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Elon Musk Is Crafting A Narrative For The Death Of Twitter (www.forbes.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Fitik@fedia.io to c/twitter@lemmy.world
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Elon Musk has said and done a lot of weird and outrageous things during his tenure as the owner of Twitter (now X), but we may have just seen the weirdest and most outrageous.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tl;dr

“I don’t want them to advertise,” Musk said. “If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising or money go f*** yourself. Go. F***. Yourself,” he said. “Is that clear? Hey Bob [Iger, CEO of Disney], if you’re in the audience, that’s how I feel.”

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And this bit

In a normal situation, you might see the value of a company drop and Musk sell it off to someone else for a loss on what he paid for it. But this is not a normal situation, as Musk’s comments and overall behavior lately seem to indicate. It would be unwise to think he might not just take the whole thing down out of spite, and attempt to tell the world that it was the giant megacorps that did this. The only ones who will believe him are his beloved Blue Checks, but they will not even exist anymore.