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Musk Releasing Files on How Twitter Suppressed Free Speech

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Monday that he will soon be releasing files on how the social media platform has engaged in suppressing free speech.

“The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself,” Musk tweeted. “The public deserves to know what really happened.”

Musk responded to a user earlier this month who tweeted, “Raise your hand if you think @ElonMusk should make public all internal discussions about the decision to censor the @NYPost’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 Election in the interest of Transparency.”

“This is necessary to restore public trust,” Musk replied. (Read more from “Musk Releasing Files on How Twitter Suppressed Free Speech” HERE)

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Elon Musk Reveals His 2024 Presidential Pick

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk said he would support Ron DeSantis if the Florida Governor chooses to run for president in 2024.

“As a reminder, I was a significant supporter of the Obama-Biden presidency and (reluctantly) voted for Biden over Trump,” Musk tweeted Friday.

“But freedom of speech is the bedrock of a strong democracy and must take precedence,” he added. “My preference for the 2024 presidency is someone sensible and centrist. I had hoped that would the case for the Biden administration, but have been disappointed so far.”

In response to @ProudElephantUS asking in the same thread Musk if he would support Ron DeSantis in 2024, Musk responded, “Yes.”

(Read more from “Elon Musk Reveals His 2024 Presidential Pick” HERE)

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Elon Musk Reveals How He Is Defining ‘Hate Speech’ on Twitter

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Thursday that he is defining hate speech on the platform based on the definitions that the platform used prior to Musk taking over.

Musk made the revelation in a tweet about how the company has cracked down on hate speech on the platform amid pressure from advertisers and left-wing activists.

“Hate speech impressions down by 1/3 from pre-spike levels,” Musk tweeted. “Congrats to Twitter team!”

“I have half a mind to wag my finger at the 1500 accounts that caused the spike, but I shall forebear,” Musk continued. “Reducing the max allowed tweets/day to a number below what a speed typist on meth could do was helpful.”

Musk then responded to a question from DailyWire+ host Jordan Peterson about how he defines hate speech.

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Elon Musk Discovered a Closet Full of T-Shirts at Twitter HQ. Here’s What They Said. (VIDEO)

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. . .On Tuesday night, Musk stumbled upon quite the find in a closet at Twitter HQ and, while it’s not literal skeletons, the find does help explain part of what was wrong with the ideological homogeneity of Twitter’s corporate culture that favored leftists and castigated conservatives for years.

In a video posted to Twiter, Musk can be heard explaining “Here we are at the merch, and there’s an entire closet full of #woke t-shirts” while he pans around the closet showing shelves full of t-shirts emblazoned with “#StayWoke.”

The woke Twitter tees were seemingly forgotten leftovers from the pre-Musk era at the company, and the message behind them was explained by the platform’s co-founder Jack Dorsey at a tech conference in June 2016.

When asked about the #staywoke slogan, Dorsey explained that his interpretation is “really being aware, and staying aware, and keep questioning. Being awake, and eyes wide open around what’s happening in the world,” Dorsey continued. “We saw that in Ferguson,” Dorsey said. And there it is. (Read more from “Elon Musk Discovered a Closet Full of T-Shirts at Twitter HQ. Here’s What They Said.” HERE)

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Elon Musk Fights Child Sex Abuse After Twitter’s Speech Police Refused for Years

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Elon Musk is cracking down on child sexual abuse material on Twitter, saying he is making it “Priority #1.”

Before Musk bought the tech company in October, the censorship police at Twitter permitted child porn to exist on the app for years. Instead of combating the exploitation of children, Twitter employees focused their energy on silencing people with whom they disagreed, such as deleting doctors who deviated from the government and Big Pharma narrative on Covid, removing the sitting President of the United States Donald Trump, and suppressing the explosive Hunter Biden laptop story (which boosted then-candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election).

In an interview with Tesmanian, Eliza Bleu, an advocate for human trafficking victims and a survivor of it herself, said she tried to get Twitter to address the child porn on the app for two years, but execs refused to take any meaningful steps. In February 2022, Twitter implemented a reporting feature for child sexual abuse but a few months later removed it. It is unclear why the tech giant removed the feature.

Now Musk is shaking things up at Twitter. Within three weeks of acquiring the company, Musk fired useless Twitter employees, such as “censor chief” Vijaya Gadde, and implemented real measures to counter the child sexual exploitation problem on the app. According to Bleu, Twitter has now removed several popular child porn hashtags and allows users to directly report posts for sexual abuse.

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Elon Musk Fires Even More Twitter Employees

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Elon Musk announced a new round of layoffs at Twitter on Monday, specifically focused on the platform’s sales team.

Musk fired Robin Wheeler, head of ad sales, and Maggie McLean Sunwick, the company’s vice president of partnerships, for not agreeing to terminate more employees, The Verge reported. Last Friday, Sarah Rose, the head of U.S. content partnerships left the company as Musk was weighing whether to lay off more employees, The Verge added.

Over half the company’s employees have been laid off since Musk took control of Twitter, the outlet previously reported. He focused on the product trust and safety, policy, communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, machine learning, social good, accessibility and other departments according to The Verge.

He recently sent employees an email demanding commitment to an “extremely hardcore” workplace culture, causing hundreds of employees to resign, the outlet reported. Musk tweeted a photo of himself with employees at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco at 1:28 a.m. local time Saturday, writing “just leaving Twitter HQ code review.” (Read more from “Elon Musk Fires Even More Twitter Employees” HERE)

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Is This Why Trump Hasn’t Gone Back to Twitter Yet?

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Throughout Elon Musk’s months-long ordeal to take control of Twitter and its internal workings, there was speculation that former President Donald Trump’s account could be reinstated. After Musk entered Twitter HQ and began firing the old guard of censor-happy leaders, including the c-suite executive who spearheaded the Trump ban, that talk escalated until it culminated with Elon Musk putting the decision on Trump’s Twitter fate in the hands of the platform’s users.

That poll saw a majority of the millions who chimed in on Musk’s Twitter poll vote to reinstate @realDonaldTrump, and indeed his profile is back on the site with all its years-old tweets available to peruse again.

But even before his account was reinstated last week, Trump insisted on his own platform, Truth Social, that he wasn’t going anywhere and would remain active away from Twitter.

A lot of the talk about Trump’s potential return to Twitter, however, has glossed over some of the legalese that was included when the 45th president’s Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) merged with Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC). TMTG, as an SEC filing concerning the merger explains, has a “royalty-free license agreement with President Trump and DTTM Operations, LLC, an entity that licenses President Trump’s name and regulates his personal media assets.”

That agreement gives TMTG “a royalty-free license to use ‘Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.’ as our name and certain specified domain names. In addition, TMTG has a royalty-free license to use the name and likeness of President Trump, subject to certain limitations.” (Read more from “Is This Why Trump Hasn’t Gone Back to Twitter Yet?” HERE)

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Donald Trump Says He Has ‘No Reason’ to Return to Twitter After Being Reinstated

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By New York Post. Now that Twitter would have him as a member, Donald Trump doesn’t want to join.

The former president and perpetual candidate said Saturday he had “no reason” to return to the social media platform, after new owner Elon Musk said he could be reinstated following the results of a user poll.

Just over half of the 15 million Twitter users — 51.8% — that participated in Musk’s Friday survey voted to allow the Republican back onto what used to be his favorite platform. . .

The Republican, who dealt with the ban by starting his own social media site Truth Social, shrugged at the news, and had not posted to his 72.4 million followers on his @realDonaldTrump account since it reemerged.

“I don’t see any reason for it,” the former president said via video Saturday when asked about a potential return at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting. (Read more from “Donald Trump Says He Has ‘No Reason’ to Return to Twitter After Being Reinstated” HERE)

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Musk restores Donald Trump’s account to Twitter

By Revolver. Last night Elon Musk polled his followers as to whether he should re-instate Donald Trump’s banned Twitter account, and the results are in:

The people have spoken, and Donald Trump’s account is now re-instated

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Elon Musk Reinstates Three Big Twitter Accounts

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In a thread posted Friday afternoon, Elon Musk shared more about his plans for Twitter’s philosophy surrounding expression on the platform and announced a few accounts that had been reinstated.

Explaining Twitter’s new policy as “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,” Musk stated that posts deemed “negative/hate tweets” would be “max deboosted & demonetized” and only visible to those who “specifically seek it out.”

Musk did not share who would make such decisions or how tweets would be deemed negative or hateful, details that will hopefully be forthcoming as one of the old Twitter’s biggest issues was selectively enforced content standards that seemed to be based on the whims of liberal mobs and the feeble sensitivities of the tech company’s moderation team.

Musk did clarify that the new Twitter policy regarding “deboosted” tweets found to be negative or hateful would only apply to individual posts, and not to accounts posting such content.

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Elon Musk Mocks Senate Democrats for Calling for FTC to Investigate Twitter

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk took a shot at Senate Democrats on Friday after several members penned a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking they investigate any potential consent decree or consumer protection laws violated by the social media giant.

Musk mocked the senators for calling for the probe while remaining mum on the historic implosion of the crypto currency exchange company FTX, which has declared bankruptcy after losing billions of dollars.

He made his case by tweeting a meme showing two Rhinoceroses mating behind a wildlife photographer who’s paying no mind to the scene.

[Warning: Tweet contains explicit content.]

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