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2022-10-28 -Great Cultural Revolution
Elon Musk fires Twitter's top brass after closing $44 billion deal: reports
Makin’ his lists,
and checking them twice,
already knows who’s naughty and nice
— Elon Claus is coming to town.
[Fox News] Tesla CEO Elon Musk has fired several top Twitter executives after officially taking control of the company Thursday evening.

A source with knowledge of the matter told FOX Business that Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety were fired. Musk had accused the three of misleading him and investors over the number of fake accounts on the platform.
Consequences. May God have mercy on their souls, because clearly Mr. Musk won’t.
Agrawal, Segal, and Gadde were shuttled from the building after being fired, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.
Walked out the door, with their office stuff packed up and sent after them.
Musk previously said he had plans to cut Twitter's staffing from about 7,500 to around 2,000 employees, a nearly 75% decrease.

Twitter did not respond to FOX Business' request for comment.

Musk strolled into the company's San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday carrying a porcelain sink, changed his Twitter profile to "Chief Twit," and tweeted "Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!"

Earlier Thursday, Musk said he was buying the platform to help humanity and that he didn't want it to become a "free-for-all hellscape."

"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 wrote.

He continued: "There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right and far left-wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society."
Delicious update from Breitbart courtesy of Cletle Shinese1880 added at 1:10 p.m. ET:
Elon Musk Locks Out Twitter Engineers, Has Tesla Staff Review Code

Following his takeover of Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly had Tesla engineers review Twitter’s software code and prevented Twitter engineers from making further changes.

Musk also reportedly had Tesla engineers enter the offices to review Twitter’s code and meet with product leaders at the company. Sources stated that the Tesla engineers were there to review the code and assess and explain to Musk the changes that they believe the company needs to make to be in line with his vision.

Twitter engineers were reportedly promptly locked out from making changes to the platform’s current codebase in an effort to ensure that nothing about the product changes before Musk’s acquisition deal is fully confirmed.

Sources say Musk plans to assume the role of CEO at Twitter but may eventually exit the role and appoint a new executive to the position. Sources also claim that Musk plans to remove Twitter’s permanent blacklisting of users as he does not believe in lifelong bans.

This would mean users that have previously been removed from the platform, such as former President Donald Trump, should be able to return to the site once again. It remains to be seen if formerly blacklisted users choose to return, and what other policies Musk plans to introduce.

The company’s general counsel, Sean Edgett, was also let ago according to sources.
Posted by Frank G 2022-10-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11145 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 
Posted by Thromoger Shease8409 2022-10-28 01:12||   2022-10-28 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 "Freebird! Play Freebird!"
Posted by Frank G 2022-10-28 06:59||   2022-10-28 06:59|| Front Page Top

#3 digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence," Musk wrote.

Ha ha! All the money in the world won't build you a Rantburg!
Posted by Dron66046 2022-10-28 07:42||   2022-10-28 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Actually, Musk could do no better than apply something similar to Rantburg's spamcopping protocol. I envision something like a snappy graphic accompanied by a wet fart sound to cover up egregious tweets. That's all some "blue checks" would everget.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-28 08:03||   2022-10-28 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Ha ha! All the money in the world won't build you a Rantburg!

Amen
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-28 08:14||   2022-10-28 08:14|| Front Page Top

#6 

While I don't always agree with Musk's dealings.

This is a major shakeup in the Social Media industry. It promises to have the others adjusting / toning down their bias political and social formats in order to retain user keyboard time numbers.

META/FB already has had a Bear market trading on Oct. 27th dropping from 129.4 to 98.3 losing 24.+% in just 1 day.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-10-28 08:33||   2022-10-28 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Leftists don't understand markets, beyond hating that they work. The invisible hand is in the process of biotchslapping the woke corporate world.

It's a big hand and moves slowly, but it strikes with great force...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-28 08:42||   2022-10-28 08:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Guy Who Decided To Ban The Babylon Bee Wondering If He Might Be In Hot Water
Posted by Frank G 2022-10-28 10:59||   2022-10-28 10:59|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^^ that guy needs to be thrown out that window for the sole purpose of him wearing a man bun.
Posted by Chris 2022-10-28 11:46||   2022-10-28 11:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Bless you all for being such a large part of what makes Rantburg so wonderful. If Mr. Musk manages to drag Twitter even a quarter so far in this direction, he’ll have done the world a vast service.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-28 13:05||   2022-10-28 13:05|| Front Page Top

#11 The entire thing isn't about a sea change, but a matter of degrees.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-28 13:10||   2022-10-28 13:10|| Front Page Top

#12 "It's not a man bun; it's a saddle horn."
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-10-28 14:08||   2022-10-28 14:08|| Front Page Top

#13 
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-28 14:22||   2022-10-28 14:22|| Front Page Top

#14 Twitter Inc
NYSE: TWTR
53.70
USD▲ +3.84 (+7.68%) past week
Posted by Sloluse Slutle9788 2022-10-28 14:52||   2022-10-28 14:52|| Front Page Top

#15 Rantingly.com Retweeted
elonmusk
Musk@elonmusk·10h1585841080431321088
the bird is freed
Posted by Sloluse Slutle9788 2022-10-28 17:11||   2022-10-28 17:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Musk's big plan for Twitter is to steal PayPal's lunch with a crypto twist.

Who's betting against that?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-28 17:27||   2022-10-28 17:27|| Front Page Top

#17 You are all condemned men. We keep you alive to serve this ship company. So row code well and live.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-10-28 18:15||   2022-10-28 18:15|| Front Page Top

#18 Fascinating the things people are posting to test what was once censored.

I had no idea.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-10-28 18:36||   2022-10-28 18:36|| Front Page Top

#19 The left's worst fear is that the truths they don't want heard will be spread far and wide.

Let it be so.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-28 18:38||   2022-10-28 18:38|| Front Page Top

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