Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter, Fires All the Execs — Then Sends a Four-Word Message to America
"Elon Musk is expected to take on the Twitter CEO role. One of the first things Musk will do is reverse lifetime bans on Twitter users."
Elon Musk finally closed the deal. Twitter now belongs to him. And he has a four-word message for America.
"the bird is freed," Musk Tweeted on late Thursday.
Elon Musk is expected to take on the Twitter CEO role. One of the first things Musk will do is reverse lifetime bans on Twitter users, Bloomberg News reported.
This set off an avalanche of tweets in response:
"FREE SPEECH FEELS SO GOOD," Liz Wheeler tweeted.
"Yes — Now it’s time to Free Them All," Benny Johnson tweeted along with a list of ban users, including Donald Trump.
"Thank you, Elon!" Libs of TikTok tweeted.
The memes kept pouring in.
There is even a Spirit Halloween costume for ex-CEO Parag Agrawal.
This meme pretty well sums it all up.
On Thursday night, CNBC reported that Twitter executives began leaving the company's headquarters.
“Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and chief financial officer Ned Segal have left the company's San Francisco headquarters and will not be returning,” CNBC reported.
As reported at the Washington Post, Elon Musk took control and immediately fired Twitter's CEO, the CFO, and the head of legal policy, trust, and safety.
“As one of his first moves, he fired several top Twitter executives, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters,” the Post reported. “One of those confirmed the deal had closed.”
“CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety, were all fired, according to the people. Sean Edgett, the company’s general counsel, was also pushed out, one of the people said,” the report added.
Musk earlier provided comment to TMZ on his acquisition of the social media platform.
"Elon Musk is officially Twitter's new daddy -- at least according to Elon Musk -- who says he hopes the platform will continue to be a digital town square for years to come," TMZ reported.
Musk gave his reason for acquiring the social media platform: "There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide in our society."
"In the relentless pursuit of clicks, much of traditional media has fueled and catered to those polarized extremes, as they believe that is what brings in the money, but, in doing so, the opportunity for dialogue is lost," he added.
"That is why I bought Twitter," he continued. "I didn't do it because it would be easy. I didn't do it to make more money. I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love. And I do so with humility, recognizing that failure in pursuing this goal, despite our best efforts, is a very real possibility."
On Wednesday, Elon Musk tweeted a video of himself walking triumphantly into Twitter headquarters ahead of his $44 billion takeover.
"Meeting a lot of cool people at Twitter today!" Musk tweeted. He also changed his bio to "Chief Twit."
There have been reports that Musk plans to axe 75% of the Twitter thought police who have suppressed, censored and banned conservatives on the platform for years. But Musk has downplayed such reports by saying cryptically that he doesn't plan to cut 75% of the staff. But it could be 74.9% and it could be 80% — it is difficult to say with the tech CEO.
Musk plans to address Twitter's Woke staff on Friday.
Matt Walsh, conservative pundit and author, gave his perspective on the matter.
"Twitter employees have happily censored, deplatformed, and taken livelihoods away from people who did absolutely nothing wrong. I'm glad they're getting fired now," Walsh said. "They get no sympathy from me. You all deserve this. Every bit of it. You've had it coming. Now it's here."
Jesse Watters of Fox News also weighed in on Musk's Twitter takeover.
"Remember when Elon Musk said he wants to cut the work force by 75%, does it make sense now. And employees fired back with those open letters. Elon taking over twitter is a doomsday scenario form. Hence Musk is under two separate investigations now from SEC & FTC," Watters said.
"He bought it not to make money but to restore Free Speech to America," Tucker Carlson said. "If he actually does that, this country will change forever."
In many ways, Musk already has.
Yes, I remain so happy Musk has saved America. After all the defence of free speech by one of our deep state institutions - Musk , DARPA, The US governments and space X - makes us all safe once again. America - once again you are being played. Sad. Something about “the rockets red glare”.
>> "He bought it not to make money but to restore Free Speech to America,
If you really think that, I got this nice bridge for sale...
His taking the company private will mean he has *total* control over how it operates and who is allowed to do what on the platform. Zero shareholders or Board of Directors to answer to, going forward. A WEF Technocrat's "Dream Environment". And make no mistake, he is definitely one of those. His father was the leader of the Technocratic Movement in Canada back in the middle of the last century.
Once he's got all the dead weight 'woke' staff removed from the Twitter payroll & network security increased exponentially (thanks in part to his CIA backers, no doubt), then I can forsee him connecting Twitter up with his old stomping grounds (Paypal, who also really does intend to fine you bigly for what you say on social media, if they don't like it). After the banksters manage to kill cash & roll out the CBDC, Musk will be perfectly positioned to implement the "Social Credit Slavery Score" part of the plan using Twitter. Most likely partnering with someone like his old comrade from Paypal days, Peter Theil. Theil now runs Palantir, which is a "Panopticon" type BigData intelligence gathering & analysis platform that everyone should legit be scared of. The word Palantir is from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings - it was one of several indestructible crystal balls. For "seeing everything"...
I don't think that sink Musk was carrying through the front door of Twitter HQ was just a media stunt to send a snarky message ("Let this sink in") to the staff he's planning to fire shortly. I think it was also a message to those of the rest of us who have eyes to see....