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Just a year ago, I once declared Threads dead on arrival. Now it’s quietly kicking Elon’s X into irrelevance — no cage match required. From bots and hate speech to fleeing advertisers and Grok’s antisemitic meltdown, X is imploding. Meanwhile, Threads is gaining ground on users, credibility, and momentum. Turns out iPINIONS was wrong, but… Read more.
Teslas now look more fascist and futuristic Two years ago, Jennifer Trebb thought driving a Tesla meant embracing the future. Now, she’s ditching her Model Y. She’s fed up with Elon Musk’s full-throttle dive into MAGA politics — Nazi salute included — and the megalomaniacal way his DOGE gang is reshaping the US government. She’s… Read more.
Threads one-year anniversary When Meta launched its new app ‘Threads,’ the hype was that it would be a “Twitter killer.” That’s because Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, wasted no time rebranding it as X and turning it into a social media hellscape, which most users seemed desperate to escape. In other words, Twitter was in… Read more.
Companies fleeing X over antisemitism A growing list of companies has suspended advertising from Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, amid the ongoing fallout over antisemitic content. … In response to an X user who had blamed the rise in online antisemitism on Jews, alleging they promoted ‘hatred against whites,’ the… Read more.
Elon Musk has become to business what Donald Trump is to politics. And, from the day he launched his bid to buy Twitter, Musk has been hellbent on making that antic analogy a reality. Musk threatens to sue Zuckerberg Rash and reckless decisions have defined Trump’s political activities. They have defined Musk’s business activities too. So it… Read more.
Just weeks ago, Elon Musk was thumping his box-car chest. He was goading Mark Zuckerberg into a cage fight. Remarkably, the hype was such that Italy even offered to stage it in the famed Colosseum. But little did Musk know that Zuckerberg had a different smackdown in mind. He was jonesing for a fight between Threads and… Read more.
And here’s to a Musk-less New Year! Read more.
The answer is simple. Democrats are as hooked on Twitter as teenagers are on TikTok. Musk is Trolling Democrats Put another way, Democrats sticking with Musk is like Republicans sticking with Trump. That might be a more apples-to-apples comparison. Democrats spent years denouncing Republicans for sticking with Donald Trump. Republicans were only interested in the primary votes and fundraising dollars. Trump’s… Read more.
My preference for the 2024 presidency is someone sensible and centrist. I had hoped that would be the case for the Biden administration, but I have been disappointed so far. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 26, 2022 Would you support Ron DeSantis in 2024, Elon? — Proud Elephant (@ProudElephantUS) November 26, 2022 Yes — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November… Read more.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk for a sucker. Except that Twitter employees are the ones feeling played. That’s what inspired this headline today in the New York Post: Jack Dorsey source: ‘Everyone at Twitter hates him now’ They blame him for wooing Elon Musk. Because Musk… Read more.
