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NEW: From antisemitic content to personal vendettas, @ElonMusk's erratic management has exposed Twitter to serious legal challenges. Read my latest deep dive into how Musk is steering Twitter into a field of icebergs: maxburns.substack.com/p/at-twitters-

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Good piece from

about Musk what's happening on this site.

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NEW: From antisemitic content to personal vendettas, @ElonMusk's erratic management has exposed Twitter to serious legal challenges. Read my latest deep dive into how Musk is steering Twitter into a field of icebergs: maxburns.substack.com/p/at-twitters-

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This is a really substantive deep dive into the issues Elon Musk is creating for Twitter and the legal battles to follow. Take a read, my friend

is spot on 👇🏾

At Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone

Elon Musk is kicking up legal trouble from California to Germany. Those lawsuits will be devastating for a company still struggling to survive.

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"Twitter now speaks to a fraction of its former global audience — and the far-right, white nationalist voices it’s amplifying are driving many of the remaining holdouts off the site for good. That's bad news."

At Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone

Elon Musk is kicking up legal trouble from California to Germany. Those lawsuits will be devastating for a company still struggling to survive.

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"None of Musk’s chaos has been good for business. Advertising spend fell 71% in December and continues to track well below what Twitter needs to survive. Twitter’s Q4 revenue tanked by 35%."

At Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone

Elon Musk is kicking up legal trouble from California to Germany. Those lawsuits will be devastating for a company still struggling to survive.

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"Musk empowered senior executive Ella Irwin to violate Twitter's own company policies in order to carry out personal vendettas against accounts Musk viewed as his political enemies."

At Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone

Elon Musk is kicking up legal trouble from California to Germany. Those lawsuits will be devastating for a company still struggling to survive.

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"And in Washington, FTC regulators are bluntly asking Twitter if it even has the staff and infrastructure to comply with its ongoing federal consent decree."

At Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone

Elon Musk is kicking up legal trouble from California to Germany. Those lawsuits will be devastating for a company still struggling to survive.

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"One of the first teams to face mass layoffs after Musk’s takeover was the Trust and Safety team. He then went a step further and dissolved Twitter’s entire Trust and Safety Council"

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"The antisemitic garbage that now passes for “discourse” surged 61% increase in just the first two weeks of Musk’s Twitter leadership. Now a European anti-hate group is suing Musk for flagrantly breaching German law."

At Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone

Elon Musk is kicking up legal trouble from California to Germany. Those lawsuits will be devastating for a company still struggling to survive.

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NEW: From antisemitic content to personal vendettas,

@ElonMusk

's erratic management has exposed Twitter to serious legal challenges. Read my latest deep dive into how Musk is steering Twitter into a field of icebergs:

At Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone

Elon Musk is kicking up legal trouble from California to Germany. Those lawsuits will be devastating for a company still struggling to survive.

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Great writer here…someone snatch him up!

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With @NBCNewsTHINK closing its doors, I am actively searching for a new home for my political opinion writing. I've published progressive Democratic commentary and analysis in a wide variety of national media outlets, across a hugely diverse set of topics. Let's chat!

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Max is an incredibly thoughtful and timely commentator. He’s extremely knowledgeable about progressive politics. Any outlet would be lucky to have his insight —->

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Two Tesla employees say they were illegally fired for complaining about Elon Musk's tweets and...

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With @NBCNewsTHINK closing its doors, I am actively searching for a new home for my political opinion writing. I've published progressive Democratic commentary and analysis in a wide variety of national media outlets, across a hugely diverse set of topics. Let's chat!

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With

closing its doors, I am actively searching for a new home for my political opinion writing. I've published progressive Democratic commentary and analysis in a wide variety of national media outlets, across a hugely diverse set of topics. Let's chat!

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For those curious: YTD Performance BMW -15.3% Mercedes Benz Group -17.6% Honda -20.9% Toyota -26.8% GM -45.2% Ford -48.8% Netflix -51.1% PayPal -65.7% Meta -65.9% Tesla -68.8%

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Tesla has also begun firing employees who disagree with Musk's increasingly far-right tweeting habits. Similar claims have been made by SpaceX employees who were sacked after questioning Musk's Twitter usage.

businessinsider.com

One worker was told their discussions with other employees were an "attack" on Tesla, according to a filing with federal labor regulators.

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Facing layoffs, employee unrest and investor discontent over his preoccupation with Twitter, Elon Musk's $TSLA has stumbled nearly 10% today. Tesla is down nearly 70% for the year, far and away the biggest percentage loss of any major automaker.

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Here's some of Linette Lopez's latest reporting, on Tesla knowingly selling dangerous and faulty batteries.

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Tesla knew its Model S battery had a design flaw that could lead to leaks and, ultimately, fires...

In a rush to build the Model S, Tesla ignored the car's flawed battery cooling system design. And it's unclear when, if ever, the company fixed it.

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This isn't the first time Musk has fired a broadside at Lopez, either. When she was investigating allegations of misconduct at Tesla, Musk allegedly asked his team to hack the tech of one of her sources -- a Tesla employee.

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Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez was just suspended from Twitter for the mere act of *reporting on Elon Musk*. No one is even pretending she broke any Twitter rules. This is simply a case of being a good reporter who Musk really dislikes.

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Linette Lopez - Insider

Linette is a columnist at Business Insider who focuses her writing on the US politics and economics as well as international markets. She also conducts investigations into controversial companies —...

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Vox Populi Vox Do-Over

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Thanks for having me,

@NewsNation

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! A great chat on Elon Musk's latest limitations to his "free speech" approach.

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.@LelandVittert says we have now figured out where Twitter CEO Elon Musk draws the line on free speech, after he suspended a Twitter account that tracked his flights in real time. @themaxburns and @DanODonnellShow discuss Musk's latest action. #OnBalance

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“Sinema may consider herself a McCain-style maverick, but she’s increasingly looking like a political player out of her depth and in search of a constituency.”

Opinion | Sinema's an independent because both Democrats and Republicans don't like her

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The Arizona senator may consider herself a maverick, but she’s really a political player out of her depth and in search of a constituency.

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Well worth signing up! “If you’re tempted to shrug off the European Union because, well, it’s Europe after all, don’t be so hasty. These are the same people who levied a $5 billion fine against Google ... They are not screwing around”

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NEW from me for Substack: Elon Musk is having so much fun, he just can't be bothered to run Twitter. Now the entire company is on the brink of financial and legal implosion. My deep dive into Twitter's troubles: substack.com/inbox/post/905

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Hell of a read about the increasing and massive financial and legal troubles Twitter is finding itself in -- including the company not paying its rent at its SF HQ and blowing off regulators in the EU. Some genius Elon is turning out to be for all the world to see. 🙄

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NEW from me for Substack: Elon Musk is having so much fun, he just can't be bothered to run Twitter. Now the entire company is on the brink of financial and legal implosion. My deep dive into Twitter's troubles: substack.com/inbox/post/905

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good summary of the current shitshow, especially about the effects of the forced opt-in and how that will play in the EU. Fuck around and find out.

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NEW from me for Substack: Elon Musk is having so much fun, he just can't be bothered to run Twitter. Now the entire company is on the brink of financial and legal implosion. My deep dive into Twitter's troubles: substack.com/inbox/post/905

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Thanks for reading!

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Lindsay Beyerstein

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Clear and compelling summary of all the ways Musk is driving twitter into the ground: twitter.com/themaxburns/st…

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Thanks for reading!

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ryan cooper

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good piece from @themaxburns maxburns.substack.com/p/elons-twitte

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With no one left to speak truth to the Big Guy, Musk has soaked his brain in a constant stream of blind adulation and social media dopamine. Now it’s only a matter of time until the music stops and the adults turn the lights out.

Elon's Twitter Enters the Red Zone

Elon Musk is having so much fun, he just can't be bothered to run Twitter. Now the entire company is on the brink of financial and legal implosion.

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A Twitter without Europe (and European advertisers) is a Twitter rapidly circling the drain of financial insolvency. Plenty of Twitter employees know that — and they tried to warn Musk. Then they got fired.

Elon's Twitter Enters the Red Zone

Elon Musk is having so much fun, he just can't be bothered to run Twitter. Now the entire company is on the brink of financial and legal implosion.

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By stripping away users’ ability to decide their own safety and privacy settings, Musk is almost guaranteeing conflicts with every major government regulator in the developed world. substack.com/inbox/post/905

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Musk is playing a game beloved by the ultra-rich: he’s assuming (probably correctly) that vendors and landlords would rather negotiate with him for a fraction of their payments instead of writing off hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. substack.com/inbox/post/905

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NEW from me for Substack: Elon Musk is having so much fun, he just can't be bothered to run Twitter. Now the entire company is on the brink of financial and legal implosion. My deep dive into Twitter's troubles: substack.com/inbox/post/905

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This is, I think, my longest Substack piece by a fair stretch. But I had a LOT to break down.

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Wrote up a lengthy explainer on just how many ways Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of legal and financial implosion. Check it out tomorrow morning by subscribing for FREE to The Third Degree on Substack!