Just days into Elon Musk’s Twitter reign and things are already heating up on the “hellscape” as Jimmy Kimmel called Musk a “fully-formed piece of shit” after the Chief Twit pushed a conspiracy theory about the assault on Paul Pelosi. Soon after the incident at Nancy Pelosi’s home, “The Republican …
Read More »Welcome to the 'Hellscape': Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter, Fires Top Executives
Elon Musk took the reins of Twitter on Thursday as he closed his $44 billion deal to take control of the mega social media company, the Washington Post reports. His first topic on the agenda was to fire several Twitter executives, according to three people who spoke with the Post …
Read More »Elon Musk Won't Reinstate Trump, or Any Other Banned Twitter Accounts, Until After Forming 'Content Moderation Council'
Not long after Elon Musk announced he was buying Twitter (and before he tried to back out of it), some of the platform’s famously banned figures, like controversial congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and white nationalist Nick Fuentes, started daydreaming of a possible return to the platform. Musk hadn’t explicitly said …
Read More »Elon Musk Promises Twitter Won't Become a 'Free-for-All Hellscape' After He Takes Control
As Elon Musk’s Twitter deal comes to a close, the self-anointed “Chief Twit” posted an open letter to advertisers promising that the social media platform won’t become a “free-for-all hellscape” once he officially takes the reins. “The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of …
Read More »Elon Musk's Weird Bit About Finally Buying Twitter Involved a Sink
Elon Musk, following his failed effort to back out of, or ostensibly get a better price on, his deal to buy Twitter unofficially commenced his reign by… entering Twitter headquarters with a sink? The bit was, we guess, tied to the accompanying caption, “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink …
Read More »Elon Musk Can't Stop Peddling Putin Propaganda
Elon Musk has taken some time off from his protracted legal battle with Twitter to try to end the war in Ukraine. The world’s richest man earlier this month drew intense scrutiny for advocating a peace agreement that involves recognizing Crimea as part of Russia. He pushed Vladimir Putin‘s claim …
Read More »Potential Funders of Elon Musk's Twitter Buy Are Walking Away: Report
Elon Musk‘s will-he-or-won’t he deal to buy Twitter, going forward again as of yesterday, is pretty big. We’re talking a $44 billion price tag. And even the richest man in the world apparently needs help footing that bill. While he’s sold about $32 billion worth of stock in his car …
Read More »Elon Musk Wants to Buy Twitter — But Claims the Tech Company Won't Let Him
Now that Elon Musk is back on board with buying Twitter at his original bid price (that is, after he tried to back out of the agreement, triggering a lawsuit), he wants the social media company to drop all litigation to close the deal. But according to a filing with …
Read More »Musk's Texts Reveal Inside Look at Twitter Deal's Collapse
A massive trove of Elon Musk’s texts made available to the public give a glimpse into Musk’s mindset during his bid to acquire Twitter, and the subsequent unraveling of the deal that has resulted in Twitter taking the Tesla billionaire to court in order to force his proposed $44 billion …
Read More »'How Many Women Were Abused to Make That Tesla?'
C orporate culture comes from the top in America. At least that’s the platonic ideal. How a company sets its global image, how it treats its employees, what it values — that all starts in the so-called C-suite. In some companies, that ethos can be found in a single man …
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