Musk tweeted he disagreed with a decision Twitter made in 2020 to restrict the distribution of a New York Post article about U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. The billionaire, who has about 87 million Twitter followers, called the company’s decision to lock the Post’s account on the platform “incredibly inappropriate.” His comment was followed by a wave of abusive tweets directed against the company’s top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde.
Musk, who on Monday reached a deal to acquire Twitter for $44 billion, was responding to a tweet by a podcast host Saagar Enjeti about Gadde, the executive who oversees Twitter’s policy and legal teams. Enjeti described Gadde as “the top censorship advocate at Twitter who famously gaslit the world on Joe Rogan’s podcast and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story.” Gadde then became the subject of a wave of personal attacks by Twitter users on the platform.
Twitter’s merger agreement with Musk stipulates that Musk can tweet about the deal while it is pending “so long as such Tweets do not disparage the Company or any of its Representatives.” There was no indication that Twitter, which inked the deal with Musk after deciding his offer was attractive, would seek to cancel the sale because of his recent criticism.
Musk can also pull out if Twitter does something naughty in between now and when the deal closes next fall. But there's nothing weird here - Twitter can't buy another company, or sell itself, or enter into a contract where it pays me its entire net worth etc. /8
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Imagine what 44 BILLIONS could do toward world hunger and poverty. I've lost a lot of respect for Mr Musk.
He weak is twitters management .. in seeking this clause all they care about it their own asses
We love Elon…. What a bad ass .. says what he thinks with truth
Compared to the platform wide Censorship and Banning of truth, science, and free speech before he bought it 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
acoyne Not really. He can't disparage the company only in the context of talking about the deal. His tweets didn't comment on the deal.
He also lies about space x. Rockets cannot work in space
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That's not even close to disparaging. Let's stop stretching the meaningof a word for the sake of being contentious.
I think people are just trying to find a problem where a problem does not exist.
Really
Did your boss Jeff make you write this artical? How many more hit peices will we see from the mainstream news?
Well That agreement goes against free speech. Why would he sign that.
From Trump to Musk through Putin, the relentless defense of 'freedom' seems to be little more than the defense of the right to bully, whether its minorities, your employees, entire countries or the environment. Amoral libertarianism as entitlement to hunindered enjoyment.
Sounds more like he hurt peoples feelings. If he already broke the contract we’d be hearing about it from lawyers not commentators.
he feels no need to be accountable for anything so why would he ever keep a promise?
He's excising his right to the free speech idea which is why he bought the platform in the first place.
Let’s hope he does the right thing with Twitter. This is serious and if he cares about the future like he says he does or is only when it makes him money that he cares of the future!
Watching the Left lose their mind has been so entertaining the last 2 days.
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