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| Musk Disbands Twitter Board, Appoints Himself 'Sole Director' | |
| 2022-11-01 | |
Immediately after completing his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on Thursday, Musk fired several senior executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal. The board included nine directors. Musk’s move is the latest in a series of overhauls he is planning on implementing. On Sunday, Musk announced that Twitter was contemplating revamping its entire approach to the blue verification badges displayed on profiles to authenticate users. "Whole verification process is being revamped right now," Musk cryptically tweeted at the time. According to Musk’s proposed plan, authenticated users will have 90 days to decide whether they wish to pay a monthly $4.99 fee or face the potential of losing their "verified" status, technology newsletter Platformer reported. Among Musk’s most provocative plans include openly considering laying off as many as 75 percent of Twitter’s workforce due to bloat as well as "its strong left-wing bias." For their part, Twitter employees have pushed back against many of Musk’s initiatives. In response to Musk making mass layoffs, employees circulated an open letter condemning the move. "A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation," the letter read in a copy obtained by Time. TRUMP SAYS HE WON’T BE RETURNING TO TWITTER AFTER ELON MUSK TAKEOVER A centerpiece of Musk’s plans has been his public commitment to free speech and correcting Twitter’s political censorship bias, which disproportionately targets conservative voices. "The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence," Musk tweeted. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... Musk noted, "Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hell-scape, where anything can be said with no consequences!" Musk has proposed a new content moderation council for Twitter to determine how to better address viewpoint diversity, hate speech, permanent bans, and account reinstatements. Related: Twitter: 2022-10-31 DHS LEAKS PROVE Government Conspiracy With Twitter, Big Tech, To Censor And Subvert Elections Twitter: 2022-10-31 Palestinian attacker shot dead after killing Israeli in West Bank Twitter: 2022-10-31 Brazil: Lula defeats Bolsonaro to win presidency in stunning election comeback | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 Maybe they will leave and screw up GETTR or Truth Social. It will be like New Hampshire. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-11-01 21:23 |
| #11 Lee Kuan Yew |
| Posted by: Glulet Sinatra2861 2022-11-01 14:01 |
| #10 Ah'm trying to recall the name of the last benevolent dictator. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-11-01 13:51 |
| #9 ^ Yeah, the "I'm leaving Sh*tter because Musk!" crowd is the same bunch that has not moved to Canada or Australia yet. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-11-01 12:55 |
| #8 Blue Checkmark Mafia keeps promising to quit Twitter over this. Some even post that Twitter should pay them for their digital presence. I pity the person who would join Twitter simply to follow one of these woke simps. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2022-11-01 12:49 |
| #7 LOL! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2022-11-01 11:26 |
| #6 "It'll be a massacre!" "That's the spirit!" |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-11-01 10:36 |
| #5 As we say, Bingo! This is a business not the government. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-11-01 08:21 |
| #4 ^All the salty buttered popcorn is bad for my blood pressure. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-11-01 00:54 |
| #3 I'm going broke buying all this popcorn |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-11-01 00:40 |
| #2 From blue stockings to blue check to blue balls… in three generations |
| Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You 2022-11-01 00:16 |
| #1 The media will be absolutely furious. The bluecheck was not just a verified account, it was nothing less than the mark of modern aristocracy. If you had a bluecheck, that meant something. Now, any asshole with $5 can get one? Do you know how humiliating and demeaning that is? It's deliberate cruelty inflicted on journalists. |
| Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 2022-11-01 00:12 |
