Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[imnotbitter]

She's right about housing prices in Austin.

[sputnik]

grimes is like a broken clock that way. in between all the hot takes and breeding with that greedy sociopath, she'll say one or two smart things.

[kittylady]

Here we go again... He's now threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League for $22 billion.


Elon Musk sues the Anti-Defamation League for $22 BILLION for 'trying to kill X by falsely accusing it and me of being anti-Semitic': X owner sets up huge defamation battle with group

Elon Musk claims he is going to sue the Anti-Defamation League for defamation

Musk blamed the ADL for lost advertising revenue since he purchased Twitter

The billionaire claims the ADL has accused him and 'X' of being anti-Semitic

Elon Musk is suing the Anti-Defamation League for 'roughly $22billion' for allegedly trying to destroy X by accusing him and the social media giant of being anti-Semitic.

In a series of tweets sent out Monday night, Musk, 52, said he plans to sue the ADL 'to clear our platform's name on the matter of anti-Semitism.'

'It looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League … oh the irony!' the billionaire wrote.

He added: 'In our case, they would potentially be on the hook for destroying half the value of the company, so roughly $22 billion.'

In May, it was reported that the app's value had fallen to one-third of what it was when Musk purchased it in October - from $45 billion to $15 billion in six months.

Musk's battle with the ADL began Monday morning when he called out the organization for being responsible for the company's quickly falling profits

'Since the acquisition, The @adl has been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic,' he wrote in an initial tweet.

'Our US advertising revenue is still down 60 per cent, primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @adl (that's what advertisers tell us), so they almost succeeded in killing X/Twitter,' his tweet continued.

In a separate tweet, he shared that he believes the ADL is responsible for as much as 50 percent of Twitter's fallen value - 'roughly $22 billion,' according to Musk.

Earlier in the day, Musk responded to a tweet from X News Daily sharing that X's advertising revenue in the US is down by around 60 percent.

The account shared that the advertising revenue decrease is a 'significant factor behind X's continuing issues with achieving profitability.'

Musk purportedly believes that the ADL has urged advertisers not to use X over Musk's relaxing of rules around hate speech and harassment.

Some Jewish users online have claimed to see an uptick in anti-Semitic tweets that go unpunished by Musk and anyone else at X.

In response to the accusations of rampant anti-Semitism on the platform, the Chief Twit vehemently denied letting hate speech run free on his app.

'To be super clear, I'm pro free speech, but against anti-Semitism of any kind,' he wrote in a tweet.

Even with his ongoing battle, Musk said he has no plans to ban ADL from X.

Following his barrage of tweets about the organization, a movement to '#BanTheADL' has emerged from some of Musk's most devoted followers.

The CEO has engaged with tweets that are part of the movement but clarified online that he has no intention to ban them anytime soon.

'Despite the immense harm ADL has done to X/Twitter, they still will not be banned in this platform, unless they break the law,' he shared.

It's unclear whether or not Musk and his lawyers have filed an initial complaint against the organization.

ADL officials did not immediately respond to inquiries from DailyMail.com.

Just last month, X filed a lawsuit against a nonprofit group that monitors hate speech, making similar accusations of poisoning the water for online users.

Lawyers for X claimed the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) orchestrated a 'scare campaign to drive away advertisers from the X platform.'

At the time, X officials accused CCDH of publishing reports that indicate X did not take action against hate speech on the app.

They also accused CCDH of committing 'a series of unlawful acts designed to improperly gain access' to the platform's data,' in the lawsuit.

A study published in 2022 by Montclair State University shows there was a spike in hate speech the day after Musk took over Twitter in October.

According to university officials, the data showed a 'correlation between Musk's arrival' and 'hostile content on Twitter.'

Similarly, GLAAD recently named X - then Twitter - as the 'most dangerous platform for LGBTQ people' in its Social Media Safety Index.


Daily Mail

[no1novice]

And this is why billionaires should not have control of utilities

Elon Musk ordered Starlink to be turned off during Ukraine offensive, book says
Biography alleges Musk told engineers to turn off communications network to hobble Ukraine drone attack on Russian warships


Julian Borger in Washington
Thu 7 Sept 2023 23.14 BST
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Elon Musk ordered his Starlink satellite communications network to be turned off near the Crimean coast last year to hobble a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian warships, according to a new biography.

CNN quoted an excerpt from the biography Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, which described how armed submarine drones were approaching their targets when they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly”.

The biography, due out on Tuesday, alleges Musk ordered Starlink engineers to turn off service in the area of the attack because of his concern that Vladimir Putin would respond with nuclear weapons to a Ukrainian attack on Russian-occupied Crimea. He is reported to have said that Ukraine was “going too far” in threatening to inflict a “strategic defeat” on the Kremlin.

Musk’s threats to withdraw Starlink communications at various stages of the conflict have been previously reported, but this is the first time it has been alleged he cut off Ukrainian forces in the middle of a specific operation.

The date of the would-be attack was not specified. Musk reportedly referred to it as a “mini Pearl Harbor”, although Ukrainian forces were operating within their internationally recognised territorial waters.

Musk, the CEO of the Tesla electric car company and SpaceX rocket and spacecraft manufacturer, as well as owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, initially agreed to supply Starlink hardware to Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion disrupted Ukrainian communications. But he reportedly had second thoughts after Kyiv succeeded in repelling the initial Russian assault and began to counterattack.

“How am I in this war?” Musk asked rhetorically in an interview with Isaacson. “Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”

Neither X nor SpaceX replied to requests for comment.

At the time of the submarine drone attack, according to the extract reported by CNN, Mykhailo Fedorov, one of Ukraine’s deputy prime ministers, pleaded with Musk to restore Starlink communications.

“I just want you – the person who is changing the world through technology – to know this,” Fedorov reportedly told Musk.

According to Isaacson’s account, Musk refused, saying Ukraine was “now going too far and inviting strategic defeat”.

Musk has in the past echoed Russian talking points on Twitter, suggesting that some parts of eastern Ukraine be handed to Russia to reflect “the will of the people”.

A study by the European Commission published last week found that Twitter under Musk’s ownership had played a significant role in disseminating Russian propaganda about the Ukraine war.

“Preliminary analysis suggests that the reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts has grown further in the first half of 2023, driven in particular by the dismantling of Twitter’s safety standards,” the study said.

The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/07/elon-musk-ordered-starlink-turned-off-ukraine-offensive-biography

Elon Musk ‘committed evil’ with Starlink order, says Ukrainian official

Ukrainian presidential adviser says deaths of civilians ‘the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego’
Pjotr Sauer
Fri 8 Sep 2023 13.59 BST
First published on Fri 8 Sep 2023 13.15 BST

A senior Ukrainian official has accused Elon Musk of “committing evil” after a new biography revealed details about how the business magnate ordered his Starlink satellite communications network to be turned off near the Crimean coast last year to hobble a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian warships.

In a statement on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, which Musk owns, the Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak wrote that Musk’s interference led to the deaths of civilians, calling them “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego”.
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“By not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian fleet via Starlink interference, @elonmusk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities. As a result, civilians, and children are being killed,” Podolyak wrote.

“Why do some people so desperately want to defend war criminals and their desire to commit murder? And do they now realise that they are committing evil and encouraging evil?”

Musk defended his decision, saying he did not want his SpaceX company to be “explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation”.

CNN on Thursday quoted an excerpt from the biography Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, which described how armed submarine drones were approaching a Russian fleet near the Crimean coast when they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly”.

The biography, due out on Tuesday, alleges Musk ordered Starlink engineers to turn off the service in the area of the attack because of his concern that Vladimir Putin would respond with nuclear weapons to a Ukrainian attack on Russian-occupied Crimea.

Also on Friday, Ukrainian deputy prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov told the Financial Times that Musk shared with Isaacson confidential exchanges about military access to Starlink without permission from Fedorov.

“It’s not very pretty,” Fedorov told the Financial Times.

“I’ve never shown or talked about our correspondence publicly.”

Musk, who is also the CEO of the Tesla electric car company and SpaceX rocket and spacecraft manufacturer, initially agreed to supply Starlink hardware to Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion disrupted Ukrainian communications. But he reportedly had second thoughts after Kyiv succeeded in repelling the initial Russian assault and began to counterattack.

Musk has previously been embroiled in a social media spat with Ukrainian officials including the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, over his ideas for ending Russia’s invasion.

In October last year, Musk proposed a peace deal involving re-running under UN supervision annexation referendums in Moscow-occupied Ukrainian regions, acknowledging Russian sovereignty over the Crimean peninsula and giving Ukraine a neutral status.

“Preliminary analysis suggests that the reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts has grown further in the first half of 2023, driven in particular by the dismantling of Twitter’s safety standards.

The EU has also accused Musk’s X of allowing Russian propaganda about Ukraine to spread on its website.

A study released last week by the European Commission, the governing body of the European Union, found that “the reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts has grown further in the first half of 2023.”

The study said that the increased reach of Russian propaganda online was “largely driven by Twitter, where engagement grew by 36% after CEO Elon Musk decided to lift mitigation measures on Kremlin-backed accounts”.

Musk on Friday attempted to refute the EU study, writing on his social media platform: “Where is all this pro-Russian propaganda? We don’t see it.”

[no1novice]

I'm putting this one separately as it's editorial

And then Elon Musk said there’ll be no more war – not via his satellite. Aren’t we lucky to have the world in his hands?
Marina Hyde
Marina Hyde

The tech deity reportedly shut down his Starlink system to foil a Ukrainian attack. Is he the guiding force we need right now?
Fri 8 Sep 2023 14.21 BST
Last modified on Fri 8 Sep 2023 15.18 BST

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When Elon Musk posted a personally crafted 280-character “peace plan” for the war in Ukraine last October, a Ukrainian diplomat offered a carefully considered review. It ran to a full two words: “Fuck off”. This week’s allegations that Musk shut down his Starlink system (on which the comms-shattered Ukraine relies to defend itself against Russia) right in the middle of a counteroffensive last year – apparently deliberately to neuter it – forces a new question. When he does finally make it there in his big space rocket, will even Mars be far enough for Elon Musk to fuck off to?

For now, it’s time to take another turn around the block with Phoney Stark, as Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson reveals that the edgelord magnate (and edgelord magnet) ordered his engineers to switch off the Starlink satellite communications network during a surprise attack on the Russian fleet in Crimea last year. Or to “disrupt” the attack, as CNN puts it, still clinging embarrassingly to the preferred Silicon Valley argot that surely ought to have been discredited once its boy kings started becoming more powerful than many of the world’s actual countries. I can’t help feeling that the benefit-of-the-doubt era with these guys ought to have officially ended back when Y2K fashion was just fashion. Yet until very recently, Musk was still being breathlessly judged a net good to humanity, what with his electric cars and his hyperloops and the fact he once smoked a joint on a podcast. So! Very! Cool!
Elon was endlessly covered by the media as a kind of fascinating, eccentric inventor, as opposed to someone with a vast amount of power who should be held to account accordingly. Just as it was with Mark Zuckerberg before him, by the time people realised a lot of what was happening, it was rather too late.



Anyway, back to this strategic Starlink blackout, which was apparently prefaced by Elon wailing to his biographer: “How am I in this war?” The question appears to have been rhetorical, but demands an alternative answer to the one towards which Musk was apparently gesturing (he followed up by explaining that Starlink was “so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes”). You’re in this war because you’re literally a defence contractor – just as you’re in the news this week for demonising the Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) because you’re literally a media mogul. Man up.

Instead of accepting the complexities of the consequences of his own actions, Musk seems to have simply buzzed in on the answer to that age-old question: how can a just tech god permit suffering? The Ukrainian drones were thus stopped in their tracks, while the Russian fleet remained unharmed and able to launch future attacks itself. Musk himself returned to other based-deity pursuits, such as enabling the dissemination of Moscow propaganda and Twitter-polling what should happen to Ukraine. This last gambit fell squarely in the tradition of the Treaty of Versailles, of course, which famously asked Allied users whether Germany should be punished extra-hard, and offered three options: “Hell yeah”, “Hell no”, and “I don’t care – just show me the numbers”.

It’s not that Musk doesn’t have a consistent worldview so much as he doesn’t even have consistency. Barely a week goes by without him making threats and failing to follow through. By now it should be clear that Musk isn’t going to have a cage fight with Zuckerberg. He isn’t going to sue the ADL. He probably wasn’t even really going to buy X (formerly Twitter), and only ended up going through with it because the courts forced him to. He just says any old stuff for attention or a laugh, or because he can. The key question is whether someone who just says any old stuff for attention or a laugh or because he can should have quite this much supra-democratic power.

Alas, this is not a question being asked by Elon’s fanboys, that whole heaving army of betas out there defending him minute by minute on his own platform, in the hope that he sees their posts and perhaps … what? “likes” them? Oh man. It’s too poignant. Yet the second this latest story about the Starlink shutdown broke, you couldn’t move on X for Muskovites suggesting that if Ukraine doesn’t like the deal it signed up to, it can terminate its contract and sign up to another service. Please let’s put much, much more of our future security in the hands of people who treat war and the fallout from an unsolicited invasion like a broadband contract.

Ultimately, it remains one of the more pathetic tragedies of our age that Musk is seen as a superhero analogue – but perhaps also an inevitable one, given that superheroes connote institutional failure. After all, if society and its institutions were working as they should be, we wouldn’t need them. This is certainly the mood that Musk likes to play into, forever fanning the sense that the world and its problems are too hard to manage for everyone from ordinary people to police chiefs to politicians and supranational bodies. Only recently, he was speaking tellingly of himself as Earth’s “other option” to Mark Zuckerberg. Yes, have no fear, because Elon’s here. Until – as the Ukrainians seem to have discovered at something of a crucial moment – he suddenly isn’t.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/elon-musk-satellite-war-starlink-system-ukraine

[brookie]

Fucking asshole douchebag.

[kittylady]

All all around wonderful guy (scroll to Grimes tweet at the bottom).

[lindsaywhit]

WTF???

[no1novice]

Sept 9, 2023 2:09:32 GMT kittylady said:

All all around wonderful guy (scroll to Grimes tweet at the bottom).

'Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer.

'I have never even been allowed to see a photo of these children until this moment, despite the situation utterly ripping my family apart.'

Not sure why not seeing photos of her kids half-siblings is tearing her family apart, but can totally see that Elon keeping her from her kid does.

[kittylady]

no1novice These are the twins that were born via surrogate a couple of weeks before Grimes and Musk had their daughter, also by surrogate.  It seems that he neglected to tell her that he was busy having kids with someone else at the same time as they were expecting their second child together.

[no1novice]

Sept 9, 2023 13:39:56 GMT kittylady said:

no1novice These are the twins that were born via surrogate a couple of weeks before Grimes and Musk had their daughter, also by surrogate.  It seems that he neglected to tell her that he was busy having kids with someone else at the same time as they were expecting their second child together.

Yeah I get that but why is that tearing her family apart? Or is she including Elon as her "family" even though they were on a break....?




Wait. What???

Elon Musk & Grimes Reveal Secret Third Child, Share Baby's Very Unique Name & Nickname


Surprise: Elon Musk and Grimes are proud parents to three children.

The celebrity couple made their red carpet debut at the 2018 Met Gala and welcomed their first child – a son named X Æ A-12 – in 2020. Grimes confirmed that she and Elon had a second child via surrogate – a daughter named Exa Dark Sideræl – in March 2022.

One year later, they confirmed the birth of a third child and shared their little one’s equally unique name.

The New York Times confirmed that the couple welcomed a third child named Techno Mechanicus. It does not look like we know the child’s sex or age yet.

We do know that the parents refer to their youngest as Tau.

Elon has 10 children with three different mothers. He recently provided fans with a first look at the toddler twins that he shares with Neuralink Exec Shivon Zilis. We first learned about the twins in 2022.


Elon Musk is sharing the first look at his twins, Strider and Azure born in November 2021, with Neuralink exec Shivon Zilis.

www.justjared.com/

[brookie]

So these bimbos are in it for the $$$? Because this scuzzball is an ugly bugly douchebag.

[kittylady]

Sept 9, 2023 23:02:29 GMT no1novice said:

Sept 9, 2023 13:39:56 GMT kittylady said:

no1novice These are the twins that were born via surrogate a couple of weeks before Grimes and Musk had their daughter, also by surrogate.  It seems that he neglected to tell her that he was busy having kids with someone else at the same time as they were expecting their second child together.

Yeah I get that but why is that tearing her family apart? Or is she including Elon as her "family" even though they were on a break....?




Wait. What???

Elon Musk & Grimes Reveal Secret Third Child, Share Baby's Very Unique Name & Nickname


Surprise: Elon Musk and Grimes are proud parents to three children.

The celebrity couple made their red carpet debut at the 2018 Met Gala and welcomed their first child – a son named X Æ A-12 – in 2020. Grimes confirmed that she and Elon had a second child via surrogate – a daughter named Exa Dark Sideræl – in March 2022.

One year later, they confirmed the birth of a third child and shared their little one’s equally unique name.

The New York Times confirmed that the couple welcomed a third child named Techno Mechanicus. It does not look like we know the child’s sex or age yet.

We do know that the parents refer to their youngest as Tau.

Elon has 10 children with three different mothers. He recently provided fans with a first look at the toddler twins that he shares with Neuralink Exec Shivon Zilis. We first learned about the twins in 2022.


Elon Musk is sharing the first look at his twins, Strider and Azure born in November 2021, with Neuralink exec Shivon Zilis.

www.justjared.com/

I think he was on a break more than she was. He was saying 'single', she was twatwaffling about how their relationship was "fluid". And yet she still went and had a third kid with him.




By the way, the kid is apparently yet another boy.

[no1novice]

Since it would have been another surrogate, I think that he's sperm washing.

[lindsaywhit]

^^^Isn't that the norm in any kind of IVF?