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Twitter Employees Have a Meltdown Over Elon’s ‘All-Hands’ Call – Opinion

By Pluralist / June 17, 2022

On Thursday, Twitter held an “all hands” virtual meeting for employees to hear from Elon Musk about his plans for the company as they move toward finalizing the deal for him to take over the platform.

Musk said that he wanted to eradicate bots and protect freedom of expression on Twitter. Yet that has prompted months of a liberal meltdown over him buying Twitter because they’re afraid that not having someone completely in line with their narrative will cost them their media control. Their reaction seems to have furthered Musk’s awakening down the path to voting Republican for the first time as he did this week, going for Mayra Flores to represent the 34th District in South Texas. Musk also stated that he leans toward Florida Governor. Ron DeSantis as president for 2024.

Project Veritas leaked Musk’s remarks to the employees where he said it was essential to have “free speech,” it was “important to represent multiple opinions & not driving a narrative,” and that there needed to be transparency if people were to trust the platform. Musk concurred, showing that yes, he is likely to inhibit the driving of the “narrative.”

But that didn’t stop the employees who were hearing his remarks from throwing a tantrum on their private Slack channel. Reuters reports that the employees were complaining about Musk and posting memes. Project Veritas leaked then the complaints. What’s funny about the comments is that they’re so concerned about the comments and disinformation that people might make on Twitter, yet the stuff they were posting was such a font of misinformation and liberal bias, that it was easy to see why Twitter has been so left-wing up to this point.

They were so out of control! They were furious that Elon voted in Mayra Flores, with many calling her a QAnon backer and another saying Musk was a Musk supporter. This is a leftist attack on Twitter. There’s no proof to back it. They also attacked Elon’s claim he was a moderate. Yes, he’s not a “moderate” in their eyes — moderate for them probably means someone much further left. If he’s leaning toward DeSantis, he’s also not a moderate in the way we conservatives might use that term as something of a pejorative. Of course, his support for DeSantis was demonized by the employees. One accused him of “homophobia and transphobia” and another called DeSantis’ bill the “Don’t Say Gay bill” and said he was the worst person. He said he would continue fighting misinformation after he assumed control. Perhaps they should check the misinformation they had been spreading.

They also personally attacked Musk saying things like he said “you know” too much on the call, one mocked that he was called a genius, and one compared what he was saying to the “very fine people” lie (the lie about what Trump supposedly said about Charlottesville Neo-Nazis). Some also had a meltdown when Elon allegedly said: “all lives mattered.”

This was most likely the person who received the award because he stepped in to win it.

A reckoning is possible, and that was what employees were most anxious about.

“There needs to be some rationalization of headcount and expenses. Right now the expenses exceed the revenues. Anyone who’s a significant contributor should have nothing to worry about,” said Mr. Musk. But they’re going to be cutting people.

It’s going to be an interesting takeover.

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