🎧 Out now: Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part V: Cracks in the Empire. Reporting from across the Axios newsroom comes together to examine Musk's first months as Twitter's CEO and the unique challenges facing each of his companies. Listen here:
Musk tweeted at 6:44 last night with two popcorn emojis. He alerted his 119 million followers to a long thread called the Twitter files posted by CK journalist Matt Taibbi. Taibbi said that it was the first installment in a series quote based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter. Musk promised that more is coming today.
This kind of open trolling of the mainstream media seemed to many on the right as payback to what they saw as quote-unquote "liberal shadow-banning" — they felt social media algorithms had been stacked against them, de-amplifying their posts to favor liberal perspectives.
But what people are seeing as his brand, at least since he's been running Twitter, has become much more chaotic, much more partisan, much more tied to almost like a robber-baron CEO who comes in and fires three-quarters of the company and says, "You have to sleep in the office now. And the only way we will survive is if you are hardcore with me."TOM NICHOLS:That's where we're going.
In 2018, one shareholder sued Musk over his financial compensation package from Tesla. There were specific concerns that he was over-paying himself, but it opened the floodgates for other kinds of criticism. Recently, a Tesla investor filed a separate complaint, alleging that Musk has done irreparable damage to the company's reputation. Musk isfacing an additional lawsuit related to his 2018 tweet that he had secured funding to take Tesla private.
Elon later said he took some criticism for this and said that these engineers were just volunteers and they were working after hours. Like there's a lot of male engineers within the company who like echoing whatever Elon says, and they would, you know, start directly translating those tweets into like, behaviors, you know, making jokes with like any sort of women engineers that might be on their team as well as sort of like giving them an excuse to like bring out their like worst behavior.
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