Elon Musk $44 Billion Twitter deal

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

It was posted at 07:41am local time (where he is), so he must have been drinking through…

Well, we’ve all been there!

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Pierre

I’m sure he’s just had a drink, I’ve posted worse on here on a Friday night.

In your case, under the cloak of anonymity on a small specialist UK forum.

In Musk's case, in his own name on a large global social media platform.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

on a small specialist UK forum.

Sounds a bit suspect……….

Oops!

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/te...TX8fB1-J2DPiNU

Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Oops!

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/te...TX8fB1-J2DPiNU

When I first saw the Cybertruck, I quite liked it. But the more I look at it now, the less I like it.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Ha ha - very funny. Plus what's to handle - this is just a forum where nothing matters except the snide remarks of some.

Shouldn't speak of yourself that way.Your opinions are important and not snide in anyway.

Oh look no tongue in cheek icon..

Seems SpaceX failed again today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy77x09y0po

The latest test of Space X's giant Starship rocket has failed, minutes after launch.

Failure is relative, especially when your design process is deliberately iterative and failure tolerant. The manner of Ship’s failure may not have been one of the ones they thought likely but overall they are fully aware the system isn’t anywhere near complete or at reliability levels suitable for regular service. The BBC’s science specialists all know this so the farming of the story here is a bit odd. It looks like they have copy from a generalist freelancer, and as so often happens it has been subbed and headlined by an inexperienced junior night desk editor.

In fact the remarkable achievement here was in catching the booster, which has only been achieved once previously

Musk-related, but not relevant to Trump 2.0 thread.

FAFO…

https://mexicodailypost.com/2025/01/...g-trafficking/

Elon Musk accused Carlos Slim of alleged ties to drug trafficking

January 23, 2025

Billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and owner of the social network X (formerly known as Twitter), sparked controversy by sharing content on the platform that accuses, without evidence, Mexican businessman Carlos Slim of having ties to drug trafficking.

https://monterreydailypost.com/2025/...usks-starlink/

Carlos Slim orders to cancel his collaboration with Elon Musk’s Starlink

February 24, 2025

Elon Musk shared a post on his social network stating that Slim could have ties to criminal groups, and five minutes later, Carlos Slim canceled all business collaborations with Starlink in Latin America, which made Musk lose 7 billion US dollars.

An hour later, Slim announced that he would transfer his projects for the next 5 years with Starlink, an investment of 22 billion dollars, to companies in China and Europe.

More than money, Musk lost his main partner in 25 countries, in addition to giving up all that territory to companies of his competition and, most seriously, causing the USA to continue losing commercial presence and giving it to China

[thenry]

I don't think he cares...

“We’re going to support free speech broadly then agree to be censored for money, which is, I think, the right moral decision.”

https://pagesix.com/2024/06/19/celeb...n-be-censored/

Slimfast needs to lighten up

That was about Twitter, not StarLink, and the defender of "free speech" is suing companies because they don't want to advertise on his platform - isn't choosing where to spend/not spend your advertising budget where you want "free speech"?

[thenry]

Isn't it universal? Musks comments I mean whether it's on twitter or starlink.

Musk is chasing discrimination re: advertising?

If someone else does it, it’s discrimination - if Musk does it, it’s free speech?

Media Matters published a report alleging that Musk was allowing ads to be served next to hate speech, Musk didn’t just berate them on his own platform, he sued them.

Also, he loved Twitter’s Community Notes, until they contradicted what he said…

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/...wkward-end.php

Musk has praised Community Notes’ bridging algorithm, which ensures that corrections, or “notes,” will appear publicly only if enough users with diverse perspectives agree on their usefulness. To Musk, the system came with another bonus: it relies on regular users—as opposed to fact-checkers, whom he has deemed “evil” and “biased”—to propose corrections. Last week, however, Musk reversed course: without evidence, he wrote on X that Community Notes is “being gamed” by governments and the media, and that he is working to “fix” it.

The lash-out came after Community Notes fact-checked posts stating that Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, had a 4 percent approval rating among his citizens—a claim first spurred, likewise without evidence, by Donald Trump during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago last week. (Trump also called Zelensky illegitimate and said he was to blame for Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.) Some of Musk’s own posts and comments were temporarily corrected by Community Notes after he echoed Trump’s statement and further claimed that the Biden administration had stranded astronauts aboard the International Space Station for “political reasons.” A Tow Center analysis of Musk’s tweets from Sunday, February 16, through Sunday, February 23, found that Musk tweeted nearly 800 times, averaging 113 tweets per day (including retweets and quoted tweets). At least five of Musk’s tweets received a Community Note, of which just two remained visible at the time of this publication.

[thenry]

I don't know what to say other than hold Musk accountable then?

Accountability is the best ability

Originally Posted by thenry

I don't know what to say other than hold Musk accountable then?

Accountability is the best ability

How?