Talk:Elon Musk

HE'S FINALLY STEPPING DOWN!
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-musk-chosen-new-twitter-ceo-step-weeks/story?id=99265576
 * Sort of. He's brought in Linda Yaccarino, former head of advertising at NBCUniversal. Musk will remain executive chairman and CTO.
 * It'll be interesting to see exactly what this means. Twitter certainly has an "advertising problem" at least on the Western side, reportedly by all means a self-inflicted problem post-Musk due to the increased prominence of 4chan-like edgelord crapola (that Musk himself seems to fancy and promote for some reason). This of course leads to an unsafe environment for brands to promote anything (I mean, we all know that advertisers would run like hell away from 4Chan if they ever fancied to put themselves in that position). Thus entertainment platforms fully engaged in activity brands don't find "safe" tend to have more "leftover" advertisers, which tend to be scummy and scammy (MLM scams; "oh noes currency fears!" scams, which on the old fart networks like Fox News is gold, but on Twitter is cryptocurrency; shady dietary supplements, and the like.) These small shady companies probably don't pay well.
 * (I know American right-wingers -- well, the "I like to shitpost" 13-year-old boy right-wingers, that is -- like to frame the resulting clampdown on major social media (meaning you can't engage in such concepts as "hate speech" and "violent speech" and the like, oh noes!) as "oh noes they're violating mah free speech!". Which is bogus. The same pressures with advertiser driven social media apply to other things. THE PORN, for instance, which is why many social networks don't allow it at all. Youtube's had several "advertisers flee for being placed in something offensive" scandals, and most of the scandals weren't American political at all -- the biggest ones I recall were CSAM or child inappropriate material, eg pedophile-suggestive material and "". It's basically all about "brand safety", just think in those terms.)
 * At any rate, I don't think a new CEO with a background in advertising can solve this problem without clashing into Musk's terrible shitpost habit. He has to kick a bit of that for things to improve. BobJohnson (talk) 20:44, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
 * And they already hate her already, for being a member of the World Economic Forum, and some of them are now even turning on elon musk.

Elon musk has been Subpoenaed in a case related to his known pedophile friend.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-virgin-islands-subpoenaed-elon-musk-jeffrey-epstein-litigation-2023-05-15/ 01:31, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * 'I did not take financial advice from him' VS 'I DID take Financial advice from him but JPMorgan still sucked' in the same tweet no less! https://twitter.com/bestofdyingtwit/status/1658307166602924032 2601:281:D880:DED0:B9BC:651E:E0F0:C5A3 (talk) 03:20, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

In case you ever needed more evidence that Elon musk is an anti-semite
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1666489810838773760 here you go! A somebody. (talk) 17:25, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Block feature removal
https://twitter.com/halomancer1/status/1666596261255053314?s=46&t=D7Oq_tW5cb3uXWCzhM6h6Q

Missional? Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 13:21, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

"Cis is a slur"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1671370284102819841

Should this be mentioned? Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 12:37, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * While I'm not fan of covering Twitter drama, he owns Twitter and we cover his transphobia, so I'd say, yes. GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 13:02, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * It also fits with the hypocrisy of his self-declared "free speech absolutism", so I added it. BobJohnson (talk) 15:02, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Eh...
It's Musk season again, I think. Anyway: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65981876?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-bbcnews&utm_content=later-36011852&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

It's dumb and ridiculous, but is it worth mentioning that he and Zuckerberg are going to punch each other in the face? I mean, we have dumb stuff from Trump on Trump's page, dunno if this is missional for both this one and Zuckerberg's page (I think we have a page for Zuckerberg?). Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 18:48, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, his Mom said no. Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 12:48, 26 June 2023 (UTC)