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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Everyone is downvoting as if this is a baseless conspiracy and ridiculous.

For those people, here's a source

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490

And an excerpt;

On the day that public records revealed that Elon Musk had become Twitter’s biggest shareholder, an unknown sender texted the billionaire and recommended an article imploring him to acquire the social network outright.

Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the 3,000-word anonymous article said, would amount to a “declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire.” The sender of the texts was offering Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, a playbook for the takeover and transformation of Twitter. As the anniversary of Musk's purchase approaches, the identity of the sender remains unknown.

The three texts were sent on April 4, 2022. In the nearly 18 months since then, many of the decisions Musk made after he bought Twitter appear to have closely followed that road map, up to and including his ongoing attacks against the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit organization founded by Jewish Americans to counter discrimination.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But...how does NBC News have texts that Musk received...?


Edit: Revealed in a court filing.

See relevant text:

The messages from the unknown sender were revealed in a court filing last year as evidence in a lawsuit Twitter brought against Musk after he tried to back out of buying it. The redacted documents were unearthed by The Chancery Daily, an independent legal publication covering proceedings before the Delaware Court of Chancery.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

God damn but that gun is smoking like Australia in a heatwave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is one explanation, but imho a more likely explanation in the spirit of Hanlon's razor is that he receives 100s of crazy texts like this on a daily basis and one of them just happens to somewhat align with what crazy shit he is doing now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You should read the article. It details how Musk followed the text's suggestions exactly, and is aligning himself closely with the same far right neo-nazis that begged him to buy Twitter and deplatform it.

Even if that exact text didn't convince him, one of the well known far right political pundits has definitely tried. Free speech is like their worst enemy, they can't let Twitter be open to all that free information.