Is he in the process of buying/controlling Twitter? He’s recently bought a chunk of shares making him the largest individual shareholder but is still a fair way off from turning that 9.2% into 51%. The other day he rejected the chance to have a seat on the board as that would limit his potential stake holding to 14.9%.
Most of the wacko right wing nut jobs are hoping he reinstates Donald Trump and Alex Jones on Twitter citing that they never should have been banned because of ‘free speech’ not understanding about things like terms of conditions etc.
So, if Musk buys Twitter does that lead to it being more of a sewer than it is? Or just a rich guy wanting to become richer and who will keep the status quo? And generally speaking is he a force for good or potentially the creator of Skynet?
Elon Musk
posted on 12/4/22
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by Michael Edwards FC {Proud owner of the 5 000 000th comment} (U2720)
posted 6 minutes ago
Don't all CEOs behave like that
Gates and Microsoft are synonymous
Jobs and Apple
Jack Ma and Alibaba
Branson and Virgin
Bezos and Amazon
None of them do the actual work
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Maybe it's just cause Musk constantly runs his mouth on Twitter to act smarter than he is.
Or maybe it's just my biases because I can't stand the guy
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Don't get me wrong...he has a ridiculous cult following that bigs him up like he's a modern day Nikola Tesla or something.
I mean to become one of the richest men in the world, you have to have something going for you...it's also nice when your parents illegally owned emerald mines and pumped millions into your startups
posted on 12/4/22
Some of his supporters are now calling him African American 🤔
posted on 12/4/22
comment by Robbb Lasso 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇪🇸 (U22716)
posted 16 minutes ago
Some of his supporters are now calling him African American 🤔
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It is technically correct.
posted on 12/4/22
comment by Robbb Lasso 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇪🇸 (U22716)
posted 34 minutes ago
Some of his supporters are now calling him African American 🤔
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Like your woman Rachel. Or better known as Nkechi
posted on 12/4/22
Remember when he got all salty because no one wanted his ridiculous contraption to help rescue those Thai kids stuck in the cave (because it was completely unsuitable)?
He cried and called the bloke risking his life to actually save the kids a paedo.
Yep. Elon Musk is a complete unt
posted on 12/4/22
Who gives a feck
posted on 12/4/22
comment by Ji Sung Park's Cousin (U2958)
posted 3 hours, 20 minutes ago
All of these platforms have only one bias, to make money.
If you think they are biased against your political leaning, you are in an echo chamber.
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This is true in terms of there being no premeditated political bias in the mainstream platforms. The one thing I'd add is that there can still be a structural bias that comes about from the driving profit motive. We know that the algorithms have evolved to promote content that will prolong the user's time on the platform, and we know (along with the tech developers) that the human brain gets more engaged when strong emotions are triggered. So in terms of suggested content, there is a strong tendency towards more extremist content, evoking fear and outrage (as well as kitten/puppy-related stuff). This isn't directly a right-left dynamic, but rather a polarising one at the expense of nuance/moderation.
For example, you see a gravitational pull toward more strident and extreme positions within many sub-cultures on social media. Within left-wing Twitter the hard left is overrepresented relative to the real world, and key figures will grow their following by pandering to hatred of Centrist Sell-Outs within the Labour party, rather than proposing constructive policy routes toward social justice. There's a similar dynamic within anti-Brexit Twitter: the architectural logic of social media pushes uncompromising fury to centre stage.
However, overall, I think this phenomenon does currently skew more to the right, because extremism is closer to the leading right-wing parties in most of the Western world. This is reflected in the predominance of right-wing news sources on Facebook, for example.
posted on 12/4/22
He started programming in a few programming languages like basic which indicates he was smarter than the average Joe and has some technical knowledge. He made his money with selling his company Zip2 unlike what has been said on this thread.
The thing what stands out with him contrary to a lot of tech people is making the right business decisions.
Steve Wozniak was the one who did all the hard programming work but the salesman Jobs made Apple successful.
posted on 14/4/22
Well the answer appears to be yes as hes just made an offer to buy the whole thing.
posted on 14/4/22
comment by ManUtdDaredevil (U9612)
posted 2 days, 3 hours ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 12 minutes ago
Be nice to have a Social Media platform that doesn't bias the far left to be honest. Elon advocates free speech, which should be the case with all social media platforms.
Certainly a villainous feeling growing around Elon Musk though, a brilliantly strange man.
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There are tons of right wing voices on twitter, the ones that get banned are the racists and the ones that attempt coups using twitter.
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I don't use it, but some of things I've heard people being banned/ posts removed for are pretty astonishing.