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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Judge - "Are you trying to cozy up with Trump?"

Musk - "Why? D-did he say something about me~?"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel it for the paralegal that has to read the early drafts of “Covfefe” eight hours a day.

[–] FuglyDuck 2 points 1 year ago

We might finally understand what he meant…

[–] cedarmesa 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] lapommedeterre 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe a former employee can comment on their backup and retention policy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's got to be on some backup tape somewhere

[–] jopepa 4 points 1 year ago

Gross, but I agree.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

omg what could have been so questionable that he wrote a draft but didn’t tweet it?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Multiple people shared the account and communicated by making draft messages. And apparently notable things were said/left as draft.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

That makes way more sense than the hypothesis that Trump has a filter

[–] RojoSanIchiban 13 points 1 year ago

Hm. I better go delete my drafts...

Uh I mean, yeah, good, let's see them, Jack!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How the f did Elon manage to resist this even for a little bit. That shit is like prosecution 101, this makes Elon look so much worse than he did, and it makes Twitter look incredibly unreliable.

There is something that should blow up in the media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dude this is not news at all. It was pretty clear that elon's goal with Twitter, I mean x, was to replatform fascists to gain some sort of standing with the conservative party. He's been an on an anti-liberal crusade for some time now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They slid right into his DMs you say?