Yahoo Finance says that Twitter's revenue has dropped by 84% since Elon Musk took over. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitters-revenue-collapses-84-tesla-171535190.html
84%! It's bringing less than one sixth of what it did pre-takeover!
That's one stable genius, right there.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Mike Taylor 🦕 • • •For the Russian, Saudi, and Republican billionaire investors who invested in Twitter, it was money well spent.
https://disconnect.blog/roundup-who-helped-elon-musk-buy-twitter/
They lost billions in value, but feel they are on the cusp of ending American constitutional democracy permanently.
https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oligarchs-mean-for-musk/a-70088598
Elon Musk engaged in the largest election interference campaign in history on behalf of the richest despots on the planet.
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-investors-elon-musks-x-revealed-court-filing-1942970
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-oligarchs-investments-elon-musk-194258467.html
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/musk-accused-of-7-5-billion-of-insider-trades-in-investor-suit
Full List of Investors in Elon Musk's X Revealed in Court Filing
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Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01
Once upon a time, #socialmedia was mostly stupid (it still is), and mostly harmless
Then the #ArabSpring happened
#Autocracy around the world leaped to attention
13 years later, they have figured out how to coopt it with #troll farms and #plutocracy, #corruption
And now they wield it against #democracy instead
Badger AF (he/him) FOR HARRIS
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote • • •@benroyce @Npars01 This is why it doesn't matter how much value Twitter has lost since Melon Musk bought it - it was never to be a money-maker - just a way to control dissent of wealthy oligarchs.
It's working exactly as intended.
David Mankins
in reply to Badger AF (he/him) FOR HARRIS • • •@Badger_AF @benroyce @Npars01
I kind of think it matters a little, if only for the opportunity cost.
Let’s take the Musk-public-persona perspective (setting aside the “every billionaire is a crime” mentality for a moment) — he spent about $25 of his own billions on Twitter, what if, instead, he’d spent a few billion on a Mars simulator of the Biosphere 2 sort: a sustained attempt to build an enclosed ecology of the sort that a space colony (Mars, moon, asteroid, orbital) would require?
How about a few billion to build a space station — or a space playground, or even a space mansion?
Or piled money into robotics?
All these things would have fed his ego *and* his reputation, but instead….
Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote
in reply to David Mankins • • •@lain_7 @Badger_AF @Npars01
why did #musk buy #twitter instead of use that money for robotics/ space exploration?
the answer lies in knowing the nature of the edgelord manchild:
why feed your ego with admiration from afar
when you can reach directly into the social sphere, warp it, and command fealty and worship directly
#plutocracy #autocracy #fascism
David Mankins
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote • • •Well, yes. Buying Twitter shattered the Musk-as-Tony-Stark-genius masquerade, and revealed the Musk-as-Manchild-Edgelord reality (Tony Stark was, after all, a manchild, too, at least initially).
Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote
in reply to David Mankins • • •@lain_7 @Badger_AF @Npars01
i used to admire elon #musk on his accomplishments
i was unaware of who he was as a person
then there was that soccer team trapped in a cave in thailand
#elon tried to build a submarine to rescue the boys
but his spotlight was robbed by cave divers who achieved the rescue without him
so elon had a #manchild temper tantrum and called one of the cave divers a "pedo"
at that point i became aware of what kind of person elon was
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50667553
Cave diver tells court Elon Musk tweets 'humiliated' him
BBC NewsTek say vote
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Tek say vote • • •@tek @benroyce @lain_7 @Badger_AF
Women got an even earlier insight into who Elon Musk really was, due to how he treated his wives, ex-wives, and former children.
How someone treats their spouse & kids says a lot about them. Musk doesn't believe in joint custody. Musk believes in property rights.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musks-ex-wife-mother-151551558.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle/elon-musk-tesla-robot-children-b2627910.html
https://globalnews.ca/news/10650195/grimes-elon-musk-mother-children-blocked-seeing-family/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/grimes-mom-elon-musk-stop-withholding-kids-1235961173/
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/07/elon-musk-kids-grimes/
https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/10/12/a-robot-to-babysit-your-kids-elon-musk-sees-advanced-future-with-human-like-machines/
Elon Musk and Grimes’ legal battle over their three children shows no sign of ending soon
Emily Maskell (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)Tek say vote
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01
#X #TwitterTakeover #TwitterDemolition
#Elections2024
#ElectionInterference
Exactly. #Elmo is carrying out "A controlled demolition" of #X (formerly #Twitter.)
I (and others) have been saying this since early 2023.
However, many saw (and still see) it as a "conspiracy theory". Alas, it clearly isn't, Nicole.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck--here is the reason why, and it's not pretty:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110079043525873237
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MastodonNicole Parsons
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •@HistoPol
The best predictor of future behavior, is past behavior.
Musk fired the staff that made Twitter an effective social media platform.
Why would anyone shoot their own horse as they rode it?
Musk was paid by his investors to torch Twitter to thwart its use by democracies.
Musk intends America to have the same fate as Twitter.
Torched to the ground to benefit his patrons & investors.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/16/us-election-2024-donald-trump-kamala-harris-elon-musk-democrats-republicans
Elon Musk’s $75m puts him among largest Republican donors – US politics live
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HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
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You're right, Nicole.
I think, however, there still is a hidden equally important agenda regarding the #TwitterDemolition, which most still fail to see:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111192410060940874
I can't prove it yet, OFC, but time will tell. #Bluesky inheriting most of the remaining #X users would just make so much sense.
Apart from the reasons named, #Elmo is still working towards the #EverythingApp, inspired by the #Chinese #WeeChat.
And if #China is...
@mike
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in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
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...the role model, well nothing can beat the #Chinese #surveillance state.
It's all in the open, #Twitter's programming and infrastructure is way to much legacy and trying to move masses of people from one app to another is all but impossible due to the network lock-in effect, as Cory @pluralistic has been explaining.
A mature #Bluesky product and a quickly collapsing #X infrastructure...
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#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
(IIII/III)
...might just remedy that. All pieces of the puzzle would fall into place.
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in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
(1/n)
Via #JacobSilverman
"...it’s important to know who the volatile owner of a major platform for public debate, political discourse, and government surveillance and information operations is working with — who he [#ElonMusk] owes, who he listens to, and who might influence what happens on X."
"*We Got a Judge to Unseal a List of X's Shareholders*"
While the list is quite long, it is interesting to highlight some...
https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/we-got-a-judge-to-unseal-a-list-of?ref=disconnect.blog
Cc @Npars01 @mike
We Got a Judge to Unseal a List of X's Shareholders
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Unsurprisingly, Fidelity is a major institutional investor in the New York Times as well as Twitter.
It explains a lot about the New York Times negligent journalism of the GOP.
https://fintel.io/so/us/nyt
Fidelity's DAF's fund hate speech.
https://newrepublic.com/article/172927/fidelity-schwab-vanguard-charitable-donor-advised-funds-hate-groups
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/12/13/bradley-funneled-86-million-to-right-wing-litigation-policy-media-youth-groups-and-higher-education-in-2022/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/donor-advised-funds-daf-us-charity-law-loophole-bankroll-hate/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fidelity-401k-provider-criticized-for-funding-hate-groups/
Bradley Funneled $86 Million to Right-Wing Litigation, Policy, Media, Youth Groups, and Higher Education in 2022 - EXPOSEDbyCMD
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#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
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...of the investors [which IMO should often be called "co-conspirators,"] in particular the #Saudi crown prince, #MBS's role (see article).
"...The list #X filed with the court mentions 95 names and legal entities.
Some of them are familiar names for Musk-watchers:
#AndreessenHorowitz, 8VC, #JackDorsey, Ross Gerber, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sequoia, et al. There are 26 entries related to #Fidelity, the mutual fund colossus. There’s...
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#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
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...#LarryEllison, the #Oracle founder and one of the richest people in the world, along with #SeanCombs Capital (yup). There’s #VyCapital, the #UAE-based venture capital firm, and something called #QTetris Holdings LLC, whose directors seem to be part of the #Qatari government. #Binance, the global crypto giant which recently paid a $4.3 billion fine to the #US government for facilitating money laundering by terrorist groups...
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#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
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...and sanctioned entities, is listed an X investor. (#Binance’s CEO, #ChangpengZhao, pleaded guilty to money laundering violations and is finishing up a short stint in federal prison.)
There are two entries for Prince #AlwaleedBinTalal and another for his Kingdom Holding Company, which was the largest outside shareholder of #Twitter when it was a public company. Prince #Alwaleed briefly opposed #Musk’s takeover —...
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#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
(5/5)
...prompting some gentle sparring on #Twitter — but he soon came around. Given #Saudi Crown Prince #MohammadBinSalman’s [#MBS] years-long crackdown against dissent and powerful businessmen and political rivals — which included imprisoning and torturing hundreds of prominent #Saudis, including Prince Alwaleed, in Riyadh’s Ritz Carlton hotel — it’s likely that #MBS controls those shares..."
Do read on:
https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/we-got-a-judge-to-unseal-a-list-of?ref=disconnect.blog
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We Got a Judge to Unseal a List of X's Shareholders
Jacob Silvermanaardvark
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Unknown parent • • •#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
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...and sanctioned entities, is listed an X investor. (#Binance’s CEO, #ChangpengZhao, pleaded guilty to money laundering violations and is finishing up a short stint in federal prison.)
There are two entries for Prince #AlwaleedBinTalal and another for his Kingdom Holding Company, which was the largest outside shareholder of #Twitter when it was a public company. Prince #Alwaleed briefly opposed #Musk’s takeover —...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 • • •#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed
(5/5)
...prompting some gentle sparring on #Twitter — but he soon came around. Given #Saudi Crown Prince #MohammadBinSalman’s [#MBS] years-long crackdown against dissent and powerful businessmen and political rivals — which included imprisoning and torturing hundreds of prominent #Saudis, including Prince Alwaleed, in Riyadh’s Ritz Carlton hotel — it’s likely that #MBS controls those shares..."
Do read on:
https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/we-got-a-judge-to-unseal-a-list-of?ref=disconnect.blog
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We Got a Judge to Unseal a List of X's Shareholders
Jacob Silverman