I assume he means people who are fired for contributing to the increased hate speech on Twitter and not people who are fired for criticizing his shitty cars
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Yeah he's known for rage firing people. Also not related but as a child he was pushed down a flight of stairs for making a (supposedly) insensitive joke to a kid who lost his dad to suicide.
Rage firing at his own companies is bad enough, but he was trying to get people fired from completely unrelated companies for their tweets about Tesla.
Back in 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk actively monitored Twitter for tweets containing the hashtag $TSLA, often used by Tesla short-sellers. Musk would reach out to executives at companies to investigate employees who were potentially publishing negative tweets about his electric vehicle company.
During that time, Musk reportedly emailed former Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess in July 2018, questioning whether one of Diess's employees was using Twitter to criticize Tesla anonymously. Business Insider later reported that Volkswagen determined the tweets were posted by the employee's brother.
Musk also allegedly texted Lawrence Fossi's employer. According to the WSJ, on July 23, 2018, Musk sent a text to the top executive at Fossi's company, asking the boss whether he knew his employee, known on Twitter as Montana Skeptic, "was obsessively trashing Tesla via a pseudonym," as disclosed in the report.
Following the incident, Fossi voluntarily deactivated his Twitter account and ceased writing for Seeking Alpha. Expressing his surprise at the extent to which Musk would go to quash criticism, Fossi commented, "I'm a nobody and he calls my employer?"
So that's what makes you a billionaire. You need to find talking to people in a shitty way rejuvenating. Luck obviously but you also got to be really excited to talk to people about how they need to do what you want all time.
Jeeze, he's such a cunt of a human.
This is the company that failed to pay rent for its offices and hasn’t paid dues to former employees?
"I know Twitter can't even cover it's operating costs but trust me bro" ~ Elmonk
He wanted a headline, and he got it.
I honestly rolled my eyes the second I saw this. Dude is getting tiresome.
Beyond sick of this clown
Dude won’t even pay rent or severance, and he expects us to believe he’ll pay the legal fees for other folks? Ok sure bro 🙄
Can't we add a rule to not allow news which only are created by "Musk said ..."?
That would be cool to hear, if it didn't came from the same person that fired an employee over some tweets.
Everyone get a job at Amazon and start posting slurs on twitter so we can take them both down at once
"Unfairly" is the key word here.
Just another lie from a fascist symp.
How much do you wanna bet that he won't, save for a select couple of cases that they'll publicise the ever living shit out of before quietly never speaking of it again
If they do 1-2 publicly, then everyone will expect it. It will just generate more press. I bet they defend none and fold.
How could you even trust this guys word, he's broken his promises and straight up lied so often it's actually astonishing
Reminds me of another far right mouth piece.
Ohh...so he's going to pay for his eX employees to sue him....
(X) Doubt
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk has said X, formerly known as Twitter, will pay the legal bills of anyone who is treated unfairly by their employer for their activity on his social media platform.
On Sunday, Mr Musk told users that financial assistance from his platform would have "no limits".
Mr Musk is a self-described "free speech absolutist" and has been vocal in his criticisms of the platform's policies on moderating content prior to his takeover.
When he announced that he was taking over Twitter in April last year, Mr Musk said "free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated".
More recently, the firm that owns Twitter announced that it was suing an anti-hate organisation whose research criticised the platform.
X Corp accused CCDH of "unlawful acts" to "improperly gain access" to its data.
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Why is this dude just roleplaying made up shit considered news
So this is how he will excuse sending money to Trump...
Yeah, lose more money pls
I know Elon Twitler is a giga troll but now he's just taking the piss. He is probably going to fund his own legal bills against the unfairly terminated devs of the company he had to be forced to purchase.
*doubt
When he announced that he was taking over Twitter in April last year, Mr Musk said "free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated".
Which is why it's dangerous when the town square is owned by a billionaire who polices the content.
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