Elon Musk says X will support those treated "unfairly" by bosses due to behaviour on Twitter - now X.
    • MinekPo1 [it/she]@lemmygrad.ml
      12·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • ActionJackson@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        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?”

        • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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.

  • ashar@infosec.pubEnglish
    911·
    1 year ago

    This is the company that failed to pay rent for its offices and hasn’t paid dues to former employees?

  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social
    821·
    1 year ago

    He wanted a headline, and he got it.

    I honestly rolled my eyes the second I saw this. Dude is getting tiresome.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
    64·
    1 year ago

    That would be cool to hear, if it didn’t came from the same person that fired an employee over some tweets.

  • fluke@lemmy.world
    30·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Granite@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      If they do 1-2 publicly, then everyone will expect it. It will just generate more press. I bet they defend none and fold.

  • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
    27·
    1 year ago

    How could you even trust this guys word, he’s broken his promises and straight up lied so often it’s actually astonishing

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
    3311·
    1 year ago

    “Unfairly” is the key word here.

    Just another lie from a fascist symp.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    141·
    1 year ago

    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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  • Limeade@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Yes, let’s see all those fired Twitter employees get their legal bills covered for daring to criticize him in their tweets.