As far as we know, the deal isn’t closed yet, but Elon Musk has updated his personal twitter account With a new bio on Wednesday that suggests it’s finally going to close its $44 billion acquisition of the site, it’s still been trying to get out of it for months.
Musk, the world’s richest man, now calls himself “Chief Tweet” and lists his location as “Twitter Headquarters.” You can see what it looks like above.
Twitter’s purchase of the Tesla CEO is set to close on Friday, months after Musk repeatedly tried to back away from the deal, citing unproven allegations of membership fraud by the social media company. Twitter sued to force Musk to honor the agreement, which Musk fought for months until early October, when he offered to buy it at the original offer — if Twitter would drop the lawsuit first.
To clear up the misconceptions, Twitter did not agree to those terms. The company said only that it intended to look closely at the deal, and did not drop the lawsuit. Less than 2 days later, Musk – whoever may have believed that was the plan – asked the trial judge to drop the case, claiming that Twitter was refusing to “take yes to answers”. . The judge didn’t buy that argument, but he stalled the legal process and ordered Musk to close the deal by October 28, otherwise the trial would go ahead.
Which brings us to Wednesday. Before changing his Twitter bio, Musk released a video of himself entering Twitter HQ while invoking a really dumb sentence — just go here and see for yourself. So it looks like Musk finally decided to take his yes to answer. Of course, as mentioned above, Musk has repeatedly tried to walk out of the deal, so we suggest taking all this with a grain of salt until a formal announcement is made.
Assuming the deal is done, it’s likely to be a very different place once Twitter takes over. he already said he wants to undo The company’s content moderation policies, which were enacted gradually as Twitter became a hotbed of violent threats, harassment, propaganda and even election manipulation, during 2010.
musk Wants to allow Donald Trump to return to Twitter too The disgraced former president was removed from Twitter after he used it to incite a January 6, 2021 coup attempt by spreading lies about the 2020 election.
Worse, according to The Washington Post, Musk plans to sabotage Twitter by firing 75% of its employees. This would certainly be a major blow to the company’s ability to moderate content and protect user data.
Before the pandemic era, it was almost a stock cliché for people on Twitter to tag former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, begging him to “remove Nazis from Twitter,” as the request was often phrased. that request fell on deaf earsUntil the events of 2020 and 2021 forced Twitter’s hand. Dorsey resigns as CEO A year ago – but it looks like his influence will remain on the new owner.