Posted on 12/05/2022 9:54:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Elon Musk, who paid $ 44 billion to take over Twitter in October, told listeners on an episode of Twitter Spaces that he had faced a higher risk to his personal safety because of his actions at the company. He did not elaborate on what those actions were but said that he had been advised by security experts to take precautions.
When he officially took over, he cut employees down by about half in the first week of November. This resulted in 3,700 people being laid off.
Just 24 hours after he released internal documents about Twitter’s censorship of Hunter Biden’s laptop story, the Twitter CEO was questioned about his personal safety on Twitter Spaces.
“I’m not suicidal,” Musk declared during another interview discussing potential retaliation for his “Twitter files” leaks.
Kim Dotcom, tech guru and founder of Megaupload, asked Musk if he had been having ‘suicidal thoughts’ out of the blue during a chat, shocking other participants.
Musk, 51, replied to the question ‘I do not have any suicidal thoughts. If I committed suicide, it’s not real.’
“Members of staff discovered that they were fired after being logged out of their work around during the sweeping layoffs, according to the Daily Mail.
Musk said: ‘Frankly, the risk of something bad happening or literally even being shot is quite significant.
‘I’m definitely not going to be doing any open-air car parades, let me put it that way. It’s not that hard to kill me if somebody wanted to, so hopefully they don’t.
‘Maybe I should be more worried than I am, but I think generally, if you do right by the people, you have the people on your side.’
In the past, Musk has hinted at threats to his life in cryptic tweets. Most recently, he posted a mysterious tweet after clashing with a high-ranking Russian official over his commitment to providing Starlink satellite internet to Ukraine. The tweets Musk has sent indicate that he may believe he is being targeted, even though it is unclear if he is really in danger.
He posted: ‘If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin yah’.
“During the bizarre exchange Musk also indicated that there are ‘more smoking guns’ regarding censorship under Twitter’s past leadership. This is a huge problem for the social media company who has been struggling to regain user trust after a series of data breaches and privacy scandals,” The Mail report continued.
He hinted that there would be more releases in the near future – similar to that of the information published around Hunter Biden and the supposed cover up by Twitter. This caused many people to speculate what other information he could be referring to and what other bombshells he could drop.
Musk continued by saying that they will be putting all the information out there in order to have a clean slate. He believes that by doing this, they will be able to improve iteratively and that other media companies will be forced to do the same or they will lose their readership.
In a series of tweets, he published emails from Twitter executives involved in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story. Twitter appears to have actively worked to suppress the story and protect the Biden campaign, according to the emails.
The Mail added, “In one of these emails, sent ten days after The New York Post first broke the laptop story on October 14 of that year, Twitter staffers were asked to ‘review’ five tweets deemed problematic by ‘the Biden team.'”
That same day, another email reveals that there was an additional complaint from the DNC and two more tweets were deleted.
It is not clear from the leaked emails what the deleted tweets were about, however Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Andrew Kerr said he had discovered the contents of several of the tweets.
Among the tweets the Biden camp demanded to be taken down were images of Hunter’s genitalia and ‘Hunter Biden porn,’ according to his statement.
“He claims one of the tweets requested to be deleted by the DNC was from actor James Woods and was about Hunter smoking crack and a committing a sex act,” The Mail reported.
And he says the second tweet was a link to Hunter Biden weighing and using drugs, and another link to a Hunter Biden sex tape.
Musk also addressed the possibility of a government crackdown, during an increased period of scrutiny over his handling of the company.
Musk explained: ‘I think there probably will be some actions that will happen, but they’ll happen slowly.
‘It’s only been a month so far, but I would expect some, there’s probably at least a few nefarious things that are in the works, right.’
‘It would be naïve to assume there are no nefarious things. I’ll just expose them on Twitter and see what happens.’
That sinking feeling you get when you realize the helo pilot is from Chile.
That sinking feeling you get when you realize the helo pilot has a parachute on, and you don’t...
And his children. Anyone close.
👍🤪
Not that democrats are thugs or run a party that’s soft on crime, or believes in revenge, fraud and roughing up opponents or anything... /s
Men in cells don’t know what was in last night soup but they had a hell of good nights sleep.
MUSK may turn out to be the “Paul Revere’ of our time.
Vince Foster also did NOT commit suicide.
does anyone truly think that a multi letter agency or contractor for them, would take down an entire plane for just one person?
C’mon bro... really?
of course not... rofl... /s
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