Elon Musk proposed a new name for Donald Trump’s Truth Social app, accusing Twitter, which had just agreed to buy it for $ 44 billion, of censorship. The Tesla boss, whose acquisition of the San Francisco-based platform was announced earlier this week, took to Twitter to compare it to the former president’s own social networking company. “Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censors freedom of speech,” Musk wrote on Twitter. “It should be called a trumpet!” Musk will pay $ 54.20 in cash per share for the San Francisco-based company, which will now go private after days of intense negotiations between the businessman and the platform’s board. The board announced it had reached an agreement with Musk on Monday and represented a premium of 38 per cent of Twitter’s closing price on April 1, the day before the richest man in the world made his move to the company by announcing his stake. nine percent. . Musk is likely to make some major changes to the social networking platform, having made several hints in recent months about his intentions. It comes after Musk’s friend Dorsey resigned as CEO and Parag Agrawal took over.
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Twitter says massive account deactivations since Musk’s takeover were ‘organic’
ICYMI: Following the announcement that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would take over Twitter, several high-profile accounts, including former President Barack Obama and singers Katy Perry and Taylor Swift, have dropped by hundreds to hundreds. The social media company has now confirmed that these account closures were largely “organic” and not due to the automated deactivation of bots and fake accounts. “While we continue to take action against accounts that violate our spam policy, which may affect the number of followers, these fluctuations appear to be largely the result of increased new account creation and deactivation,” Twitter said in a statement. statement. Graeme Massie28 April 2022 04:58 1651115151
The entire acquisition of Elon Musk on Twitter
ICYMI: The full submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission contains more than 46,000 words – the length of a short novel – but there are some interesting facts to read. Among these is a clause that Twitter should stop actively looking for a new or alternative buyer, but if someone approaches with a better offer, then it can be considered. If Twitter terminates the deal with Elon Musk, it will have to pay him $ 1 billion. Specifically, if “Twitter terminates the Merger Agreement to allow Twitter to enter into a final agreement for a competitive takeover bid that constitutes a Superior Offer”. The full deposit can be found on the SEC website here. Graeme Massie28 April 2022 04:05 1651111423
Does the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk prevent you from using it?
ICYMI: As hundreds of thousands of people seem to be leaving Twitter after the news that Elon Musk bought it, we’re conducting a reader poll to see how the acquisition changed users’ minds. We will have the results for you as soon as we have them. () Graeme Massie28 April 2022 03:03 1651107951
Elon Musk calls for Twitter to be “politically neutral”
ICYMI: The Tesla boss, who had a $ 44 billion bid for the social networking platform that was accepted earlier this week, expressed his last thought about its political position in a tweet. “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which means essentially upsetting the far right and the far left alike,” he wrote on Wednesday. Graeme Massie28 April 2022 02:05 1651105186
Elon Musk proves to be an independent reader
The Tesla titan has endorsed an Indepndent story about Jim Carrey, responding to allegations that he is one of the “many different people” playing Joe Biden. Mr. Musk took to Twitter and responded to the story with tears of joy and falling emoji. Graeme Massie28 April 2022 01:19 1651104634
The women’s group responds that Musk is chasing Twitter’s top lawyer
The UltraViolet women’s group issued a statement following the Elon Musk attack on Twitter’s top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde: “Women of color are already experiencing disproportionately high levels of vitriol, harassment and intimidation on social media – and Elon Musk will make it worse.” Ms Gad faced a wave of cyber-harassment after Musk criticized Twitter, for which he was moderate, for temporarily suspending his New York Post account over Hunter Biden’s stolen laptop cover. “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization to publish a true story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. Musk called on Twitter to adopt a freedom of speech policy, which led critics to suggest that banned right-wing figures such as Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Green could return to the platform. Graeme Massie28 April 2022 01:10 1651104231
Why has Elon Musk – the supposed champion of free speech – blocked me on Twitter?
ICYMI: It’s not just journalists. Musk has also blocked Public Citizen, a Washington-based nonprofit monitoring group that says it has “resisted corporate power and held the government accountable for 50 years.” Andrew Buncombe has the details. Graeme Massie28 April 2022 01:03 1651100945
Musk insists right-wingers will be unhappy with his Twitter as well as left-wing
The Tesla boss took to Twitter to expand on a more recent tweet in which he insisted that the social networking platform should be “politically neutral”. “The attacks are coming dense and fast, mainly from the left, which is not surprising, but I must be clear that the right will probably be a little unhappy. “My goal is to maximize the area under the curve of total human happiness, which means ~ 80% of people in the middle,” he wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. Graeme Massie28 April 2022 00:09 1651096589
Elon Musk claims to be a target of the Washington Post owned by Bezos
ICYMI: Mr. Musk made the claim on Twitter at Wednesay. “The Washington Post is relentlessly targeting me! Their insults could be of higher quality, but some are not bad. “I gave them 3 stars on Yelp,” he wrote on Twitter. Jeff Bezos, who owns the newspaper, lost the title of richest man in the world to Musk, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Graeme Massie27 April 2022 22:56 1651089703
Massive Twitter shutdowns after Musk’s takeover are ‘organic’
ICYMI: Following the announcement of the acquisition of Elon Musk on Twitter, thousands of accounts appeared to appear on the platform. The number of followers of some high profile users, including Katy Perry and Taylor Swift, has dropped by the thousands. Even the most popular Twitter account, that of former US President Barack Obama, saw the number of their followers skyrocket. It was speculated that it was either a crackdown on Twitter or the result of hundreds of thousands of people leaving the platform in protest of the takeover. Now Twitter says that the fluctuations in the following for these large accounts come mainly from “organic” closures. “While we continue to take action against accounts that violate our junk content policy that may affect the number of followers, these fluctuations appear to be largely due to increased new account creation and deactivation,” Twitter said in a statement. , adding that it is looking at “recent fluctuations in the number of followers”. (The number of Katy Perry’s followers on Twitter decreased by 200,000 after the acquisition of Elon Musk) You can read more about it here. Graeme Massie27 April 2022 21:01
