Faiz SiddiquiDec 24, 2022

NEW: Elon Musk sent a Signal message ordering his staff to aid in the Twitter Files: "please give Bari [Weiss] full access to everything at Twitter. No limits at all.”

That triggered a frenzy inside Twitter, which was under a decade-old FTC order. IT staff refused to onboard Weiss, worried Twitter would be breaking the law.

Days later, two executives were fired.

"These guys did amazing damage,” a former employee told me of the Musk subordinates running the company.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla/

Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth

Musk went down conspiracy rabbit holes and sank Tesla's stock with his behavior. And he was confronted with a chorus of boos in the cradle of the tech industry.

The Washington Post
Show threadFaiz SiddiquiDec 24, 2022

Inside Twitter, Musk occupies a 10th-floor conference room with a staging area. There, guests wait for the Twitter CEO — sometimes for more than an hour — before being called in.

Meeting guests are instructed not to speak until Musk does.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla/

Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth

Musk went down conspiracy rabbit holes and sank Tesla's stock with his behavior. And he was confronted with a chorus of boos in the cradle of the tech industry.

The Washington Post
Show threadAnton ☮️🚂Dec 24, 2022
@faizsays It is obvious now that in order to become a billionaire these days you need to be a sociopath.
Show threadVAWeisman
@politicalpunk @faizsays Most billionaires made that money through exploitation: exploiting loopholes in laws & regulations, exploiting labor, or exploiting the environment. All for the goal of self enrichment. They then showily give .001% of that wealth to address the results of that exploitation as “charity”, thus allowing them to write it off their taxes.
Dec 24, 2022 at 7:13pmWeb
Show threadSteve PopovichDec 26, 2022
@vaweisman @politicalpunk @faizsays most? Pretty much all billionaires, and even quite a few lower level capitalists. Capitalism, at its root, is exploitation to extract value from other people's labor for the capitalist class.