Elon Musk has completed the Takeover of Twitter. His first immediate actions have been:
Firing the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal
Firing the CFO, Ned Segal
Firing the General Counsel of Twitter, Sean Edgett
Firing Vijaya Gadde, Head of “Legal, Policy and Trust” at Twitter
The CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, and Vijaya Gadde have been escorted out of Twitter headquarters.
Vijaya Gadde was the deranged leftist who deleted the account of President Trump on January 8, 2021 (and deleted the Twitter account of yours truly on November 16, 2020…)
I would say it is a good start. Let’s see what happens in the next weeks…
By the way: the salary of Vijaya Gadde at Twitter was $17 million/year!
Elon Musk celebrated his acquisition on Twitter by tweeting “the bird is freed”. Musk describes himself as a “Free Speech Absolutist”.
In March 2022, he wrote that Twitter is a de-facto digital public town square, by tweeting:
“Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.”
This is an important statement. We’ll see if Elon Musk will act on Twitter consistently with his words.
His first actions should be:
restore the Twitter account of President Trump,
hire a New Management which adheres 100% to Free Speech principles,
restore the Twitter accounts of all the Conservatives and Trump supporters who have been arbitrarily an unjustly deleted by the deranged leftist Vijaya Gadde.
What do you think? Did you have an account on Twitter that was unjustly suspended/deleted?
What will happen now to Twitter? Will it change completely? Will Twitter finally become a True “Free Speech Public Town Square”, as Elon Musk promised?
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Good luck to Elon. If I were Trump I would not go back on Twitter, he has his own social media platform. I think he stated that before. I am trusting Elon yet, he seems to be a globalist.
Hi Angela! Well, I'm very troubled by the fact that the guy who is doing the censorship and shadowbanning on Truth Social is a communist Chinese in San Francisco (Kevin Guo - HIVE) - you know this! I wonder if Trump knows it.
By the way: Trump is not the owner of Truth Social: he has a contract to post on that platform. The owner of Truth Social is a guy named Patrick Orlando (DWAC).
Trump said he will not go back on Twitter, even if Musk reinstates his account. We'll see.
Trump has 4 million followers on Truth (if I'm correct), and he had 88 million followers on Twitter. I wonder if he prefers to have 4 million followers, or 88 million...
I'm not a fan of Elon Musk, I will evaluate what he does in practice as owner of Twitter.
Truth Social is not what I expected it to be: it has been a big disappointment: the "Waiting queues", the insane 7500 followers limit, the even more insane blocking of VPN (VPN's protect from hackers and bad actors) - are they collecting and selling our private data, or they want our computers to be hacked by bad actors? or both?
I had high hopes for Truth Social and after many of us signed up early & encouraged those we follow to sign up & we followed each other like on every other platform and then after many of us had followed a lot more than 7500 they slapped the ban on us!
Now I cannot follow many of my own family members & friends unless I spend hours every night unfollowing friends & followers that I don’t want to unfollow until I get below their stupid limit.
I won’t do that so I’m glad I kept my GETTR & Gab accounts, but honestly I’d like to have my Twitter account back, especially if free speech is allowed.
I followed you on Twitter and later on Gab. It would be helpful if you were active on Gab. I was permanently banned from Twitter, no prior offense, no warning. I had retweeted Sidney Powell. The tweet was an article about election fraud and the Stolen Election. That was during the January Purge of 21. I will not go back. Elon is entertaining but not an individual to be relied upon or trusted. He believes in AI, which I’m sure you are aware, is part of the trans humanist ideology. This aligns him with the WEF and their evil plan for the world. This is NOT supposition. One only has to listen, to the WEF creeps give their trans humanist speeches. The arrogance of telling the world they want us dead, yet very few reactions to their EVIL statements! They should be banned from the USA, along with George Soros, another evil creep! Thank you, for the in-depth articles, to assist in educating those willing to enrich their knowledge.
GAB has treated me very badly: it censored my posts, and shadowbanned me - much worse than Twitter ever did. So I stopped posting on GAB many months ago. My "engagement rate" on GAB was miserable. Same miserable "engagement rate" on GETTR. This is Lack of Respect towards users who post Quality Content.
By the way: GAB hired a Facebook guy as CTO! (on Nov 15, 2020) - a guy named Fosco Marotto (IIRC). GETTR is owned by a Chinese guy (Miles Guo Wengui).
About Elon Musk: it is not a matter of trust, but of evaluating what the guy will do as owner of Twitter. I will watch and evaluate his actions. He promised to transform Twitter into a Free Speech platform: we'll see if he does in practice.
I do not think Musk is a globalist, since the deranged leftists have been attacking him violently for months. But we'll see. I'm not a fan of Elon Musk, I am a Free Thinker who evaluates practical actions.
I, truly, hope you do not believe I was criticizing you. I had heard all you mentioned above, and it is true. I, only, use Gab for news in the same manner I used Twitter, so I do not have an engagement rate. I, honestly, didn’t want to be one of those people who deserted Gab, after being purged from Twitter. In regards to Musk, I will reserve judgement. His firing of the execs seems to be a step in the right direction.
I’m not going to lie, I am tempted to return to Twitter, purely for the expanded amount of news available to me there. I enjoy Gab to a point, but there is too much hate and misinformation. Although, it goes hand in hand with free speech, I prefer not to wade through all of it to keep up with the news.
Why do you suppose you were Shadowbanned on Gab, if you do not mind my asking?
I was not thinking even for one moment that you were criticizing me, Leslie. I just wanted to explain a few things about GAB.
I suspect that the CTO of GAB (the Facebook guy) is a mole of Zuckerberg/Soros/CIA/FBI. And I know he meddled heavily since March 2021. I think he did not like my posts with the Real Results of the Elections, and played hard to shadowban me (on behalf of the conspirators).
On Twitter I had 72 million views/month, and each of my tweets had 3,000 likes and 2,000 retweets; some tweets reached 29,000 likes and 22,000 retweets (all in spite of the shadowbanning) - so I had quite a good "engagement rate" on Twitter.
Makes sense. If Torba is desirous of being completely independent of Big Tech, why would he hire FM? I’ve often wondered his reasoning for inviting such a character on board a company he touts as above the reach of Silicon Valley et al. (It seems akin to inviting the fox into the hen house) I am, of course, no expert on any of this, but I am curious about the inner workings. I learn by picking the brains of those more knowledgeable than I. Thank you, for answering my questions. It is much appreciated!
Why hire a Facebook guy at GAB? In the powerful CTO position?
As you say: "it's like inviting the fox into the hen house".
I had been active on GAB from November 2020 to Sept. 2021. I had been writing a lot on GAB about the Full Forensic Audit in Arizona (Maricopa County).
* * *
I noticed a BIG change on GAB around mid-March 2021 (for the worse): engagement rate fell off the cliff. Basically we were silenced worse than on Twitter.
What happened?
and why?
I suspect that Andrew Torba secretly sold GAB to either Zuckerberg (or to George Soros) in March 2021.
* * *
We need to remark that: in March 2021 there was no GETTR, no Parler, no Truth Social. So, GAB was the only alternative platform to Twitter and Facebook. Neutralizing GAB meant neutralizing the only alternative to the Leftist Propaganda.
I’m glad that Musk has bought Twitter & fired the top anti-free speech communists of Twitter.
I hope he eventually fires everyone who doesn’t believe in our constitutional right of free speech.
I also hope that Musk will restore hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters banned accounts that the communists that he fired banned us for political bias.
I was banned on the same day President Trump was, along with most Trump supporters around the same time.
I don’t trust him. But I’ll take him for now until he betrays us. 2nd smartest guy in the world substack makes a compelling case against him as a CIA con man whose grandfather was the founder of the Technocracy party in Canada before he had to flee to South Africa.
Good luck to Elon. If I were Trump I would not go back on Twitter, he has his own social media platform. I think he stated that before. I am trusting Elon yet, he seems to be a globalist.
Hi Angela! Well, I'm very troubled by the fact that the guy who is doing the censorship and shadowbanning on Truth Social is a communist Chinese in San Francisco (Kevin Guo - HIVE) - you know this! I wonder if Trump knows it.
By the way: Trump is not the owner of Truth Social: he has a contract to post on that platform. The owner of Truth Social is a guy named Patrick Orlando (DWAC).
Trump said he will not go back on Twitter, even if Musk reinstates his account. We'll see.
Trump has 4 million followers on Truth (if I'm correct), and he had 88 million followers on Twitter. I wonder if he prefers to have 4 million followers, or 88 million...
I'm not a fan of Elon Musk, I will evaluate what he does in practice as owner of Twitter.
Truth Social is not what I expected it to be: it has been a big disappointment: the "Waiting queues", the insane 7500 followers limit, the even more insane blocking of VPN (VPN's protect from hackers and bad actors) - are they collecting and selling our private data, or they want our computers to be hacked by bad actors? or both?
I agree with everything you said here Greg.
I had high hopes for Truth Social and after many of us signed up early & encouraged those we follow to sign up & we followed each other like on every other platform and then after many of us had followed a lot more than 7500 they slapped the ban on us!
Now I cannot follow many of my own family members & friends unless I spend hours every night unfollowing friends & followers that I don’t want to unfollow until I get below their stupid limit.
I won’t do that so I’m glad I kept my GETTR & Gab accounts, but honestly I’d like to have my Twitter account back, especially if free speech is allowed.
Yes, I hope Elon Musk will reinstate ALL our Twitter accounts!
Greg,
I followed you on Twitter and later on Gab. It would be helpful if you were active on Gab. I was permanently banned from Twitter, no prior offense, no warning. I had retweeted Sidney Powell. The tweet was an article about election fraud and the Stolen Election. That was during the January Purge of 21. I will not go back. Elon is entertaining but not an individual to be relied upon or trusted. He believes in AI, which I’m sure you are aware, is part of the trans humanist ideology. This aligns him with the WEF and their evil plan for the world. This is NOT supposition. One only has to listen, to the WEF creeps give their trans humanist speeches. The arrogance of telling the world they want us dead, yet very few reactions to their EVIL statements! They should be banned from the USA, along with George Soros, another evil creep! Thank you, for the in-depth articles, to assist in educating those willing to enrich their knowledge.
Hi Leslie!
GAB has treated me very badly: it censored my posts, and shadowbanned me - much worse than Twitter ever did. So I stopped posting on GAB many months ago. My "engagement rate" on GAB was miserable. Same miserable "engagement rate" on GETTR. This is Lack of Respect towards users who post Quality Content.
By the way: GAB hired a Facebook guy as CTO! (on Nov 15, 2020) - a guy named Fosco Marotto (IIRC). GETTR is owned by a Chinese guy (Miles Guo Wengui).
About Elon Musk: it is not a matter of trust, but of evaluating what the guy will do as owner of Twitter. I will watch and evaluate his actions. He promised to transform Twitter into a Free Speech platform: we'll see if he does in practice.
I do not think Musk is a globalist, since the deranged leftists have been attacking him violently for months. But we'll see. I'm not a fan of Elon Musk, I am a Free Thinker who evaluates practical actions.
Greg,
I, truly, hope you do not believe I was criticizing you. I had heard all you mentioned above, and it is true. I, only, use Gab for news in the same manner I used Twitter, so I do not have an engagement rate. I, honestly, didn’t want to be one of those people who deserted Gab, after being purged from Twitter. In regards to Musk, I will reserve judgement. His firing of the execs seems to be a step in the right direction.
I’m not going to lie, I am tempted to return to Twitter, purely for the expanded amount of news available to me there. I enjoy Gab to a point, but there is too much hate and misinformation. Although, it goes hand in hand with free speech, I prefer not to wade through all of it to keep up with the news.
Why do you suppose you were Shadowbanned on Gab, if you do not mind my asking?
I was not thinking even for one moment that you were criticizing me, Leslie. I just wanted to explain a few things about GAB.
I suspect that the CTO of GAB (the Facebook guy) is a mole of Zuckerberg/Soros/CIA/FBI. And I know he meddled heavily since March 2021. I think he did not like my posts with the Real Results of the Elections, and played hard to shadowban me (on behalf of the conspirators).
On Twitter I had 72 million views/month, and each of my tweets had 3,000 likes and 2,000 retweets; some tweets reached 29,000 likes and 22,000 retweets (all in spite of the shadowbanning) - so I had quite a good "engagement rate" on Twitter.
Screenshots of Twitter Analytics here: https://payhip.com/GregRubini/author
Having a good "engagement rate" is important if you post quality content.
"Musk firing the Twitter execs seems to be a step in the right direction" >> exactly!
Makes sense. If Torba is desirous of being completely independent of Big Tech, why would he hire FM? I’ve often wondered his reasoning for inviting such a character on board a company he touts as above the reach of Silicon Valley et al. (It seems akin to inviting the fox into the hen house) I am, of course, no expert on any of this, but I am curious about the inner workings. I learn by picking the brains of those more knowledgeable than I. Thank you, for answering my questions. It is much appreciated!
Exactly! Spot on, Leslie.
Why hire a Facebook guy at GAB? In the powerful CTO position?
As you say: "it's like inviting the fox into the hen house".
I had been active on GAB from November 2020 to Sept. 2021. I had been writing a lot on GAB about the Full Forensic Audit in Arizona (Maricopa County).
* * *
I noticed a BIG change on GAB around mid-March 2021 (for the worse): engagement rate fell off the cliff. Basically we were silenced worse than on Twitter.
What happened?
and why?
I suspect that Andrew Torba secretly sold GAB to either Zuckerberg (or to George Soros) in March 2021.
* * *
We need to remark that: in March 2021 there was no GETTR, no Parler, no Truth Social. So, GAB was the only alternative platform to Twitter and Facebook. Neutralizing GAB meant neutralizing the only alternative to the Leftist Propaganda.
Wow! You think? How disappointing, if true. (The secret sale)
As it should be!
Hi Greg,
I’m glad that Musk has bought Twitter & fired the top anti-free speech communists of Twitter.
I hope he eventually fires everyone who doesn’t believe in our constitutional right of free speech.
I also hope that Musk will restore hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters banned accounts that the communists that he fired banned us for political bias.
I was banned on the same day President Trump was, along with most Trump supporters around the same time.
Guess we’ll see what happens as time goes on.
Bless you my friend.
Hi Sheila! I have the same hopes you have, about Twitter.
Yes, it is a good start
Greg, are going back on Twitter?
I don’t trust him. But I’ll take him for now until he betrays us. 2nd smartest guy in the world substack makes a compelling case against him as a CIA con man whose grandfather was the founder of the Technocracy party in Canada before he had to flee to South Africa.