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Twitter’s Board Doesn’t Even Own Hardly Any Shares

The latest: Twitter’s board doesn’t even hardly own any shares. Wow, with Jack departing, the Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares! Objectively, their economic interests are simply not aligned with shareholders. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2022 Elon Musk is acting surprised by…

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“Free Speech” is an Anti-Semitic Dogwhistle

Max Boot allegedly listens to Burzum when he is writing columns for the Washington Post about how we have to go to war with every country not run by Jews. But will he join his cousin Sean Penn in his planned siege of Moscow? From…

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Twitter Reverses Deceptive Deleted Tweet Embed Policy

On March 22, I wrote : Twitter has, quite brilliantly, changed the way deleted tweets appear as embeds on websites. Now, any deleted tweet that has been embedded looks like this: You’ll notice: this is the same thing that a tweet looks like when it’s…

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Twitter Limits Russian Government’s Accounts

The censorship of the fake Ukraine war is definitely even more extreme than the censorship of vax facts. It’s wild. But this could be seen as more of an attack on Russia than an attack on speech. Although it is obviously both. BBC : Twitter…

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So Long, Friend…

Annnnnnnnnnnd He’s gone. That was one of the last big accounts giving an accurate image of the situation in the Ukraine. Every single pro-Russia account covering the war is gone now. Except one I won’t mention. Where’s Elon? I was sure Elon was supposed to…

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Zhao Posts Meme – Zhao to be Banned from Twitter?

Zhao Lijian has posted yet another meme. When the US pressures others to take sides, it actually means… pic.twitter.com/KYdIMmWe7G — Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) April 2, 2022 I don’t think this kind of meme is allowed. In order to use Twitter, you must believe in…

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