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Elon Musk Twitter X

There's a new scandal every few days (if not multiple times a day)

Let's keep track of them here.

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by Anonymousreply 61September 5, 2024 5:06 PM

[quote] The Brazilian Supreme Court justice issued orders to comply earlier this month. Twitter closed its local offices to avoid compliance. Now the Justice is escalating by ordering the naming of a legal Rep for Twitter in Brazil or else they will suspend twitter and levy fines.

[quote] It's likely that Twitter could be suspended in the second largest democracy in the western hemisphere before the end of the week. Honestly, good for them. I'm glad countries are saying enough to Elon's bullshit and sticking it to him. Let's hope the EU is next.

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by Anonymousreply 1August 29, 2024 9:54 PM
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by Anonymousreply 2August 29, 2024 9:55 PM
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by Anonymousreply 3August 29, 2024 9:56 PM

So the government gets to determine what constitutes fake news?

by Anonymousreply 4August 29, 2024 9:57 PM

Fuckin prick.

Him, dump, dump's minions are all from the same cesspool in hell

by Anonymousreply 5August 29, 2024 10:04 PM
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by Anonymousreply 6August 29, 2024 10:04 PM

Why is it always the wrong billionaires that die at sea?

by Anonymousreply 7August 29, 2024 10:09 PM

Because they are generally minding their own business and enjoying themselves instead of trying to coordinate a coup with fascists or force everyone to their warped way of thinking.

by Anonymousreply 8August 30, 2024 1:30 AM

Love the smell of burning lithium in the morning.

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by Anonymousreply 9August 30, 2024 1:35 AM

He's trying to cover up the Trump Arlington story by labeling links to the NPR story as "unsafe"

by Anonymousreply 10August 30, 2024 1:38 AM

This is what the US should have done as well.

by Anonymousreply 11August 30, 2024 2:14 AM

Elon's trashing voting by mail...even though he has voted by mail

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by Anonymousreply 12August 30, 2024 6:06 PM

Me too neither umph!

by Anonymousreply 13August 30, 2024 7:23 PM

It's great that he posts his pearls of wisdom every time neurons in his brain start firing, probably prompted by new drugs he's taken. Is he still copped up with Grimes, getting high?

by Anonymousreply 14August 30, 2024 7:29 PM

Send the prick back to South Africa if he doesn't like the way we do things here.

by Anonymousreply 15August 30, 2024 7:45 PM

[quote] Brazil blocked the social network X on Friday after its owner, Elon Musk, refused to comply with a Brazilian judge’s orders to suspend certain accounts, the biggest test yet of the billionaire’s efforts to transform the site into a digital town square where just about anything goes.

[quote] Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, ordered internet providers to block access to X across the nation of 200 million because the company lacked a necessary legal representative in Brazil.

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[quote] In an unusual move, Justice Moraes also froze the finances of another Musk business in Brazil, SpaceX's Starlink satellite-internet service, to try to collect fines he has levied against X. Starlink — which has recently exploded in popularity in Brazil, with more than 250,000 customers — said that it planned to fight the order and would make its service free in Brazil if necessary.

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by Anonymousreply 16August 30, 2024 8:47 PM
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by Anonymousreply 17August 30, 2024 8:55 PM

[quote] So the government gets to determine what constitutes fake news?

And therein lies the problem. Americans don’t get that the rest of the world doesn’t believe nor guarantee free speech.

by Anonymousreply 18August 30, 2024 9:13 PM

But we won't get any more of the funny twitter Portuguese translations anymore.

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by Anonymousreply 19August 30, 2024 9:26 PM

I think he should bend to the Brazil judge's will. I think that will set a marvelous precedent.

by Anonymousreply 20August 30, 2024 9:37 PM

I'm surprised the EU hasn't him with something similar. Their anti-hate speech laws are very strict. Fingers crossed.

by Anonymousreply 21August 30, 2024 9:46 PM

Mail voting for me, but not for thee.

Go back to apartheid South Africa you white supremacist asshole, and stop meddling in US affairs.

by Anonymousreply 22August 31, 2024 1:36 AM

r21 An EU Commission investigation into Twitter has been ongoing since December, but they released their preliminary findings last month that Twitter is in breach of the DSA. Should be wrapped up this year.

[quote]If the Commission's preliminary views were to be ultimately confirmed, the Commission would adopt a non-compliance decision finding that X is in breach of Articles 25, 39 and 40(12) of the DSA. Such a decision could entail fines of up to 6% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the provider, and order the provider to take measures to address the breach. A non-compliance decision may also trigger an enhanced supervision period to ensure compliance with the measures the provider intends to take to remedy the breach. The Commission can also impose periodic penalty payments to compel a platform to comply.

[quote]The Commission has also opened formal proceedings against TikTok in February and April 2024, AliExpress in March 2024, and Meta in April and May 2024.

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by Anonymousreply 23August 31, 2024 3:30 AM

Official Eurovision team will no longer use Twitter. It has a huge young following who will now switch over to Threads for the new season next year and hopefully even stay there for good.

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by Anonymousreply 24August 31, 2024 3:43 AM

I am not understanding why you are linking to the platform

by Anonymousreply 25August 31, 2024 3:43 AM

Yeah, linking to it while shitting on it makes zero sense.

by Anonymousreply 26August 31, 2024 3:45 AM

[quote] Moraes’s ruling will reportedly set a daily fine of around $8,900 on anyone who tries to access the X app via VPN, starting next week. We doubt anyone feels the urge to tweet “come to Brazil” that badly.

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by Anonymousreply 27August 31, 2024 5:21 PM

free speech for not me!

by Anonymousreply 28August 31, 2024 6:09 PM

Elon's not really a fan of "free speech" either...he censors the word "cisgender" for crying out loud

by Anonymousreply 29August 31, 2024 6:34 PM

He also censored anything anti-Erdogan during Turkish elections. He's also censoring a number of Saudi accounts.

by Anonymousreply 30August 31, 2024 10:02 PM

[quote] O’Connor was also overseeing a recently filed antitrust lawsuit by X against a global advertising association and its member companies like Unilever, Mars and CVS Health. O’Connor then recused himself from the lawsuit. Although he didn’t provide a reason for the recusal, a recent financial disclosure showed that the judge invests in Unilever.

This is why Musk files all of his cases in Texas regardless of relevant jurisdiction

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by Anonymousreply 31August 31, 2024 11:08 PM

Because that what the talibangelical twats do, r31.

A bunch of unqualified trumptard Heritage cunts who don’t GAF about the LAW, just their twisted talibangelical bullshit.

They all should be hauled out and thrown into the sewer where they came from.

by Anonymousreply 32September 1, 2024 2:05 AM

Oh, was it that super MAGA judge with a Polish last name?

by Anonymousreply 33September 1, 2024 2:59 AM

[quote] Oh, was it that super MAGA judge with a Polish last name?

Reed O’Connor, not Matthew Kaczmarek

Sadly, there’s multiple of them.

by Anonymousreply 34September 1, 2024 3:19 AM

He rolled over fast for Turkey – a much smaller country than Brazil – because Erdogan is a right-wing authoritarian. He's bothered by Brazil's left-wing government and supreme court majority, hence this fight to the death.

It's crazy just how much his trans kid broke his brain/ego. Not helped by daily ketamine abuse, of course.

by Anonymousreply 35September 1, 2024 4:36 AM

^ are

by Anonymousreply 36September 1, 2024 4:37 AM

This would explain a lot; he's not so much concerned with free speech as he is with creating chaos to increase his profit

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[quote] Musk doesn't care about free speech but he does likely care about mining lithium deposits in Brazil so he can make himself and his cabal more wealthy, which is why he's pushing to destabilize the country to install a right-wing government that'll secure it for him at a bargain.

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by Anonymousreply 37September 1, 2024 12:45 PM

It will be interesting to see what happens to the stock price after losing the 7th most populous country in the world.

by Anonymousreply 38September 1, 2024 1:48 PM

He's now accused this judge of helping subvert the previous presidential election and is in the process of "gathering evidence". So he's 100% trying to destabilise Brazil.

I hate what a single fucker can do just because he's amassed billions of dollars. What a disgusting system we live in.

by Anonymousreply 39September 1, 2024 1:54 PM
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by Anonymousreply 40September 1, 2024 3:12 PM

He needs to have his assets frozen, his citizenship stripped and be deported back to South Africa. Period.

He is a threat to global stability and you’d think the Tesla stockholders would get pretty fucking sick and tired of his asshattery tanking their stock price and boot him.

by Anonymousreply 41September 1, 2024 4:58 PM
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by Anonymousreply 42September 1, 2024 7:38 PM

[quote] Brazil allows sealed court orders which are non-public, and before this, no information have been released about them by either parties. Good chance the Musk did violate that law too ...

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by Anonymousreply 43September 1, 2024 11:46 PM

With friends like that fuckwit, who needs enemies?

by Anonymousreply 44September 2, 2024 1:04 AM

[quote] Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X (formally known as Twitter), spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers

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[quote] @garrisonh zeroes in on Musk's obsession with an account that dresses up racist misinformation about minorities’ intelligence and physiology in charts, data, and short but direct posts.

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[quote] In 2022, just one week after Musk purchased Twitter, the Center for Countering Digital Hate —an online civil rights group— found that racial slurs against Black people had increased three times the year’s average, with homophobic and transphobic epithets also seeing a significant uptick, according to the Associated Press. More than a year later, Musk made headlines once again for tweeting racist dog whistles in a potential attempt to “woo” a recently fired Tucker Carlson.

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by Anonymousreply 45September 2, 2024 12:11 PM

r45 Proving every racist stereotype about white South Africans in the process.

by Anonymousreply 46September 2, 2024 12:16 PM

(Oddly, the WaPo article won't post here. Strange, huh?)

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by Anonymousreply 47September 2, 2024 12:40 PM

He’s getting more comfortable being an open fascist

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by Anonymousreply 48September 2, 2024 12:43 PM

He must be cumming right now after those election results in Germany.

by Anonymousreply 49September 2, 2024 12:46 PM

Maybe we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place were he able to cum, r49

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by Anonymousreply 50September 2, 2024 1:06 PM

he threatened the judge for nothing

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by Anonymousreply 51September 2, 2024 5:08 PM
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by Anonymousreply 52September 2, 2024 5:19 PM

No, he’s a fucking dweeb cosplaying as an edgelord.

by Anonymousreply 53September 2, 2024 5:58 PM

"Democrats are the party of criminals," says the man supporting a 34-time Republican felon for president.

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by Anonymousreply 54September 2, 2024 6:02 PM

[quote] “The world isn’t obliged to put up with Elon Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich.”

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by Anonymousreply 55September 4, 2024 11:36 AM

[quote] Saw my first cybertruck in a parking lot last weekend, and it's funny bc on the one hand, it is a genuinely unique design in an era of brutal over-optimized sameness, and that's kind of neat.

[quote] it absolutely looks like a 1st grader inherited an auto company, drew a picture of a truck with crayons, brought it to the first board meeting, and shouted "truck! truck!! TRUCK!!" until the engineers relented and built him the truck

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by Anonymousreply 56September 4, 2024 12:30 PM

Elon caught promoting the "Tenet Media" Russian asset scam

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by Anonymousreply 57September 4, 2024 11:58 PM
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by Anonymousreply 58September 5, 2024 2:14 AM

[quote]A record number of firms plan to cut advertising spending on X next year because of concerns that extreme content on the platform could damage their brands, dealing another blow to the financial fortunes of Elon Musk’s social media company.

[quote]A global survey by market research firm Kantar found that a net 26% of marketers plan to decrease their spending on X in 2025, the biggest recorded pullback from any major global ad platform.

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by Anonymousreply 59September 5, 2024 4:05 PM
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by Anonymousreply 60September 5, 2024 4:41 PM

Yes, Elon Musk and DJT, the two most famous spoiled and coddled nepo babies in the world, are going to ensure that we live in a meritocracy 🙄

by Anonymousreply 61September 5, 2024 5:06 PM
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