scum can’t touch you if you’re not on. At the very least it makes it hard for their army of flying monkeys to find you.
Until Americans are willing to get off socials then we are always going to be fighting this battle.
To do that means abandoning the Treehouse, AND the rebel alliance that WE have grown over the past several years; TGP, Intellectual Froglegs, and many others.
Kinda throwing out the baby, dontch think?
And apperently the coarse of action you advocate, is one YOU haven’t taken, obviously.
And therein lies the dillemma; how can anyone urge everyone to get OFF the internet, without goinh ON the internet, so everyone can hear you?
You can’t win a fight if you’re not in it.
You’ve never been on Twitter. Neither have I. How do you know what’s on Twitter if you don’t read the opposing viewpoints to decide what are the lies and the extent of influence the lies affect those who should be educated to not swallow everything hok line and sinker; yourkids for example. Or any one else you care about? One does not need to be a member on Twitter or fake new sites to judge for oneself everything that concerns one’s welfare and making the right choices for one’s life.
I have nothing to blame myself on opening myself to both sides of the story. In fact, all the more because of the blatant lies and those who propagate them are not hiding their intent. My a#s needs no surgery. Messy business.
Bravo!
Reconnaissance > Emotionalism.
We are all too often so eager to spite our enemies that we spite ourselves.
Exactly. You don’t have to join and engage to view for ‘recon’ purposes!
Sun Tzu – know your enemy ……….
Thank you.
I was going to ignore an opposing viewpoint. At this stage it’s wearisome. Just that spitting out a one cure-all solution thrown at others while brandishing a self-awarded medal about not having been somewhere got me to bring out the zipper.
Most people I know have no problem trying to reach some one else who really does not know, or point why they shouldn’t be so quick to make everything about themselves while everybody else is lumped together as ‘needing to deal with .. specifically, dealing the Devil.
It’s not what is said but the way it’s said.
If my aS* undergoes surgery it will be on my own volition just because it is necessary; messy as surgery is to effect a cure for ignorance, arrogance, spite, impatience; whatever in myself (we are all not immune from personal faults) and whatever it take for healing. Certainly not because of dealing with the Devil, for convenience .. yada yada.
Pardon my French – there for the Grace God goes I.
I’ve never joined Twitter, but I read it often. You don’t have to be a member to read, just to comment.
I see the really high-school-cruel comments and bashing of anyone’s view but someone’s own.
That’s why I have never wanted to join. I admire those who do take the conversation to Twitter with proof and stand and stand and stand despite the shallow mean-ness.
If I follow through on getting on Twitter it will be in order to support via subscription those creators and combatants whose work I value.
I don’t intend to build up numbers or a following of any nature at all, I value my voice here where I am not endlessly beset by demonic souls and dirty bots, but the ability to support and perhaps communicate thoughts for the brave souls wading through the filth with broadswords of truth is tempting.
I do agree, most souls there appear to have never had a grandma and know not the value of kindness.
Of course it is, with DHS above, and CIA below.
They called it Building 8 at fakebook.
Facebook’s Building 8 head, Regina Dugan, is leaving the company
techcrunch.com/2017/10/17/facebooks-consumer-hardware-chief-regina-dugan-is-leaving-the-company/
Love ❤️ ‘fakebook’
Reason 698 that I have never tweeted, nor ever will.
Same here!
2018
Nice reminder for everyone. Thanks!
Smartest man in the business world … welcomes the Trojan horse.
Anyone can be successful in the business world if their every endeavor is financed, subsidized and/or supported by any and all means by the full weight of the US Government & major foreign political party (CCP). How could one fail?
So…. is Tucker climbing aboard with the new, woke Pilot?
First loss is your best loss Tucker.
Get out before something vital gets singed.
See, I have been wondering about this. What if Yaccarino’s position with the Twit had been announced before Tucker was asked to assume a position there? Would he have chosen to accept?
Probably. They all work for the same team.
It’s a good test. If Tucker goes on the twit and can say what he wants to say with no censorship, then I’m inclined towards option 3.
Executives do what they want regardless of what the organization is all about. Her addition could also be a return of the old monitoring of users albeit more subdued and off the radar. It could also be one way for the DEI groups to funnel desired actions within the org without Musk having to get his hands dirty and giving him plausible deniability in his responses.
“Executives do what they want regardless of what the organization is all about.” I don’t know what world you live in. Remember this, because it makes this situation a little more unique. Twitter is not corporate america. Twitter is a privately owned company. As is SpaceX. I doubt any executives at SpaceX or Tesla are doing what they want regardless of what the organization is all about. Musk thinks this woman can produce, without interfering with what he wants. Is he right? I don’t know. But for whatever reason he thinks that. He fired a lot of people at Tesla and SpaceX along the way, too. Turned out pretty good. Let’s see what happens
Let’s see what happens.
AMEN!!
I’ve worked for private companies for decades… Every one has directors and executives that are sociopaths and on the surface they tow the Co line. Behind closed doors however.. they do what they want.. They make things up and lie all the damn time. How fortunate you are to have never dealt with this type of environment. Lucky you.
Tucker is going to trade a headache for an upset stomach.
Never could take Carlson seriously. Nothing wrong with being a capitalist, but you and your ilk won’t be collecting from me.
Just read High Altitude by Glenn K. Beaton. Funny read about woke Aspen.
High Attitude
Wondering if this bimbo he hired has already sent the trolls to this site?
if not yet, they will. Be on the lookout. I have no doubt this site and its content are monitored closely by the Government Red Army. The Uniparty likely has posters on this site as well that will eventually muck-up the comments section like they do on every other right-leaning site.
This site is the only site I actually read comments and make comments. The rest are an ashtray of robo-posts intended to devalue the comments completely. They will try here too. Not sure how to stop it?
Spitballing. Ad Rem, Wee Weed, and Menangerie are rerouting traffic as we write.
Yes, ad-rem and co. do hurculean work to keep our site clean of those who violate the posting guidelines, etc.
However, this site is different than others because the commenters also work to “police” the site by not letting comments by ‘influencers’ to go unchallenged.
Rather than simply calling them a “concern troll” (actually, calling someone a “Troll” is specifically forboten, according to the Treehouse guidelines!) I prefer the approach of simply posting a comment refuting their assertions, trying to use logic, rhetoric, compare/contrast etc. to demonstrate the assertion or assertions in their comment are untenable.
They post here, in order to capitalise on and exploit Sundances tremendous readership, to “amplify” their message and influence opinion.
A prompt, logical refutation of their assertions, “flips” the dynamic, like judo uses your opponents efforts to defeat them.
So, bring on the influencers, WELCOME them. Their comments, challenging our group accepted “givens” actually benefit us, in that by making the counter arguments, we are having said “givens” tested, so that we hopefully avoid falling into the trap of “groupthink”.
I will refer to them from now on as “little people”.
Exactly! While annoying ankle biters, sometimes they make the commenters do better.
Agree with Dutch’s response to you. I bust them out almost everyday here lately, usually by the tactics Dutch describes.
We also have some nut jobs. I just got one taken down a few hours ago. See Ad rem response to me below. I’ve caught this guy or bot about 5 times just in the last week.
Flag those immediately. Per Ad rem, 10 flags will get their attention. If it is real bad (vulgar, threatening, blasphemous, repeat rule breaker, etc) send an email (see at top of site), they’ll be on it ‘like white on rice.’
You got it, Brother!
Engagement is usually the best policy, but some are genuinely malevolent and merit only a prompt dispatch.
In order to not have to recite the long litany of faux identities that character uses, I have decided to dub the serial offender you referenced as Slimer; a non-terminal repeating phantasm, or a class five free-roaming vapor, a real nasty one too.
Not that I am seeking to aggravate or provoke, not my style and unproductive for the Treehouse’s comity, but there simply is no other option for dealing with such a silly hateful person, or bot, that traffics in endless sock-puppetry.
Many sincerely engage the wicked aspersions it spews, and not realizing where it is really coming from, respond with puzzled kindness, for which I would never fault anyone, but it is good for us to all become more aware of the intensity of the battle that is being sent our way and more attuned to poisonous spiels that merit only being squelched.
I’ve wondered the same exact thoughts at the end of your comment. Either that or an AI/bot that was programmed that way.
BTW, you were spoke of real well regarding this very issue today by ……
Feel me?
The kindness is appreciated, I do what I can, blessed to have a place where my broken self can be worthily engaged in the fight.
They stand out
The perception managers announce themselves like synchronized swimmers.
Transparency. They don’t like to talk about “means and methods”.
It’s a big secret…/s
The Rules of Disinformation
scribd.com/document/57335680/Twenty-Five-Ways-to-Suppress-Truth-The-Rules-of-Disinformation
TJ, this is such a valuable thing for folks to read, even though it is somewhat dated, it is amazing how some new names show up and start dragging everyone down with these tactics.
The ploy that I’ve observed most here fall for, due to kindness and not recognizing the patterns, is a long emotional appeal for Treepers to support them in their extreme almost life threatening despair over the plight of the world and our nation, in which they slip one or two poison pills, and kind-hearted Treepers rush to support them and click that like button, and those that query their intent regarding the poison pills contained within are not supported or liked at all as they are perceived as abusing the poor tormented soul at the end of his hope, thusly the pill is swallowed without protest or awareness.
I am not a fan of such manipulation, and encourage our Treeper Family to review your offering here.
M – ‘he’ and ‘they’ are ‘liking’ themselves some of the time. Watched it in real time a few times. They post and then instantly have a like or work as partners.
Pretty sure you and I can handle this guy if we’re on site or warn others. That’s something that I started doing until the mods can address.
It can change its masks but it can never disguise its voice.
One of the wonders of the Treehouse is how it helps develop discernment and perception as well as understanding, how we engage malcontents gives us the opportunity to participate in that process.
Our Slimer doesn’t realize it’s only helping inoculate folks against its tactics.
Yesterday, the Twitter celebrity, Catturd, posted for all to see that the #1 trend early afternoon was RIPTwitter. In about an hour of so of that post, Twitter took down that trend. To put in context, DAY ONE after the announcement. Not sure, but I don’t even think Yaccarino had physically started.
If not, that leads me to conclude that Elon never meant what he said.
However, I’m biased since I’ve claimed since day 1 of his taking the reins and as recently as just 1-2 days ago, Musk is DS!!!!!
Elon Musk meets with Chuck Schumer to “discuss the future, A.I, and the Economy”
Welcome aboard.
They mentioned it on litterbox.
https://rumble.com/c/InTheLitterBox
There are doubtless still many Derp State implants within Twitter, and backdoors aplenty, principally DHS.
I hope Musk realizes that firing 90% was not a sufficiently radical housecleaning.
The rats need taken out and the holes plugged.
Sundance, apparently I’m not old enough to see that tweet 😂
Let’s be Frank… What else should be expected from a CCP asset & a gubmint WelfareWhore?
Go, mom!
CCP asset? Got proof?
Nope.
Start with Tesla. He’s a CCP asset in the same way that all oligarchs, financial titans & politicians are.
They’re either using our 💰to fund the rise of communism or giving our manufacturing away to fund the rise of slavery for a few pieces of silver. All are giving most or all of their technology away for still another piece of silver then claiming the theft of intellectual property.
Others are legislating the path for all of the above.
Need more?
Some people on the right are so quick to embrace these known liberals when they finally say something (anything) we remotely agree with. Bill Maher is one example, but there are many more.
We should leave these people alone and never trust them ever. Stop quoting them and spreading their nonsense. None of it is real and none of it matters. Who listens to Bill Maher anyway?
Twitter was never going to be a home for free speech and you can rest-assured all of the Deep-State influence at Twitter is alive and well. You’ll never convince me Musk wasn’t aware of what these government agencies were doing in the Twitter-space.
Just stay off the site for Pete’s Sake. Plenty of alternatives. Same with Facebook, Instagram, etc..
This!
Times 10000000000
Felix,
Respectfully disagree, and rather would urge DISCERNMENT.
AS has been pointed out, Reagan and DJT were at one time Democrats, until as Reagan said “I didn’t leave the Democrat party, it left me!”
Straka started the “walkaway” and had 10’s of 1000’s of videos, before they took them down.
I believe we are seeing a SECOND wave of liberals walking away now, as the seperation of the wheat and chaff continues.
Our enemy survives by lies and division. Cut through BOTH, and they perish.
And, cutting through one, invariably cuts through the other.
Any time we are thinking “Us vs Them” about others, Satan smiles.
If they are walking away as you say, then they will not be on Twitter much longer.
If Truth Tellers are no longer on Twitter, the Truth Seekers will leave it as well.
The Seekers will begin looking at other choices and THAT will be the place to be.
Truth tellers have a way of wading into public places and dining with prostitutes.
I have loved ones who are liberal.
I’m not walking away from them.
If nothing else, maybe they will eventually grab the life ring I toss them.
It cannot be the case that some groups have special rights because they see themselves as more human or in any other way ethically superior to other groups.
As seen in the ‘special rights’ of, for instance .. apartheid can never be justified and are ruled out by any account of shared dignity based on ethical individualism.
Group rights based on human dignity can therefore never help to justify the superiority of any group. Instead they have an enabling aspect.
Throughout the history of the world, cultural heritage destruction around the world though not from man’s maliciousness but through economic development, poverty, lack of training, and lack of resources. The damage to historical artifacts and cultural heritage as happened in colonial Spanish Guatemala, for example was from conservation efforts which destroyed an entire world of legal paperwork and private documents from the colonial period. Lost to modern-day historians looking to understand the Spanish colonial period in Guatemala.
On a larger scale, the inferior have tried to rule the world. Through destruction, sabotage, conquer, treachery, humiliation, racial ideologies, intimidation, cruelty, dehumanization and terrorisation .. where human dignity is violated.
Usurping God’s sovereignty. The conquering largest empires have all disappeared. What we have are usurpers of power, pillagers of wealth not belonging to them, cowards and traitors lacking morals, scruples or sense of duty. Unelected usurpers of power and position where there are friends, even among thieves and murderers. The vilest of “little people”
Thas right Charlie Brown. Musk says something we want to hear and people forget or are desperately willing to overlook everything else. Lucy wants us to punt the football again. Resist.
Watch Space X become Elons Magic Coffee Shop
How do you envision that transpiring?
He gets a call with an offer he cant refuse. Keep in mind every institution is captured. There is no more law or justice.
No, I mean I’m genuinely curious what a Magic Space X Coffee Shop looks like in your estimation?
What changes, what are the ramifications, who is deceived thwarted or whatever and how?
How does what you suggest play out once Derp State force is applied?
You cant imagine what it might look like after everything you know? Elon can continue to allow the government to run Twitter and in return SpaceX becomes the defacto US space program. Thats one scenario.
You will never hear about Space Force again because Trump created it and its competition for Space X
I’m not asking what I might imagine, I am not making the assertion I am seeking to understand.
I’m asking how this plays out, not in generalities, but in any specific manner that in the least resembles Jacks Magic Coffee Shop?
I don’t see what you are prognosticating, and I surely can’t see how your examples resemble the Coffee Shop, they simply aren’t the same animals or purposes.
I already know you dont want to see it.
Don’t presume to know such a thing.
I don’t put words in your mouth, don’t you put thoughts in my head.
‘ while the Last Refuge has 19 rules of their own for free speech.’
I like to think of that as rules for a civilized discussion. There are other sites that allow a free for all.
I reject the “INO” theory. I accept the default to monetization theory. Unfortunately, Musk’s occasional nod to free speech is just a huckster’s spiel to get you into the Twitter tent. Tucker needs to move on. Never forget – Musk openly stated how he willingly voted for Obama, for Biden and against Trump.
Sorry. I hold no illusions about Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Bobby Kennedy, etc.
I don’t trust any of them.
Controlled opposition, much?
Yes, I frequently like what they espouse.
None of these media or political actors are your friends.
I judge Trump on what he did accomplish — with nonstop interference and harassment.
We are being distracted and played IMHO.
I know that DJT is flawed. However, he advanced farming, jobs, energy, etc. for the benefit of this country more than any other president. He may have flaws — but he essentially did not sell us out.
I am tired of the bs distractions. I want to keep the focus on who can actually get the job done!
IMO, DJT is not flawed. He’s my perfect president.
A trump / Bobby Kennedy clone would be my perfect Prez
My two cents. Trump, yes –no clone needed. We have the real person. Kennedy, no.
Two cents, a truck load of sense.
rfkjr may be a lib, but wow, go find his two russel brand interview snippets today abt cvid and youkrane.. great historical context
People say a lot of things..doesn’t mean they uphold them. See RDS.
these “old-school” liberals are doing 10 x more damage to this new radical democrat party than anyone in the establishment g.o.pe…..they are much closer to our maga p.o.v . than the bushes/roves/frank luntz`s/rupert murdochs ever were…..
we need more of this,not less…
IMHO, the ONLY potential challenger to PDJT that could possibly give him a real “run for the $” in terms of a political contest (putting aside any ballot fraud issues, in other words) is RFK JR.
He already HAS all of those (frankly emotionally driven rather than strategic thinkers) that are ONE ISSUE-VAX voters.
Add to that, I suspect MANY of those “walk-a-way” Dems, who said “I didn’t leave the party, it left ME!” would run back like a girlfriend, to a boyfriend that had previously broken their heart, and was now making overtures.
For him to have ANNOUNCED, and then when asked about the border, to have so aggregiously been unprepared with an answer was an unconscionable blunder, particularly just before title 42 expiration.
Your going to have to go down their and STUDY the situation? For a photo-op no doubt. If you haven’t ALREADY studied the situation (and with no need to travel there
personally)
WTF are you doing announcing a run for POTUS??
Because there are only a few issues he really cares about. After all, it was his Uncle Ted who opened the border in 1986 with the revised immigration law.
WTF are you doing announcing a run for POTUS??
To draw the awakening from PDJT.
A splitter from the Dem side.
That is the one place where he shines. He will not be agreeable to the rest of the MAGA agenda.
It means something that he does not have his family’s support.
Yes. RFKJr is not my cup of tea for MAGA ideology in any aspect but he gets a couple of things very right, and he isn’t afraid to go head to head with his critics, with facts and reason.
I’m looking forward to the Dem primaries. It should be highly entertaining watching the Biden handlers deal with him.
Also if for any reason Trump gets kept off the ballot in the general election, DeSanctimonious’ handlers are going to blow a cork if they have to go against RFKJr.
i
m holding my water until i see how this thing plays out...i
m all for folks like kennedy jr/tulsi ,russell brand and musk hammering the bad guys(tucker isnt one of them...c
mon,thats nuts).....
the enemy of my enemy is my friend ....i dont see the g.o.pe out there hammering them….so i
ll happily give them all the benefit of the doubt until they prove me wrong....i think what they
re doing is very effective…theyre showing others how the "new democrat party" overreaches to the point that they
re pushing out actual old school democrats…and thats a good thing...overreach is something the extreme left can never seem to get a handle on and in the end i
m hoping it destroys them…if we keep shitting all over every convert…every voice that is actively pounding these america haters we
re going to end up in a breadbox-sized tent all by ourselves...
be vigilant...but lets not cut our noses off to spite our faces until it`s warranted…….
RFK, Jr. is NOT Deep State. I’ve followed him long enough for his work with Children’s Health Defense (ChildrensHealthDefense.org) and the autism community to know that. I assume that our government hates Mr. Kennedy more than it does President Trump. Regardless, I am voting for President Trump! I DO respect Bobby Kennedy in a non-political role.
When President Trump is reelected, I believe that Mr. Kennedy could help his administration a great deal–IF he were willing. He has already said that he would NOT join President Trump’s ticket as his VP, but that does not preclude helping him dismantle the Deep State and restructure our government when President Trump is reelected and he WILL BE!!!!!!!
Prayers for President Trump, his family, his team, our citizens, our country, Sundance, admins, and fellow Treepers!!!
Would love to see Sarah Palin stand in the VP slot.
Two known leaders with proven records of accomplishment.
Everyone else would just be a “popularity contest.”
Are you just confused?
Can’t tell an opinion from a fact?
Good grief.
Musk found the end of his leash when Matt Tabbai made public the .gov portals.
He installed a government minder.
This makes a lot of sense, penny munday; BLESSINGS! 🙂
My take is the Deep State made him an offer. He wants to push his futuristic X app on everyone and wanted a way to leverage a deal in his favor with the powers that be.
This makes sense, as well, AlwaysFaithful; BLESSINGS! 🙂 What about all of us joining and/or using Truth Social? There’s a Web version now, so smartphones aren’t required. What do you think, Sundance, admins, and fellow Treepers???
I don’t think you’re correct about Sundance, Ming. I am a conspiracy theorist and Sundance hasn’t banned me yet. It’s actually kind of nice being a conspiracy theorist. I’ve discovered that one of the best things about it is not having myocarditis.
All these points are indicators. Not denying. I’m looking at Musk’s track record of hiring talented executives for SpaceX, Tesla, and his many other ventures. He’s done well. I’m taking a wait and see position on Twitter.
On top of this, he’s staying on as the CTO – so there is control over the tech.
If the CEO starts hiring a bunch of DEI (D.I.E.) moderator staff, then watch out. I’d be surprised if this happens giving Musks 90% cut in Twitter (non-essential) staff.
I could be wrong and have been plenty of times in the past.
Now name one business venture he’s involve with that isn’t intricately tied to the government……
Trump just canceled rally tonight due to tornado warnings.
HAARP?
HAARP warning.
Oh no!!! 🙁 That’s a total BUMMER! 🙁
Is it China that’s pushing the DEI narrative in USA to destroy us socially first?
Is Twitter CEO hire merely a smoke screen for China?
No. We have our own ideologues. Help from China is unnecessary….we’re able to do this ourselves.
Buh-bye, Tucker Carlson. It was fun while it lasted.
This is a very succinct explanation of how DEI turns marketing from a reactive posture to a pro- active one.
The first corporations to do this were the media
uh oh. Or, i think could be reason 4: ino due to too much exposure of his WH activities.. sshhh
I would also like CTH viewers to consider watching any/all of his Space X video cartoons. Believable?
Not sure what you are asking, is what believable?
Starship?
Mods are on their game today! That was quick. Thanks, guys!
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I’ve heard people say that Trump is making a big mistake by not going back to Twitter but, once again, he appears to be smarter than all the people who want to give him advice. Maybe this woman will actually be fair though. I’m actually going to give her the benefit of the doubt until she no longer deserves it. I’m not going on Twitter either though.
The Tucker/Musk partnership on Twitter was intended to wean MAGA off of Trump’s Truth Social.
As I said above, let’s all join Truth Social! There’s a Web-based version, so you don’t need a smartphone.
Sundance, it’s Option 1…Musk was never committed to free speech
Yak yak yak (hairball): “Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach.” A/K/A..throttling, shadow banning, cancellation
AND, YET, after this statement by Hairball, he still hired her
Yep.
You are free to say whatever you desire within their TOS but that doesn’t mean they let people see what you post.
Isn’t that called shadowbanning?
No matter how obvious a situation is, in this case even from the beginning based upon musks ongoing government ties with intelligence agencies and DOD in starlink and SpaceX, It seems that folks still get suckered and fall repeatedly into the “Battered Conservative Syndrome”.
On the good side musk did us all a favor bringing the horse to the water and now it’s up to us to drink.
If Musk wasn’t in with the DOD and intelligence community they would never have given him Twitter. Twitter is his reward for doing so well with SpaceX star link and other Intel Military ventures. I wonder if musk’s money even belongs to him.
Wake up and smell the coffee please.
Musk is likely the corporate capitalistic veneer to cover for government run enterprises such as Starlink, Twitter, Neuralink, etc.
Jeff Bezos and Zuckerberg, too.
First off, as numerous commenters have said, in different ways, you can LIKE what someone SAYS (as in AGREE with it) without then transfering that “like” from the words, to the person.
Think Grahams kavanaugh speech.
Secondly, its words vs actions. For years, because we were battered conservatives, we were SO happy to hear someone, ANYONE say what we thought and felt, that we fell head over heels in love with them (again, think LG).
The whole 4 year term of Gov for RDS was capitalising on this, and only NOW do we see it.
The thing is, if indeed Musks buying twitter WAS a “limited hangout” such measures aren’t done because they WANT to, but because they are FORCED to.
We all KNEW they were heavily censoring the I-net, to manipulate public opinion.
But, a LOT of info has come out about HOW they have been doing it, how large and pervasive it is,
etc.
They revealed a lot, and not sure what they gained as a result?
Imo, buying time while everyone relaxes and ‘thinks ’ all of their methods have been revealed, ie throwing all the hounds of the trail because the hounds think they found all the foxes.
Meanwhile, they’re consolidating more power and developing/implementing more and newer methods & tools to employ, if not already employed.
how can you call twat his reward when it came w/a $44 billion dollar price tag? hmmm…
In a free market, competition is essential. When it involves large corporations, a rule of thumb is that you need at least three competitors, for instance, when we had the big three US auto manufacturers. That kind of competition forces innovation and customer service, in contrast to for instance, the Yugo. Is Truth Social a viable competitor to Twitter? Is there another one on the horizon? Can government entities be banned? In other words, can we have a free digital press?
Musk must think that we’re all stupid.
The Joker has the same exact smile. Someone will make a meme soon I think.
This is all about money. The left pulled all advertising from Twitter months ago. Clearly it’s affecting the bottom line. Ths diversity hire is accepted by the left. Her job is to bring advertising ($$$) back. Mr Musk knows this makes him look bad, but I think it’s obvious he’s concerned about the financial drain that twitter has become and this is an attempt to plug the drain.
The success of Western Civilization is founded on – among many things – the deliberate delay of immediate gratification to help those around us and to save for the future to benefit all.
That’s what’s being destroyed – Our Humanity.
Where are we headed? – The Law of the Jungle.
Maybe she’ll do anything for the big bucks?
What Elon is talking about is aligning woke advertising to woke spaces in the ecosystem. How this is designed into the system I don’t know. But this is what he wants. Some kind of compartmentalism in the structure.
Who Is Linda Yaccarino, Twitter’s New CEO? (theepochtimes.com)
Yaccarino interviewed Musk on stage at an advertising conference in Miami last month, where she encouraged him to consider allowing advertisers to have an influence on the platform’s content.
“So you’ve got a massive platform, you have a vision that is a spectrum of just daily, open sourced conversation, and they can conduct their lives, their business, their commerce, whatever they can do on your platform, that’s a pretty big vision,” she said.
“But in the middle should be advertising opportunity; it sounds like a great opportunity. I can talk about my brand, I can get my customers to communicate, and they can also buy stuff; it sounds pretty good, right? … But they need to feel there is an opportunity for them to influence what you’re building, that vision.”
In response, Musk said, “It is important that—if I were to say ‘yes, you would be able to influence me,’ that would be wrong. That would be very wrong. That would be a diminishment in freedom of speech.”
Yaccarino responded, “I want to be more specific about influencing. It’s more of an open feedback loop for the advertising experts in this room to help develop Twitter into a place where they will be excited about investing more money. Product development, ad safety, content moderation—that’s where the influence is.”
Musk again responded with freedom of speech concerns.
“It’s totally cool to say that you want your advertising to appear in certain places on Twitter and not in other places,” Musk said. “But it is not cool to try to say what Twitter will do. And if that means losing advertising dollars, we lose it. But freedom of speech is paramount.”
She also asked whether Musk would commit to reinstating a “much-loved influence council” allowing advertisers to communicate with Twitter’s leadership.
“Well, I don’t think it should be ‘influence council,’” Musk replied. “I would be wary of that creating a backlash among the public. Because if the public thinks that their views are being determined by a small number of CMOs in America, they will be, I think, upset about that.
“But feedback, I think, is appropriate, and at the end of the day, if somebody is spending money for their ad campaign, it needs to yield results for their organization, or it doesn’t make sense.”
Jack Phillips, Lorenz Duchamps, and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
<i> you have a vision that is a spectrum of just daily, open sourced conversation,</i>
LOL. What the hell is “open sourced conversation”?
I think this chick’s command of English is less than impressive …
Dontcha just know they be thinking we stupid? 🤣
Well, love “the CNN Townhall massacre” (in 3 part harmony?).
That Twitter censored it indeed confirms what some have been saying, that Musks avowed goal of making Twitter a platform for Free Speech has been less that complete.
One other FORTH possibility occurs to me.
Many have pointed out how virtually ALL of Musks enterprises are utterly dependant on the Fed Govt, from Tesla to rocket launches and satelites, etc.
Perhaps in addition to using back doors to continue to censor content, THEY just made it clear to him how thoroughly they could ruin him, if he didn’t comply, and this hire is his capitulation.
In any case,…’lets see what happens’ ,..never was signed up to twitter, and I still get annoyed when someone posts just a link to twitter, with no context or explanation.
I HAVE followed such links, and have seen good memes, etc.
But, as we know by amplifying/deamplifying, selective editing and shadowbanning, they CAN manipulate public opinion.
Are you saying he’s compromised? LOL 😂
Just messing with you. Hope all is well.
Matt Taibbi knows the answer
https://www.racket.news/p/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b
Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to KnowThe citizen’s starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel SUSAN SCHMIDT, ANDREW LOWENTHAL, TOM WYATT, TECHNO FOG, AND 4 OTHERS
MAY 10, 2023
Introduction by Matt Taibbi
https://www.racket.news/p/callin-discussion-today-at-300-est
Callin Discussion Today at 3:00 EST: On the “Top 50 Organizations to Know” in the Censorship-Industrial ComplexOn the release of Racket’s “Top 50” census of “anti-disinformation” organizations, why the general public will have to keep fighting to keep track of the exploding censorship bureaucracy MATT TAIBBI
MAY 10, 2023
Frankly, she sounds like an idiot. Evidently, Musk thinks she either is tremendously competent and able or just that she is a good “lobbiest” for Twitter among the advertisers but, just listening to her, she is kind of stupid.
That said, Musk already did the important stuff with respect to Twitter by opening it up and showing the criminal leftist actions that Twitter was so much a part of. He also helped expose (for those who couldn’t figure out the obvious) that government officials were breaking the law using Twitter for government censorship. That is all done, thanks to Musk – even though no one seems to really care much about the revelations and I doubt anyone is headed off to jail for their crimes that have been exposed. What happens to Twitter from here on out is irrelevant.
Musk did his work. Now, he hired a post-turtle to bring some ad dollars back. Whatever …
Flush!!!!! the sound of 44billion ..down the drain
Twitter is altogether evil.
Cast it into the fire.
IMO the purpose is to make sure RDS is the candidate. Clearly he is the chosen one of TPTB
“Either Musk really doesn’t believe in what he previously advocated, or Musk has hit a wall of acceptance and generating revenue is now more important than the platform itself?
*For the latter, essentially the economics of the thing is determining the outcome of the thing.*”
Except that would only apply if Yaccarino was the ONLY available choice in the whole wide world.
She’s not, not even close, especially if your objective is not to destroy your brand in the process.
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“Musk is still committed but needs to create the illusion of DEI acceptance.”
This also does not make sense, because Musk has no need to create the illusion of DEI acceptance.
The whole reason he bought Twitter and took it PRIVATE was to ESCAPE the corporate DEI / ESG / Globull Warming / Tranny & General Sexual Perversion blackmail of snakes like BlackRock who compel corporate decisions from their positions on the boards of directors, backed by their ownership interest in those corporations.
Bringing the enemy into the camp, and making her CEO, is game over.
Unless, just possibly, his whole point is to give her however much rope she needs to hang herself, and in the process, show the whole world what the whole world already knows — Yaccarino and her ilk are toxic to everything they touch.
Demand has been being created by the same evil nuts who try to monetize and commodify every human action. They don’t care if it destroys everything.
Musk is Mr. Gubmnt Subsidy. They’re into him for billions. He’s on the hook!!
I don’t think that’s accurate.
Tesla has paid back the govt loans. And, without SpaceX, NASA has no hardware/software.
The government is more dependent on Musk than he is on them.
There are those times one needs be a bit suspicious, while: “In considering the last element, Mrs. Yaccarino does not present herself as an ino-person who will accept a position and then not deliver on the intent of her mission. The words her mission after his hiring, seems to suggest a question I suppose is the intent of the complete article, while his taking a couple of slices of the loaf, and then setting back, watch her reinvent our problem, Musk take the gains ( a couple more slices ) repeat. Repeat. Having been in the suspicion business, for 60 + counting, in seeing Musk as one who chatted with
the likes of Tucker, the beltway circus, snd his “seemingly” distain for censorship, peeps up folks.
My other point is that the Russian mis-use or alternative use of English can be reversed, and must be. Examples: There are no liberals, we are not conservative, we are Constitutionally oriented, and more. Being 80, I am having trouble with a triple merger of Slideshare, linkedin, Scribed, and cannot figure out how to log in to my account. Will be back later.