Elon Musk ‘Vehemently’ Opposed Trump’s Twitter Ban: Report
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:22 pm
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Elon Musk ‘Vehemently’ Opposed Trump’s Twitter Ban: Report
Billionaire’s purchase of the social media platform has been heralded by right-leaning commentators as a rebirth of free speech rights online
Elon Musk walks from the the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Monday, July 12, 2021. Musk took to a witness stand Monday to defend his company's 2016 acquisition of a troubled company called SolarCity against a shareholder lawsuit that claims he's to blame for a deal that was rife with conflicts of interest and never delivered the profits he had promised.
The Wall Street Journal on Friday dug into the circumstances of Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter, as well as those who had his ear and may have convinced him to go through with the move.
Among them are billionaire GOP donor Peter Thiel and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Dorsey made it known to Musk that the social media site should have private ownership, according to people familiar with the matter. (Twitter was privately owned for its first seven years of existence.) Dorsey resigned last November, having faced pressure from the board to do so due to investors’ concerns about him running both Twitter and Square Inc. Before his departure, he and Musk communicated regularly — including via direct messages on Twitter.
Elon Musk ‘Vehemently’ Opposed Trump’s Twitter Ban: Report
Billionaire’s purchase of the social media platform has been heralded by right-leaning commentators as a rebirth of free speech rights online
Elon Musk walks from the the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Monday, July 12, 2021. Musk took to a witness stand Monday to defend his company's 2016 acquisition of a troubled company called SolarCity against a shareholder lawsuit that claims he's to blame for a deal that was rife with conflicts of interest and never delivered the profits he had promised.
The Wall Street Journal on Friday dug into the circumstances of Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter, as well as those who had his ear and may have convinced him to go through with the move.
Among them are billionaire GOP donor Peter Thiel and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Dorsey made it known to Musk that the social media site should have private ownership, according to people familiar with the matter. (Twitter was privately owned for its first seven years of existence.) Dorsey resigned last November, having faced pressure from the board to do so due to investors’ concerns about him running both Twitter and Square Inc. Before his departure, he and Musk communicated regularly — including via direct messages on Twitter.