"the FTC also asked the company to “identify all journalists” granted access to company records"

"The agency asked Twitter to describe the “nature of access granted each person” and how allowing that access “is consistent with your privacy and information security obligations under the Order.” It asked if Twitter conducted background checks on the journalists, and whether the journalists could access Twitter users’ personal messages."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-investigation-ftc-musk-documents-db6b179e

TrumpMusk: "RIGGED INVESTIGATION"

"UNCONSTITUTIONAL WITCH HUNT"

"PHONY RINO"

jesus christ his tweets are indistinguishable from trump now, just more boring

*musk looks out his window and sees a growing crowd of drooling disability litigation lawyers like a walking dead scene*

Disability stuff isn't anything you want to fuck with if you make it very obvious you fired someone with money for disability reasons. And Musk was dumb enough to comment exactly on this on twitter and is preserved forever.

Told by who exactly? The voices in his head?

"Why didn't anyone tell me the dumb shit I was making up to attack my posting enemies wasn't true?!"

Also "upon learning I have committed many crimes and he has done nothing wrong I would like to say it was all just a silly misunderstanding"

Holy shit.

I can’t believe any of this is real. I’m super, super glad for Iceland dude because honestly I think there’s a good chance Elon found a way to fuck him/wait him out and dwindle his finances.

But like just holy shit on the level of advertising your gross incompetence as an executive of any kind for the entire world to see. It’s Elon’s bi-polar coaster.

What a just insane, unhinged blowout lol.

I like how the best, pro musk spin he could put on it is that the man he committed open libel against is "considering" staying at twitter. That choice of wording stuck out to me.

That dude must of had a hell of a contract, huh?

I get that he's a drugged-out dolt who thought it was "le epic" to pull this sort of shit, but even short-term it makes zero sense and will lead to organizational collapse

https://inews.co.uk/news/pressure-cooker-elon-musk-twitter-2196309

"One former worker receives chasing messages from American Express, which provided their Twitter corporate credit card, for unpaid debt totalling thousands of dollars, through the credit card provider’s phone app.

The worker, like many, has raised it with remaining Twitter staff, who are unable to approve the outstanding amount for payment because it requires the approval of the former employee’s manager.

That person also no longer works for Twitter"

Lmao Taibbi sold his credibility for access to something nobody gives a solitary fuck about

Also lol at the absolute squirming, couldn’t have gone worse for taibbi and Gym Jordan. Amateur clowns all around

https://nitter.net/atrupar/status/1633863937811685377

https://nitter.net/atrupar/status/1633860638052163585

"journalist"

Taibbi has never questioned the idea that he may be receiving cherrypicked info from Musk and Twitter lol

https://nitter.net/atrupar/status/1633885759408095232

https://nitter.net/matthewstoller/status/1633881037833895964

If nothing else, the sheer level of right-wing American stooges that Putin has cultivated is astonishing

https://nitter.net/TimHannan/status/1633879425766031361

it’s Musk, so the next tier will be $69,000

🙄

"It’s not like science is going to be held hostage by a guy that played himself into burning $44 billion on a website that makes no money, just so he could force all its users to read his shitposts."

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-nearly-everyone/

Strong “worst person you know makes excellent point” vibes.

Musk for a while has had extreme deference towards China, to the point of even suggesting Taiwan should Hong Kong themselves and become a special administrative zone.

Trump’s assessment of Musk being a bootlicker for anyone who can give him handouts is still accurate.

https://nitter.net/RonFilipkowski/status/1634586282713141248

Murderous Mexican Drug Cartels Are Thriving On Elon Musk’s Twitter

"Prominent members of Mexican drug cartels are using Twitter to recruit new members, send warnings to rival gangs, post gory images and videos, and glorify the narco lifestyle. Some of these accounts were banned by Twitter’s safety team between 2012 and 2015, but they have been reinstated since Elon Musk bought the company last year."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/mexican-drug-cartels-twitter-elon-musk-report

"Just wait until he starts to do the baby fren talk, that's when Twitter is through the Black Hole looking glass, people."

goddamn that was prophetic posting

reminder that "fren" was originally one of the baby talk words people posting as their pets would use on instagram/reddit/Facebook/etc (the "heckin pupper does a frighten" kind of thing) then the nazis got the grand idea of using it all over their memes about how "all the non-frens run Hollywood"

i mean. yes

he believes the same thing so it shouldn’t be a surprise

Weird, first the q-anon shaman and now this asshole

Weird, wonder what Elon’s views are still

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1360816/download