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Mark Cuban says he'll be using Threads more after criticizing X as Elon Musk's 'echo chamber'
MSN---- business insider. ^ | 2-3 | lloydlee@insider.com

Posted on 02/03/2024 11:23:18 PM PST by dennisw

Mark Cuban and Elon Musk recently had an argument on X over DEI initiatives. The argument soon devolved into insults from Musk and his supporters. Cuban told Business Insider that X is a good place to argue but that he'll be using Threads more. Recently, Mark Cuban learned that if you're searching for enlightenment or, at the very least, a stimulating debate on hot-button topics of the day, you may think twice about relying on Elon Musk's X.

Last month, Cuban defended corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI) on the social media platform and sometimes solicited people to join the conversation. And many users did, including an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission employee.

But it didn't take long for the debate, if it ever was one, to devolve into an exchange of insults — notably from the X owner himself. Musk chimed in throughout Cuban's posts to call him a "liar" and "racist" and mockingly asked the fellow billionaire if people can expect to see "white/Asian women" on the Dallas Mavericks.

Cuban is a former majority owner of the NBA team.

Cuban told The Wall Street Journal that the reaction didn't come to him as a surprise. What did suprise him was how it appeared no one came to his defense on DEI and, instead, how hate quickly ensued on the platform.

"Having Elon call me a racist, moron, chicken, and whatever else he posted didn't surprise me and, honestly, I didn't care what he said," Cuban, who is Jewish, told the Journal. "But that seemed to open the door for levels of antisemitism and hate that I didn't expect."

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Predictable article. Business insider swings left.


21 posted on 02/04/2024 4:39:48 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: dennisw

Cuban only likes his own echoes. Not those of others.


22 posted on 02/04/2024 4:40:09 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Next week on The Bickersons... )
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To: dennisw

Yeah Mark, because there’s not enough stupid douchebaggery on X/Twitter now, right?


23 posted on 02/04/2024 4:57:33 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: dennisw

Musk should replace Cuban’s Twitter account with a simple message directing his followers to Threads, and then see what happens.

Cuban will SCREAM of that’s done.


24 posted on 02/04/2024 4:59:40 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He’s an asshat.


25 posted on 02/04/2024 5:01:40 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: dennisw

Cuban: “I ain’t smart enuff to debate with someone who has an actual brain, so I’ll find a place with more gullible dummies on it.”


26 posted on 02/04/2024 5:02:37 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: dennisw

Cuban is an @$$.


27 posted on 02/04/2024 5:05:05 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: dennisw

Cuban lost the argument and now he’s angry.


28 posted on 02/04/2024 5:25:32 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: dennisw

At one time Cuban seemed (faked?) a moderate Republican.

LOL just another rich, Jewish, woke leftist.

Like Zuky and Eisner etc….


29 posted on 02/04/2024 5:38:05 AM PST by Phoenix8
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30 posted on 02/04/2024 7:12:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I look forward to his last day as a billionaire.)
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To: dennisw

“Mark Cuban says he’ll be using Threads more after criticizing X as Elon Musk’s ‘echo chamber’”

Do what?

Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end Sarah Perez@sarahpereztc / 1:01 PM EST•November 17, 2021

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-its-companion-app-threads-by-year-end/

Note date.


31 posted on 02/04/2024 7:46:55 AM PST by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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