![]() Is this really the type of personality that the world needs taking over one of the world’s most important platforms for political discourse?īefore that was the highly publicised rescue of a youth soccer team from a cave in Thailand, when Musk called one of the expert rescuers a ‘ pedo guy’ - short for ‘pedophile’ - because that expert rejected Musk’s wacky rescue proposal, resulting in a $190 million defamation lawsuit. The complaint alleges that Tesla has segregated black workers into areas referred to as ‘the plantation’ and ‘the slave ship,’ and that they were given the most difficult jobs and denied equal promotion and pay opportunities. Just three months ago, California officials filed a lawsuit against Tesla over alleged racial discrimination at its factory, following hundreds of complaints about vile treatment of black workers. Two months later, he reopened his Tesla factory in violation of the state’s lockdown order, and ordered his 10,000 employees back to work. ![]() ![]() Musk also ignored the Covid-19 concerns of workers in his Tesla factory in California, and defied state authorities by refusing to shut down his auto plant, calling state and local safety requirements ‘fascist ’ in late March 2020 he tweeted that there would probably be ‘ close to zero new cases in US’ by the end of April. Throughout the pandemic, Musk has been a gushing firehose of Covid-19 disinformation, tweeting to his 90 million followers dangerously erroneous health advice. Let us briefly recount just a few of Musk’s past bonehead moves. Reactions have ranged from people condemning Musk as a juvenile enfant terrible who is unfit to manage this influential platform, to others such as one New York Times columnist looking forward to how Musk might ‘improve’ the free speech snakepit of Twitter.Ĭertainly Musk’s past behaviours and brand of ‘cowboy capitalism’ give one pause over the thought of him controlling this global publisher of the digital age. Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to purchase Twitter and turn it back into a private company has garnered screaming headlines and thrown the internet world into a tizzy.
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