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'Twitter does not believe in free speech': Undercover Project Veritas recording reveals Twitter engineer saying platform censors the right but NOT the left, everyone who works there is 'commie as f**k' and they 'hate' Elon Musk

2022-05-17

[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]

Project Veritas have published a secretly recorded conversation with a Twitter engineer admitting the company has a left-wing bias

Siru Murugesan, described by Project Veritas as a senior engineer at the company, said it was 'commie as f***'

He said many employees were angry and worried about Elon Musk's takeover of the company, and 'did all we could, to like revolt against it'

Murugesan said that Twitter had operated an extremely left-wing, lax culture where people could take any time off they wanted and not worry about profit

He told the undercover operative that there was 'bias' against conservatives, and said: 'Twitter does not believe in free speech'

Posted by:Skidmark

#7 The game only gets better.

My guess the next gambit is to talk about moving it to Texas.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-05-17 15:58

#6 The issue is whether you view management's job as maximizing returns to stockholders or maximizing benefits to "stakeholders". "Stakeholders" has no clear definition, but sort of means "people the right kind of people like". Or if you prefer, "Bullshit talks and money walks."

Posted by: Matt 2022-05-17 15:22

#5 I kinda wondered why a successful billionare like Musk would want to get involved in it.

Good question. Maybe it isn't about the money. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook have become the modern town square. Right now they are under the control of people who really do not have America's best interests at heart. Removing that control would be a noble thing, even more so than terraforming Mars.

He may be playing with them, allowing them to destroy themselves.

Could be. There does seem to be a meltdown in progress. Estimated bot count has gone up from 5% to 20%. At the very least, that is going to affect the sale price.

Posted by: SteveS 2022-05-17 13:54

#4 The entire premise of the dotcom boom was "making money is no longer necessary." After the dotcom crash, the premise was refined to, "get funded and sell out before investors realize you have no plan to make money."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-05-17 12:50

#3 ...he hasn't forked over the $$$ yet. He may be playing with them, allowing them to destroy themselves.

Napoleon Bonaparte — 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.'

Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-05-17 12:43

#2 "not worry about profit"
They been loosing money for years. Their money stream appears to be 'burn through cash, sell overpriced stock, repeat'. I kinda wondered why a successful billionare like Musk would want to get involved in it.

Posted by: ed in texas 2022-05-17 11:16

#1 Yes

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-05-17 10:50

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