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How long before Musk weaponises this in his lawsuit against Twitter?

by Hamuko 4y ago

boffinAudio 4y ago
How long before people start conflating this story with Musk in an attempt to discredit both, you mean?
- beeboop 4y ago
  The modern equivalent of Godwin's law is mentioning either Tr*mp or El*n in any circumstance possible.
nudpiedo 4y ago
I think it is time to go a bit Meta here, bit I start to subspect that many HN posts are to influence such things, including popular replies to @pmarca etc... when one says Netflix falls because it is not a tech company, the next day at HN comes an article saying how cool and techie it is, etc. The reach of HN on the tech world is highly influential, and for sure it is weaponized in "communication wars" across actors with different interests. EDIT: that doesn't mean that the given information is necessarily false, it is just presented at the right time, to promote one view of the world. Also when Twitter hit bottom some years ago several HN submissions remind us how they declined being purchased by Facebook etc, and social network giants have a large track of understanding how such information flows and influences people.
lapcat 4y ago
October 17
michaelwilson 4y ago
It may appear that this may get Musk off the hook for buying Twitter because "Look how bad they are!" but, as I recall, Musk's problem is that his offer with without contingency - e.g. "Yah, I'll buy it, whatever". So it may just be another event which will drive Twitter's price down even further and make it a _worse_ deal for him. From Bloomberg "The buyers could only back out of the agreement in the case of a material adverse effect, a high bar that excludes issues like market volatility or industry challenges." (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-07-13/elon-musk-haunted-in-twitter-deal-by-seller-friendly-concessions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-07-13/elon-m...). I suppose one could argue that the Whistleblower's report is "material adverse affect", something I'm sure will come out in the trial.
bombcar 4y ago
https://twitter.com/deitaone/status/1562069657582018560 https://twitter.com/deitaone/status/1562069657582018560 So about a few hours. *Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone ELON MUSK’S LEGAL TEAM HAS SUBPOENAED PEITER “MUDGE” ZATKO, TWITTER’S FORMER HEAD OF SECURITY - CNN 8:30 AM · Aug 23, 2022·TweetDeck

How long before Musk weaponises this in his lawsuit against Twitter?

by Hamuko 4y ago

How long before Musk weaponises this in his lawsuit against Twitter?

boffinAudio 4y ago

How long before people start conflating this story with Musk in an attempt to discredit both, you mean?

beeboop 4y ago
The modern equivalent of Godwin's law is mentioning either Tr*mp or El*n in any circumstance possible.

nudpiedo 4y ago

I think it is time to go a bit Meta here, bit I start to subspect that many HN posts are to influence such things, including popular replies to @pmarca etc... when one says Netflix falls because it is not a tech company, the next day at HN comes an article saying how cool and techie it is, etc. The reach of HN on the tech world is highly influential, and for sure it is weaponized in "communication wars" across actors with different interests. EDIT: that doesn't mean that the given information is necessarily false, it is just presented at the right time, to promote one view of the world. Also when Twitter hit bottom some years ago several HN submissions remind us how they declined being purchased by Facebook etc, and social network giants have a large track of understanding how such information flows and influences people.

lapcat 4y ago

October 17

michaelwilson 4y ago

It may appear that this may get Musk off the hook for buying Twitter because "Look how bad they are!" but, as I recall, Musk's problem is that his offer with without contingency - e.g. "Yah, I'll buy it, whatever". So it may just be another event which will drive Twitter's price down even further and make it a _worse_ deal for him. From Bloomberg "The buyers could only back out of the agreement in the case of a material adverse effect, a high bar that excludes issues like market volatility or industry challenges." (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-07-13/elon-musk-haunted-in-twitter-deal-by-seller-friendly-concessions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-07-13/elon-m...). I suppose one could argue that the Whistleblower's report is "material adverse affect", something I'm sure will come out in the trial.

bombcar 4y ago

https://twitter.com/deitaone/status/1562069657582018560 https://twitter.com/deitaone/status/1562069657582018560 So about a few hours. *Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone ELON MUSK’S LEGAL TEAM HAS SUBPOENAED PEITER “MUDGE” ZATKO, TWITTER’S FORMER HEAD OF SECURITY - CNN 8:30 AM · Aug 23, 2022·TweetDeck