Elon Musk’s weekend: Plenty of tweets, little clarity
It was a weekend that highlighted just how unpredictable and contradictory Musk can be.
Twitter’s new “Chief Twit” spent the weekend tweeting — and it’s still not any clearer what Elon Musk will do with his new company.
Musk posted more than 20 times Saturday and Sunday, offering mostly conflicting signals. He denied a report from The New York Times that he planned to make major layoffs Monday ahead of a date when many Twitter employees receive stock grants. But he also seemed to embrace at least one tweet that implied Twitter employed too many people, or at least too many people without the right skill set.
“There seem to be 10 people ‘managing’ for every one person coding,” he noted in a reply to @spideycyp_155, a self-proclaimed “Die hard fan of Elon Musk.”
Musk did reassure LeBron James after he expressed concerns about an uptick of racial slurs on the platform, retweeting Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity. That has been among Musk’s most significant votes of confidence for the company’s current moderation team, the head of which was reportedly fired Friday. Later Sunday night, he posted what appeared to be internal communications from Roth indicating that information about fake accounts had been kept from him that would have been relevant to his efforts to scuttle the Twitter deal. At the same time, he also continued to imply that the current moderation efforts had become biased or overzealous.
Perhaps related, and most notably this weekend, Musk tweeted and deleted a response to Hillary Clinton that included a link to a known conspiracy website that made unsubstantiated claims about the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. He also tweeted a cartoon that is colloquially known on the internet as a “dickbutt.”
It was a weekend that highlighted just how unpredictable and contradictory Musk can be.
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