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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Musk's test for free speech: "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? And if that is the case then we have free speech." — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Musk says he wants Twitter to open-source its algorithm so that users can see when (and by implication, why) the platform takes action on their content. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Musk is framing his offer to buy Twitter in the same "civilizational" terms that he describes Tesla's mission -- "This is not a way to make money .... having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization." — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@Eleanor_S_Tyler This is a different interview. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

So... is Elon running behind? — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @Cat_Zakrzewski: Exclusive: House lawmakers launched an investigation of the face-scan contractor https://t.co/SsGYBGS5Wz. Earlier today… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @TEDchris: OK, we're opening up the @elonmusk interview live. Plus another major surprise. Tune in at 9.45am US Pacific Time. https://t… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Seems notable that while Elon says his offer is a 38% premium over the day his Twitter investment was announced, his offer of $54.20 a share is 26% lower than Twitter's 52-week high of $73.34 following a strong earnings report https://t.co/UbOLSOrwrA https://t.co/0ruj0yEjH3 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Musk’s SEC filing proposing to take Twitter private: https://t.co/3u81wWLSbe https://t.co/5C1ZywXQAD — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Just in: Elon Musk offers to buy all of Twitter, saying in an SEC filing that if his offer of $54.20 per share is rejected, “I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.” https://t.co/RPRvjYmyDu — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @snlyngaas: FBI and international partners seize control of popular hacking forum: https://t.co/GlVLCZMOxf — PolitiTweet.org

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It's an argument Apple has been making for years, but Cook's speech shows how Apple is bringing out its heaviest hitters in opposing the idea amid regulatory proposals worldwide. — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple's Tim Cook warns of "unintended consequences" of US and European legislation to force open app stores, saying in a speech at IAPP that letting iPhones install apps from non-Apple sources endangers privacy and security: https://t.co/FM3yN0D7mp — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Hahaha of course the one thing the social tab in Halo Infinite does NOT do is let you send an invite to a rando you just played a round with. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

I'm old enough to remember the moral panic about whether millennials were ever going to buy homes like their forebears did. Today we know millennials are actually really, really interested in owning, but there's no supply because investors https://t.co/papWpurU17 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Watching the Musk news cycle last week reminded me of covering Congress, where there's often lots of running around and appearance of forward motion, but then at the last minute it all breaks down and the next morning you wake up wondering whether any of it happened at all. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Twitter is evidently determined to drown out every other news cycle this week — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @brianstelter: Twitter "will no longer amplify or recommend Russian government accounts on its platform, bringing its stance on Kremlin-… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

"Trump has privately fumed about the app’s slow rollout and has mused about joining other platforms such as Gettr.... Nunes has worked to install his own people atop the troubled company." Great details from @drewharwell & @jdawsey1 https://t.co/X0hL9QFiE4 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Twitter also gets to benefit from Elon's legions of fans, whom he can mobilize on the company's behalf with a single tweet. Loyal to Elon, loyal to Twitter by the transitive property. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Musk is basically doing the reverse-Thiel: He'll now be close enough to Twitter to speak for it but independent enough where his wildest utterances will still be "Elon being Elon." TL;DR Musk can pick fights with Twitter's enemies that Twitter can't be seen going after. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

It does appear that Truth Social did do some outreach, though: the mod team behind r/wallstreetbets said the app creators notified them of the account in their name and offered to let WSB take it over. WSB declined. https://t.co/Ihf9hDA701 https://t.co/aSFhNGQNeN — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@NFL We asked the NFL if it was aware of Truth Social's apparent practice of creating bot accounts for major brands and setting them up to tweet unaffiliated content. They said the NFL-branded account does not represent the league and declined to say more. https://t.co/Ihf9hDA701 https://t.co/pKTJZS1X20 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Here's what you see when you visit @NFL on Truth Social, for example. The account posts links to ESPN, not NFL original content, and it's labeled as a bot. Tapping on "BOT" brings up a little notification that says it's really just an RSS aggregation feed. https://t.co/qTSpnFBnPw — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

One of Truth Social's more interesting tactics has been to create accounts for the NFL, NASA, NASCAR and even r/wallstreetbets. But they don't seem to be linked to those organizations. Instead, they appear to be bots reposting unaffiliated RSS content. https://t.co/Ihf9hDA701 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

One of Truth Social's more interesting tactics has been to create accounts under the names and logos of well-known entities like the NFL, NASCAR, NASA and even r/wallstreetbets. The app then encourages users to follow those official-sounding accounts. https://t.co/Ihf9hDA701 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Despite promises Truth Social would be "fully operational" at the end of March, Trump's social media app appears to be behind schedule and struggling to get off the ground. https://t.co/Ihf9hDA701 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

"Cybersecurity researchers suspect that some of the hackers sending the forged requests are minors located in the U.K. and the U.S. One of the minors is also believed to be the mastermind behind the cybercrime group Lapsus$" 😳 This season's writers made the universe v. small… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

DOJ is ramping up an antitrust probe into Google Maps, per @dibartz https://t.co/Pw0JyD5OYy https://t.co/gQPtcYu8wC — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @TaylorLorenz: SCOOP: Meta is paying Targeted Victory, one of the biggest Republican consulting firms, to quietly orchestrate a nationwi… — PolitiTweet.org