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Elon Musk has vowed to file a 'thermonuclear lawsuit' as major advertisers desert X after the tycoon agreed with an anti-Semitic post.

The billionaire, 52, has promised to hit back against what he claims is a 'fraudulent attack' on his company by media watchdog non-profit Media Matters for America.

It comes after he sparked a firestorm on Wednesday by responding to a man who claimed: 'Jewish communities have been pushing dialectical hatred against whites.'

Elon Musk vows to file 'thermonuclear lawsuit' as major advertisers desert X/Twitter after tycoon agreed with anti-Semitic post | Daily Mail Online

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9 minutes ago, pellinore said:

He seems too irresponsible to run Twitter as a business successfully: Elon Musk Is a Far-Right Activist - The Atlantic

He dodged mandatory military service because of "Apartheid". Yet his money comes from Apartheid.

Another right wing chicken hawk tw@t. 

Dockworkers and postal workers in Sweden are refusing to unload Teslas off of cargo ships and delivering the company their mail until he allows his workers to unionize. 

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There isn't a stronger, more constant supporter of the Jewish state here on UM than myself and when a little context is given to his words I can agree with him.  He simply spoke the truth, at least concerning Jews in the US.  They support the Democrat party consistently at over 80-90 percent in every election and as card carrying members of the Left in America - like most here - DO support the aims and the rhetoric of that party of hate toward whites in the country.  If you guys want to deny it, feel free, I have no need to go gathering examples to make a case you aren't honest enough to even acknowledge.  If that makes him an anti-Semite then they could say the same of me.  Considering my history of support for Israel, I'd say you'd have to be mental to accuse me of that.  

I wish him the best with his lawsuit in a land that only has justice for the supporters of one political party.

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35 minutes ago, WVK said:

I seem to recall that the Left didn’t have a problem with Musk before he bought Twitter.  Now he’s a goose-stepping Nazi.

I thought he was in trouble this time for basically saying Israel deserved to be attacked.  Is this a right wing stance now?

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On 11/18/2023 at 6:33 PM, Piney said:

**** that closet Nazi. 

Not, as the saying goes, even with a borrowed c***.

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The media working overtime again to convince people that Musk is a right wing fanatic. Sadly it appears to be working. Anyone remember that interview saying hate speech was increasing on Twitter/X, the interviewer literally said they had seen it, but then when Musk asked for even a single cited example the interviewer said "I haven't been on Twitter for months", to which Musk asks him "how could you have seen an increase in hatred then"? And the interviewer had no answer :lol: 

This is more of the same, really. 

 

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14 hours ago, WVK said:

I seem to recall that the Left didn’t have a problem with Musk before he bought Twitter.  Now he’s a goose-stepping Nazi.

What about when he called the diver who rescued the trapped children a pedophile for saying musk's submarine idea was dumb - and it was. 

He wasn't very popular over that. Don't think he owned it back then. 

He didn't used to speak publically. When he bought twitter he started opening his mouth on a regular basis and everything went downhill from there. Basically he is an entitled d*******. He should have just kept his mouth shut. People didn't mind the EV space guy. Once he started commenting on twitter, a lot of people found out that behind the brain is a complete and utter jerk. People don't like him because of him. It seems really hard for right wingers to understand that disagreeing with them isn't instantly some agenda driven program. 

Tesla investors are also nervous and I expect a lot of them to drop Tesla in the future. Then how will he keep twitter, which is losing money hand over fist. 

Tesla investors plead with Elon Musk to leave Twitter and refocus on the electric car company in 'a vote of no confidence in Elon

Musk warns of Twitter bankruptcy as more senior executives quit

He's a walking train wreck with an Errol Flynn touch (everything he touches is fkd).

The dumbass incorrectly mislabeled news sources, got them annoyed and now they left. Advertisers, influencers, businesses are all pulling away. They aren't all influenced by your personal idea that the media demonised Musk. It just so happens that the guy is a mouthy ahole to boot. 

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13 hours ago, WVK said:

I seem to recall that the Left didn’t have a problem with Musk before he bought Twitter.  Now he’s a goose-stepping Nazi.

He was an entitled ass before he  bought a social media platform. Now he's an entitled ass who bans anyone who disagrees agrees with him. He's turned into Trump lite. 

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56 minutes ago, Hankenhunter said:

He was an entitled ass before he  bought a social media platform. Now he's an entitled ass who bans anyone who disagrees agrees with him. He's turned into Trump lite. 

You're getting mixed up - that was Twitter BEFORE Musk bought it. Nowadays people can say much more freely what they wish without fear of account closure. 

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29 minutes ago, Paranoid Android said:

You're getting mixed up - that was Twitter BEFORE Musk bought it. Nowadays people can say much more freely what they wish without fear of account closure. 

Yea...sure.  You believe it because Elon tells you that?

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Twitter has fully complied with more than 80% of government and courts’ requests to remove or alter content since Elon Musk bought the company, up from around 50% before he took over, according to a report from the technology publication Rest of World, reflecting a discordance with the billionaire’s promises to limit political censorship.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/twitter-has-complied-with-almost-every-government-request-for-censorship-since-musk-took-over-report-finds/?sh=74d262b24ea4

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58 minutes ago, Agent0range said:

Perhaps you can tell me how this in any way contradicts what I said! Keep in mind that I didn't say there was zero moderation under Musk, only that it is better now than it was when anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders was silenced by left wing Twitter mods if they expressed an opinion they didn't like. 

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Musk’s Twitter is getting worse

Musk’s Super Bowl meltdown, as reported by Platformer, is one of the clearest signs so far of Twitter’s decline. Musk, apparently livid because his tweets about the Super Bowl were getting fewer views than President Joe Biden’s, flew to Twitter’s headquarters and ordered engineers to change the algorithm underlying Twitter’s main product to boost his own tweets above everyone else’s so that they show at the top of Twitter users’ “For You” page. Musk’s cousin, James Musk — who is now a full-time employee and a reported “fixer type” within the company — reportedly sent an urgent 2 am message asking all capable engineers to help, and the company tasked 80 engineers to manually tweak Twitter’s underlying system to promote Musk’s tweets.

Soon after the change, many users started noticing their feeds had been bombarded with Musk’s tweets. Musk seemed to acknowledge the phenomenon, posting a meme showing a woman labeled “Elon’s tweets” force-feeding a bottle of milk to another woman labeled “Twitter,” and later posting that Twitter was making “adjustments” to its algorithm.

A few examples: Musk, in the free-speech spirit of letting people say almost anything they want on Twitter, restored the accounts of thousands of previously suspended users, including neo-Nazi and QAnon accounts. That was one of the driving factors, researchers told the New York Times, behind a rise in hate speech on the platform, including an over 200 percent increase in anti-Black slurs from when Musk took over until December 2022 — upsetting many users who already struggled with harassment on the platform.

On an ideological front, Musk’s Twitter has failed to live up to its free speech standards time and time again, starting with Musk suspending comedians like Kathy Griffin (who made fun of him) and barring users from talking on the platform about Twitter’s competitors, like decentralized social network Mastodon (after a flurry of criticism, Musk reversed the policy).

Even some popular figures who supported Musk for his free speech stance, like independent journalist Bari Weiss, have recanted their support after Musk banned several prominent journalists who have criticized him (Musk argued that the journalists doxxed him, which they denied). In recent months, former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey, who in April endorsed Musk as his successor and said he is the “singular solution” he trusts to run Twitter and “extend the light of consciousness,” has also shifted his stance and started to openly criticize Musk’s leadership, including all the recent technical glitches.

The main group of people who seem to steadfastly support the new Twitter is conservative figures and politicians. After Musk granted amnesty to many suspended accounts of right-wing provocateurs and political leaders, including shock jock Andrew Tate, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and former President Donald Trump, Musk has achieved hero status in right-wing circles, and has even had Republican-led legislation drafted in his name that would require the Department of Justice to disclose money it spends on Big Tech companies. 

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1 hour ago, psyche101 said:

Musk’s Twitter is getting worse

On an ideological front, Musk’s Twitter has failed to live up to its free speech standards time and time again, starting with Musk suspending comedians like Kathy Griffin (who made fun of him) 

That, VOX("News") article is from 8 months ago. 

Haha 

 

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1 hour ago, psyche101 said:

Musk’s Twitter is getting worse

In recent months, former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey, who in April endorsed Musk as his successor and said he is the “singular solution” he trusts to run Twitter and “extend the light of consciousness,” has also shifted his stance and started to openly criticize Musk’s leadership, including all the recent technical glitches.

Jack Dorsey on July 1: 

 

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4 hours ago, Hankenhunter said:

He was an entitled ass before he  bought a social media platform. Now he's an entitled ass who bans anyone who disagrees agrees with him. He's turned into Trump lite. 

Who are these people?

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18 hours ago, WVK said:

I seem to recall that the Left didn’t have a problem with Musk before he bought Twitter.  Now he’s a goose-stepping Nazi.

I'd say, as a regular reader of X and following Elon Musk's X account, that he's criticized equally by both Left and Right wing people. 

What's changed is before Twitter was acquired by Musk it was entirely run by Left wing people who used all sorts of tools to limit the reach of Right wing accounts including Shadow banning and Permanent suspensions without explanations. 

This changed under Musk's X. 

There's still rules on speech being enforced under X, much to the ignorance or sheer dishonesty of those who say there isn't, and it's enforced equally regardless of political spectrum of the individual. (Search X RULES using Google for reference)

The main issue the socalled Left has with how Musk runs X is that it's now providing equal treatment from the previous Twitter and they're not happy about that.  

"When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination."  -Thomas Sowell

 

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6 minutes ago, acidhead said:

There's still rules on speech being enforced under X, much to the ignorance or sheer dishonesty of those who say there isn't, and it's enforced equally regardless of political spectrum of the individual. (Search X RULES using Google for reference)

I'll save anybody the 2 second hassle to Google X's rules who ignorantly believe there are no rules: 

 
 
 
 
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On 11/18/2023 at 2:56 AM, pellinore said:

Elon Musk has vowed to file a 'thermonuclear lawsuit' as major advertisers desert X after the tycoon agreed with an anti-Semitic post.

The billionaire, 52, has promised to hit back against what he claims is a 'fraudulent attack' on his company by media watchdog non-profit Media Matters for America.

It comes after he sparked a firestorm on Wednesday by responding to a man who claimed: 'Jewish communities have been pushing dialectical hatred against whites.'

Elon Musk vows to file 'thermonuclear lawsuit' as major advertisers desert X/Twitter after tycoon agreed with anti-Semitic post | Daily Mail Online

Media Matters published a fake report to accuse twitter of antisemitism.   They purposely manipulated the algorithm creating fake accounts to follow other fringe accounts in order to manipulate the algorithm so that advertisers ads would show up on the fringe accounts.  They then went to the advertisers to try to get them to drop twitter.  That is why Elon is suing. 

Leftist propaganda at it's finest.  

 

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10 hours ago, Paranoid Android said:

Perhaps you can tell me how this in any way contradicts what I said! Keep in mind that I didn't say there was zero moderation under Musk, only that it is better now than it was when anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders was silenced by left wing Twitter mods if they expressed an opinion they didn't like. 

It literally shows there is more censorship.  80% of requests are honored now as opposed to 50% then.

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