If Jack Dorsey & Elon Musk (who are friends) merely wanted to run a MAGA site full of fascists, they could have just bought Parler & saved themselves approx 43.999 billion dollars.
What they wanted was to cripple the sad remnants of investigative journalism, and the political left, which successfully used Twitter for political organizing, activism & messaging throughout the Trump regime.
Why would anyone who cares about either of these things go to Jack's #Bluesky project.
Amid rumors he was being forced out as Twitter CEO (for the 2nd time), Dorsey reached out to Musk, & together they planned his takeover, which Dorsey backed to the tune of $1 billion in shares. Jack said he planned this exit starting in 2020, which is also when he started publicly making friends with Musk.
He is one of the biggest owners of Twitter.
As Dave Troy noted in Oct 2022: They're collaborators, not competitors.
Attached: 4 images @[email protected] June 11, 2022: Jack: "Twitter Inc could also use [Bluesky] as foundation." "According to the filing, Dorsey and Musk “may be deemed to have formed a group” for the purposes of part of the filing, a designation that indicates the pair were working together on the buyout." Oct. 18, 2022: Q: You've talked about a protocol for Twitter...is this along those lines? jack @jack: yes https://www.ft.com/content/f65414c4-f3e4-4bff-9af0-4960f922ce1d
It is frustrating.
But it’s not coming out in mainstream media. I’ve been asking questions that I *don’t* see journalists addressing.
Maybe Dave would be interested in pursuing some of the corporate ownership/legal questions and the nitty gritty circumstances behind how Bluesky was funded by Twitter shareholders but then incorporated into a private company owned by Twitter’s CEO.
Erin Conroy
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