Long Observer piece about Twitter:
In an impossible-to-follow tweet thread that unfolded over several hours, Taibbi published the names and emails of rank and file ex-employees involved in communications with government officials, insinuating that Twitter had suppressed the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
It wasn’t impossible to follow and it didn’t insinuate. It stated, flat out, that Twitter had suppressed the story. As, indeed, it had.
Employees rushed to warn a Twitter operations analyst whom Taibbi had doxed to privatise her social media accounts, knowing she was about to face a deluge of abuse.
Amazeballs. Worrying about someone getting slagged off on social media is more important than swinging elections by suppressing truths. There might be good reason why 75% of these people are now gone, no?
Twitter continues to haemorrhage money,
That’s not obviously true. A 75% headcount fall and a – by some estimations – 40% revenue fall could mean absolutely anything. Even a return to profitability.
But Musk appears unaware of what he’s actually broken: the company culture
But that’s not a mistake. That’s the aim, the intention. That’s the whole goal from the start.
They’re really not getting it, are they?
Now, whether Musk is going to win in the end I don’t know. But if he does then I, for one, will laugh like a drain. Because there’s so much invested in this by the journalistic classes – Musk broken Twitter, going to lose it all, it’ll go bust etc. And if and when it comes roaring back with a decent profit then we’ll have our evidence, won’t we? Fire all the woke, the lazy, the progressive, and make an organisation work. Hmm, good plan for the rest of society, no?