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[–] ActionJackson@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] ashar@infosec.pub 89 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

"I know Twitter can't even cover it's operating costs but trust me bro" ~ Elmonk

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He wanted a headline, and he got it.

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

[–] stempo@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

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 🙄

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 64 points 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.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 59 points 1 year ago

Can't we add a rule to not allow news which only are created by "Musk said ..."?

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 32 points 1 year ago

Everyone get a job at Amazon and start posting slurs on twitter so we can take them both down at once

[–] fisco@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

Ohh...so he's going to pay for his eX employees to sue him....

[–] fluke@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] fluke@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of another far right mouth piece.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Unfairly" is the key word here.

Just another lie from a fascist symp.

[–] Jourei@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago
[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 12 points 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.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpicyPeaSoup@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Elon Musk sues Elon Musk after Elon Musk's employee was fired for criticising Elon Musk.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

World news, everybody.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Why is this dude just roleplaying made up shit considered news

[–] unminded@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, lose more money pls

[–] cthonctic@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

So this is how he will excuse sending money to Trump...

[–] outbound@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

*For Twitter Blue users only

[–] Nusm@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago