It didn’t take long for the first controversies to break out. No sooner had Elon Musk bought Twitter than he was already causing a scandal because of his public criticism of social network executives. Something to tarnish their image and, it seems, play on their morale. So, Elon Musk, bad boss or misunderstood troll?
Elon Musk and Twitter, a long love story
We like (or not, it depends on the person) Elon Musk for his ambitious and visionary ideas about our future, but also and above all for his escapades on social networks. Even before buying Twitter, the billionaire was regularly noticed with sometimes completely crazy tweets, a habit he obviously hasn’t lost since the takeover.
It would indeed seem that the fiftieth is still as fond of trolls of all kinds, sometimes even going beyond the limits. This is in any case the opinion of many Internet users, who attack the new boss of the company with the blue bird for having openly attacked its executives on Twitter. Ironic, but the pill goes wrong.
Because if the sounds of corridors already seemed to indicate that employees at Twitter were not particularly reassured by the idea of working under the orders of Elon Musk, the latter does nothing to improve his image with them, on the contrary.
Another troll from elon musk
First, you may have seen a meme posted by Elon Musk on his Twitter account a few hours ago.. This one simply mocks the moderation of the social network and more particularly the “ideas of the left” on which it would be based.
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April 27, 2022
If we find nothing particularly nasty in this meme, it is true that we can wonder if it was really in good taste, on the part of the new boss of Twitter, to share it. But finally, it simply continues in its logic according to which it is necessary to prove to the greatest number that it is about to make the social network a new place where freedom of expression is law.
from trolling to harassment, there is only one step
No, what really disturbs is that this comes on top of another similar criticism by Elon Musk of Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s policy and security lawyer. On Tuesday, the author and journalist Saagar Enjeti published a tweet in which he accused the lawyer of having censored an article from the conservative daily, the New York Postduring the presidential campaign. Elon Musk then responded to this tweet very directly:
Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate
April 26, 2022
Suspending a major news organization’s Twitter account for posting a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate. Elon Musk
A message that went wrong, especially since Vijaya Gadde would already be psychologically fragile and would have cried during a meeting between executives following the takeover of Twitter. The affair caused a lot of reaction: for his part, Dick Costolo, the former boss of the social network, believes “harassing is not leading”. Complicated beginnings at Twitter for Elon Musk, therefore.
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