Nope. But he seemed afraid if it, whatever it was. Maybe something that would lead to jail instead of financial losses? That would make sense I guess.
The number everyone threw around was that $1 billion penalty he agreed to. People here on HN said it would never be that high.
$1 billion seems cheap compared to what he’s lost by now.
The only other explanation that makes sense to me is he was so far down the conspiracy rabbit hole he was willing to lose billions to prove an imaginary conspiracy because… it would make him more famous and popular?
I’d love to know the truth of all of this some day.
I don’t think that the FBI recommending that Twitter look into posts that both break Twitter rules and were suspected of being generated by foreign operatives counts as illegal collusion.
I also don’t think Twitter was the deciding factor in Biden winning, and the election certainly wasn’t rigged.
“Twitter was used to rig an election” is just another instances of Twitter users not realising that nobody outside of Twitter cares about it. Musk is very evidently far from immune to this.
Media outlets will share what some famous people say on Twitter. Let’s not conflate that with Twitter mattering. It’s just a press release website.
If we want to look at social networks that actually decide elections, let’s look at Facebook.
FBI was actively monitoring a place identified as being a primary location for foreign operatives to influence our election.
They met weekly with Twitter during the time leading up to election when it was most critical that communication was open and often.
I don’t see a problem with that. Now, if FBI made threats or used other underhanded tactics to force Twitter to censor the speech of Americans, I would see an issue. I’ve seen nothing to indicate that.
No, he spent the money so people would think that’s what he’s doing. All we need to know he’s not actually doing this is to see that his handpick journalists are ignoring evidence of the Trump White House asking Twitter to remove posts.
If the FBI flagging posts to be removed is government weaponization of Twitter, then the White House doing the same must be as well, to an even more egregious degree. And yet crickets from Musk.
If he’s only releasing and reacting to one side, then we must conclude the entire “Twitter Files” is simply a right wing, partisan messaging campaign.
The white house wasn't even doing the same. The fbi was pointing out tweets that violated Twitter's rules and suggesting that they evaluate them but that it was totally up to Twitter about what to do. The white house was pointing out tweets that embarrassed or otherwise hurt Trump's feelings and demanding that Twitter take them down
James Baker worked for the DOJ and FBI directly before becoming high up counsel at Twitter. He was fired for selectively edited the documents and disclosures that became the Twitter Files.
