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Report: Woke Twitter Employees Are Running To Google And Meta As Musk Takeover Nears Completion
“Go pretend to work somewhere else”
Published
7 months agoon
Steve Watson

Hundreds of woke Twitter employees have deserted the company and gone to work for Google and Meta over the past few months in anticipation of Elon Musk taking over the company, according to a Business Insider report.
The piece notes that in the past three months, a total of 530 Twitter employees have left, with many running directly to the tech giant’s direct competitors.

Over 1,100 employees have left Twitter since Musk announced his intention to buy the company back in January, with almost a third going to Google or Meta.

The figures come from a new analysis of LinkedIn data, with the report noting that other workers have moved to the likes of Pinterest, LinkedIn, Snap, and TikTok.
Musk, who has vowed to complete the Twitter acquisition by Friday, has said he intends to make huge staff cuts of up to 75% anyway, cutting worker numbers from around 7,500 to around 2,000 employees.
The Washington Post also notes that even if Musk doesn’t close the deal, Twitter officials have planned a $800 million cut in payroll by the end of 2023 regardless.
Musk previously mocked work-from-home enthusiasts at Apple with a lazy dog meme, and also stated that constantly working remotely is “phoning it in,” informing employees they can collect their belongings if they disagree.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2022
In an email to Tesla employees earlier this year, Musk wrote “Remote work is no longer acceptable,” except in extreme cases.
“Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla,” he wrote in correspondence then leaked by Tesla shareholder Sam Nissim.
#Tesla no longer allowing remote work@TeslaPodcast @SawyerMerritt @WholeMarsBlog @garyblack00 @GerberKawasaki pic.twitter.com/DKAgh9ptSX
— Sam Nissim (@SamNissim) June 1, 2022
Musk confirmed that the email was authentic and doubled down, saying anyone unhappy with it should “pretend to work somewhere else”:
They should pretend to work somewhere else
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2022
Musk has promised that “work ethic expectations” at Twitter will be “extreme” when he takes over:
Also, work ethic expectations would be extreme, but much less than I demand of myself
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 7, 2022
Yesterday, Musk was filmed entering Twitter HQ literally carrying a sink. He tweeted the footage with the caption “let that sink in,” clearly an effort to trigger his detractors:
Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in! pic.twitter.com/D68z4K2wq7
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2022
The post prompted a barrage of memes imagining the reaction of remaining woke Twitter employees:
LET’S GOOOOOO!!!!! pic.twitter.com/gHJkC5J209
— Jason Jones (@jonesville) October 26, 2022
— AG 🔥 (@Yolo304741) October 26, 2022
— 🇺🇸PB&J🇺🇸 Paul B. Jones (@pbj_on_white) October 26, 2022
Please tell us this is tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/ACkTr2FNlt
— Cincy Browncoat – You can't take the sky from me (@cincy_browncoat) October 26, 2022
— The TV Grump (@TheTVGrump) October 26, 2022
— Patel Meet (@mn_google) October 26, 2022
— Silent Memejority (@memejority) October 26, 2022
Elon has arrived for the Twitter board meeting. pic.twitter.com/GCk8odJHl8
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) October 26, 2022
The current mood of all the woke employees at Twitter. pic.twitter.com/6eiwHayxVd
— Nick Fad🇺🇸 (@NicAtNigh) October 26, 2022
😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/ju6NCkbgNv
— 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐈 ♦️(₿) ⛰️ 🦬 (@Marco_P_Meloni) October 26, 2022
Meanwhile, as Twitter stock is rising, Meta is collapsing:
JUST IN 🚨 Banks have started to send $13 billion in cash backing Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, according to people familiar with the matter, WSJ reported
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 26, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg urged to spend less on metaverse after suffering ‘supersized and terrifying losses’ https://t.co/Ipa4qwMoOb
— Business News (@Busines65959783) October 27, 2022
Massive cut in market cap in after hours trading tonight – via @MarketWatch – " #Facebook earnings cut in half, Meta stock sinks toward lowest prices in more than 6 years" https://t.co/FbtjJ9mqnK
— Irwin Lazar (@imlazar) October 26, 2022
Overnight trading wipes $65bn from value of Facebook and Instagram owner https://t.co/xfShc98JqM
— Cindy Lee (@cidlee1) October 27, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth has plummeted by $85 billion so far this year. From $125 billion to $40 billion.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) October 27, 2022
Facebook is collapsing while Elon prepares to take over Twitter. You love to see it.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) October 27, 2022
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Musk Demands AP Back Claims Or Retract Article Over ‘Unchecked’ Stolen Election Tweets
Published
2 weeks agoon
21 May, 2023Zero Hedge

Elon Musk has told AP to put up or shut up – after the outlet published an article alleging that “false claims of a stolen election thrive unchecked on Twitter,” refuting Musk’s claims during a CNBC interview that such claims would be fact checked on the platform.
“Either back up your claims @AP with actual source data or retract your story,” Musk tweeted on Friday.
Either back up your claims @AP with actual source data or retract your story
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 19, 2023
The May 18 article written by Ali Swenson, who previously worked at a Magneto-funded fact checking nonprofit, the Center for Public Integrity, cites the CNBC interview in which Musk said that claims of stolen election on Twitter “will be corrected, 100 percent.”
Musk was responding to host David Faber, who asked about Twitter users claiming that the 2020 election was “rigged” or “stolen” and whether such tweets would be tagged with a community note or face other actions.
“To be clear, I don’t think it was a stolen election,” Musk replied, with the caveat that he believes there was someelection fraud.
“By the same token, if somebody is going to say that there is never any election fraud anywhere, this is obviously false. If 100 million people vote, the probability that the fraud is zero—is zero,” he added, before noting that it’s important to strike a balance in discussions regarding election integrity.
🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk Does NOT Believe 2020 Election Was Stolen
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 16, 2023
In an interview with David Faber, Elon Musk, made a significant statement by expressing his belief that the 2020 election was not stolen.
This statement goes against the claims made by some who allege fraud in the… pic.twitter.com/SwN4uen115
Regardless, people in America are allowed to question the outcome of elections – like Democrats did in 2016 when Hillary Clinton kicked off her self-pity tour – so CNBC and AP and the rest of them can pound sand with that little purity test.
According to the Associated Press article, since former President Donald Trump held a CNN town hall in which he reiterated his claims that the 2020 election was stolen, such claims have spread on Twitter.
“Yet many such claims have thrived on Twitter in the week since former President Donald Trump spent much of a CNN town hall digging in on his lie that the 2020 election was ‘rigged’ against him,” reads Swenson’s article, which provides no evidence. “Twitter posts that amplified those false claims have thousands of shares with no visible enforcement, a review of posts on the platform shows.”
The article cites media intelligence from firm Zignal Labs, which claims without evidence to have identified the 10 most widely shared tweets promoting a “rigged election” narrative following the town hall.
“While Twitter has a system in place for users to add context to misleading tweets, the 10 posts, which collectively amassed more than 43,000 retweets, had no such notes attached,” AP claimed – again without evidence.
More via the Epoch Times,
In his town hall appearance on CNN, Trump reiterated his view that the 2020 election was stolen.
The former president said that he performed “fantastically” in 2020, doing “far better” than in 2016 with 12 million more votes.
“When you look at that result and when you look at what happened during that election, unless you’re a very stupid person, you see what happens,” Trump said before adding that he believes the election was “rigged.”
“That was a rigged election, and it’s a shame that we had to go through it. It’s very bad for our country. All over the world, they looked at it, and they saw exactly what everyone else saw,” Trump said.
Donald Trump reaffirms his position on the 2020 election being stolen 🗳️ pic.twitter.com/DF0Ne0j3KR
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 11, 2023
He pointed to the Twitter Files disclosures as an indication of apparent collusion between the FBI and Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story in the run-up to the election, which Trump said, “made a big difference.”
The seventh installment of the Musk-endorsed Twitter Files claimed that there was an “organized effort” on the part of federal law enforcement to target social media companies that reported on the explosive Hunter Biden laptop story, which was first published by the New York Post.
Hunter Biden Laptop Story
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the New York Post published a story about a laptop abandoned at a computer repair shop that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden and contained emails suggesting that then-candidate Joe Biden had knowledge of, and was allegedly involved in, his son’s foreign business dealings.
The New York Post’s story titled “Smoking-gun Email Reveals How Hunter Biden Introduced Ukrainian Businessman to VP Dad” was published on Oct. 14, 2020.
Twitter first prevented sharing of the story for 24 hours before reversing the decision. However, the story did not circulate on the platform for weeks because of a policy requiring the original poster to delete and repost the original tweet.
Polling has indicated that if the public had been aware of the suppressed story ahead of the election, it may have cost then presidential candidate Joe Biden several percentage points of voters—possibly enough to thwart his bid for the White House.
“In Twitter Files #7, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published,” wrote author Michael Shellenberger, who released screenshots on Dec. 19, 2022, that appeared to show message exchanges between top Twitter officials and the FBI in October 2020.
The FBI told The Epoch Times in an earlier emailed statement that it had only offered general warnings to Twitter about foreign election interference and never pushed for the platform to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Former Twitter executives have conceded that they made a mistake by blocking the Hunter Biden laptop story but denied that they were pressured to suppress the story by law enforcement.
However, documents filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) show that the FBI warned Twitter explicitly of a “hack-and-leak operation involving Hunter Biden” ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Twitter’s former head of site integrity Yoel Roth made the remarks in a signed declaration (pdf) attached to a Dec. 21, 2020 letter to the FEC’s Office of Complaints Examination and Legal Administration on behalf of Twitter.
Roth said in the attached declaration that he was told by the FBI at a series of meetings ahead of the 2020 election that the agency warned of the threat of hacked materials being distributed on social media platforms.
“I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,” Roth stated in the declaration.
“I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden,” Roth added.
Roth said that Twitter’s Site Integrity Team determined that the New York Post’s articles about the laptop violated the platform’s policies on hacked materials and Twitter took action to suppress the distribution of posts sharing the articles.
He later acknowledged that it was a mistake for Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
This post was originally published at Zero HedgeScience & Tech
TSA Pilot-Tests Controversial Facial Recognition Technology At These 16 Airports
Published
3 weeks agoon
19 May, 2023Zero Hedge

The next time you find yourself at airport security, prepare to look directly into a camera. The Transportation Security Administration is quietly testing controversial facial recognition technology at airports nationwide.
AP News said 16 airports, including Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall and Reagan National near Washington, as well as ones in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Jose, and Gulfport-Biloxi and Jackson in Mississippi, have installed kiosks with cameras (at some TSA checkpoints) that allow passengers to insert their government-issued ID and look into a camera as facial recognition technology asses if the ID and person match.
Here’s what to expect at airports utilizing this new technology:
Travelers put their driver’s license into a slot that reads the card or place their passport photo against a card reader. Then they look at a camera on a screen about the size of an iPad, which captures their image and compares it to their ID. The technology is both checking to make sure the people at the airport match the ID they present and that the identification is in fact real. A TSA officer is still there and signs off on the screening. -AP
“What we are trying to do with this is aid the officers to actually determine that you are who you say who you are,” said Jason Lim, identity management capabilities manager, during a recent demonstration of the technology to reporters at BWI.
TSA said the pilot test is voluntary, and passengers can opt out. The facial recognition technology has raised concerns among critics, like five senators (four Democrats and an Independent) who sent a letter in February to the TSA requesting the pilot test be halted immediately.
“Increasing biometric surveillance of Americans by the government represents a risk to civil liberties and privacy rights,” the senators said.
The letter continued:
“We are concerned about the safety and security of Americans’ biometric data in the hands of authorized private corporations or unauthorized bad actors.
“As government agencies grow their database of identifying images, increasingly large databases will prove more and more enticing targets for hackers and cybercriminals.”
Meg Foster, a justice fellow at Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology, is concerned that even though the TSA says it’s not storing biometric data, it collects, “What if that changes in the future?”
Jeramie Scott, with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said that even though the TSA facial recognition kiosks are being tested, it could be only a matter of time before it becomes a more permanent fixture at checkpoints.
Despite the US being a first-world country, it has third-world protections for its people. There’s an increasing number of government agencies that want your biometric data. Even the IRS wants your face.
This post was originally published at Zero HedgeScience & Tech
Twitter launches encrypted DMs – but Elon Musk warns users NOT to trust the WhatsApp-style feature yet
Published
4 weeks agoon
13 May, 2023Daily Mail

Elon Musk has warned Twitter users that its new WhatsApp-style feature should not be trusted – after launching it just yesterday.
Encrypted messaging was released on Wednesday as part of Twitter’s goal to become he ‘most trusted platform on the internet’.
But Musk has now stressed the privacy feature is ‘not quite there yet’ despite his initial jokes that he could not view messages even with a ‘gun to [his] head’.
Twitter said: ‘As Elon Musk said, when it comes to Direct Messages, the standard should be, if someone puts a gun to our heads, we still can’t access your messages. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re working on it.’
Encryption converts messages into scrambled text that cannot be read by anyone except the intended recipient.
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