Elon Musk’s Disastrous Weekend on Twitter
On Sunday morning, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the new owner of Twitter, replied to a tweet from Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s tweet was a link to an L.A. Times report detailing the troubled, conspiracy-theory-laden online past of the man who invaded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home early Friday morning and attacked her husband. Musk suggested that “there might be more to this story than meets the eye,” and shared an outrageous link from a website known to traffic in fabrications. Musk, who at the time had owned Twitter for less than 72 hours, eventually deleted the tweet after a backlash. In response, some Twitter users got angry. Catturd2, a popular MAGA account reportedly enjoyed by at least one U.S. president, suggested that Musk had “cave[d]” to the liberal mob.
That is but a glimpse into the Twitter dealings of Elon Musk, the, he has installed an advisory team that includes several Silicon Valley personalities and is mulling over how to execute an impending series of layoffs. Musk and his team have also reportedly floated various trial-balloon ideas, including asking Twitter’s power users and big accounts to for their blue-checkmark badges—a provocative move for a company that, just last week, was said to be its most devoted posters.
