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> In the seven months since Musk bought the company he singlehandedly fired nearly every employee, accidentally locked the remainder out of the headquarters, tu
by citizenkeen 3y ago
> In the seven months since Musk bought the company he singlehandedly fired nearly every employee, accidentally locked the remainder out of the headquarters, turned blue-check validation into a living nightmare for international brands, un-banned some of the most notorious and repugnant users from white nationalists to bigots and racists, mis-branded news outlets as state-sponsored, threatened to open a news agency to impersonation on his platform, cancelled most of the API, and tried to extort the very brands his platform depended on in a cash-for-validation scheme that backfired spectacularly.
Which one of those claims wasn't real?
- concordDance 3y ago"Singlehandedly fired nearly every employee" <- false for normal uses of "nearly every", going from 8000 to 1500 but a ton will be voluntary leavers "turned blue-check validation into a living nightmare for international brands" <- brands now have yellow checks "mis-branded news outlets as state-sponsored" <- all the ones with that label that I'm aware of have state funding
- stainablesteel 3y agowhat isn't real is the disaster you're trying to paint, its the framing elon's a great guy who does amazing work, and twitter is booming, making more money than ever even