“Elon Musk’s Twitter fingers must have been stiff on Monday morning, because more than six hours after users voted for him to resign as CEO, the notorious tweeter still had not made any public statement,” the Daily Beast reports.
Elon Musk Builds an Anti-Left Media Ecosystem
“Elon Musk and allies are building a new anti-left media ecosystem almost overnight,” Axios reports.
“It’s as if the New York Times editorial page suddenly flipped to the right. With the reins in Musk’s hands, the right is gaining power in online spaces the left once dominated.”
The Washington Post reports that high-profile Republicans gained tens of thousands of followers in the weeks after Musk acquired Twitter, while their Democratic counterparts lost followers.
Twitter Poll Shows Users Want Elon Musk to Step Down
“A majority of Twitter users said Elon Musk should step down as chief of the company in a poll the billionaire pledged to follow, casting new uncertainty on the social-media platform after more than seven weeks of turmoil since he took it over,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“More than 17 million users had voted by the time the poll on the platform closed after 6 a.m. ET, with 57.5% saying he should leave as head of the company he bought in October for $44 billion.”
Axios: “His potential resignation as the head of Twitter could end one of the most chaotic and controversial tenures ever for a CEO of a major U.S. company.”
Elon Musk Asks Twitter Users If He Should Resign
“Elon Musk apologized and launched a poll asking whether he should step down as head of Twitter on Sunday night after the company launched a new policy that would suspend accounts linking to certain other platforms, a move that ignited massive backlash from individuals including some of Musk’s own supporters,” the Washington Post reports.
Musk apologized after putting the policy in place and wrote: “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.”
Twitter Bans Links to Their Competitors
Twitter is now banning all links to other social media sites.
Twitter Reinstates Accounts of Suspended Journalists
“Twitter is reinstating the accounts of several journalists who were suspended this week, according to a Saturday morning tweet from Elon Musk,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The new chief executive and owner of Twitter said he would lift the suspensions based on the results of a Twitter survey that asked users whether he should keep the accounts offline for a week or reinstate them immediately. More than 58% of respondents said the ban should be lifted right away.”
Democratic Lawmakers Seeking Alternative to Twitter
“Elon Musk’s daily Twitter wars have Democratic lawmakers looking for backup social media options in case the situation worsens,” Semafor reports.
Twitter Kills Audio Feature After Elon Musk Appearance
“Twitter Spaces, the audio feature that allows people to participate in group chats using the social media platform, has been disabled and it’s not clear whether it will ever return,” Gizmodo reports.
Musk took part in a group chat last night but abruptly left the conversation after being asked tough questions about why he banned journalists from the service.
Pelosi Embraces Bill to Ban TikTok
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing for Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) bill to ban TikTok on government devices to be added to the omnibus spending package, Punchbowl News reports.
Senate Votes to Ban TikTok From Government Devices
“The Senate passed by unanimous consent a bill that would ban federal employees from downloading or using the social-media app TikTok on government devices, in the face of mounting national-security concerns,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The legislation would still have to pass the House and be signed by the president to become law. A similar bill passed the Senate in a previous Congress but never moved forward in the House.”
Twitter Suspends Account that Tracked Elon Musk
Twitter suspended an account that actively tracked Elon Musk’s private jet, Axios reports.
“The suspension raises questions about Musk’s commitment to free speech on Twitter, a value he has directly linked to his takeover of the platform.”
Elon Musk Not Paying Bills at Twitter
New York Times: “To cut costs, Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or any of its global offices for weeks… Twitter has also refused to pay a $197,725 bill for private charter flights made the week of Mr. Musk’s takeover.”
“Twitter’s leaders have also discussed the consequences of denying severance payments to thousands of people who have been laid off since the takeover.”
“The aggressive moves signal that Mr. Musk is still slashing expenditures and is bending or breaking Twitter’s previous agreements to make his mark.”
Lawmakers Unveil Bipartisan Bill to Ban TikTok
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) “announced bipartisan legislation to ban China’s popular social media app TikTok, ratcheting up pressure on owner ByteDance Ltd amid U.S. fears the app could be used to spy on Americans and censure content,” Reuters reports.
“The legislation would block all transactions from any social media company in or under the influence of China and Russia.”
Elon Musk Goes Full QAnon
“Elon Musk escalated his battle of words with previous managers of Twitter into risky new territory over the weekend, allying himself with far-right crusaders against a purported epidemic of child sex abuse and implying that the company’s former head of trust and safety had a permissive view of sexual activity by minors,” the Washington Post reports.
Elon Musk Is Ruining Trump’s Presidential Campaign
Joshua Green: “For years, Donald Trump has survived scandal, scorn and defeat and still managed to keep his warlord grip on the Republican Party. Even this month’s epic string of disasters, from his candidates’ losses in the midterms and his dinner with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and professed Hitler-fan Ye (Kanye West) to the tax fraud convictions of two of his companies, might not derail him.”
“But irrelevance might. In the critical weeks since his Nov. 16 campaign launch, the person who has dominated the right-wing attention economy isn’t Trump. It’s Elon Musk.”
“Musk didn’t just take over Trump’s favorite medium, Twitter. He seems to have done so for the explicit Trumpian purposes of striking back at his critics, ‘owning the libs,’ and stoking the sort of generalized chaos that was once Trump’s calling card, before he was banished from Twitter and took up exile in the empty wilderness of Truth Social. He’s succeeded on all fronts.”
The Mass Unbanning at Twitter Begins
“Thousands of previously banned Twitter users, including members of the far-right and users sharing blatant misinformation, have begun to have their accounts restored to the platform,” CNN reports.
Planning for a Post-Twitter World
Elon Musk to Detail ‘Suppression’ of Hunter Biden Story
Elon Musk said Friday that he would release details about what he characterized as Twitter’s “suppression” of a controversial story about Hunter Biden’s laptop that was published before the 2020 election, Insider reports.
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