Leftist Washington Not Handling Twitter Takeover Well

They really do not like the notion of the peasants being able to post their Wrongthink thoughts without control from their betters

Washington gets increasingly freaked out by Twitter

Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter has left professional Washington amused, worried — and utterly at a loss on how to handle what was until last week the Beltway’s favorite fast-twitch communication platform.

“The Elon takeover is all people can talk about,” said Megan Schmidt, a media strategist at the communications firm Mission North with numerous Washington cybersecurity clients.

In two short weeks since taking over the company, Musk has tweeted a far-right conspiracy theory, fired half the staff, triggered the ire of the Federal Trade Commission and reportedly lost the top officials keeping the platform’s content safe and reliable.

Politico means the officials who determine what is and isn’t Wrongthink. Who suspend and block lots and lots of people who have not done anything wrong by written things against Official Leftist Dogma. I’ve seen them allow leftists who doxxed and/or threatened people to remain on the site.

Twitter’s underlying software is reportedly showing signs of showing signs of cracking for some users, without enough engineers to maintain it. Cybersecurity and privacy experts are worried that it’s becoming a “Wild West” when it comes to data breaches and vulnerability to hacking.

So far there hasn’t been a mass exodus — users in politics and media are watching and waiting, and Twitter has remained largely reliable as a real-time news platform. But Schmidt says she and her colleagues are trying to determine whether it’s safe for their clients to keep advertising, or even stay on Twitter at all.

Yes, it’s safe. All they’re doing is tweeting. They aren’t taking payments, they aren’t storing clients information. This is mostly just whining from Progressives (nice Fascism) that they can no longer control the narrative.

Several Washington communications veterans contacted by POLITICO said versions of the same thing: Twitter now needs to be treated with great caution by anyone concerned with their public image.

Image? For what? How so? Have they seen some of the content pre-Musk? There’s literally p0rnagraphy on there from some p0rn stars. And more.

“Whether it’s a politician, or candidate, or a business, they need a platform that has credibility and that is stable and aligns with their values,” said Sean Higgins, a veteran of the D.C. political communications scene and associate vice president at Precision Strategies. “So far, Twitter hasn’t demonstrated an ability to provide any of those things under Elon Musk’s leadership — and that’s a problem.”

And there it is: they’re upset that Twitter won’t be using it’s heavy hand to promote Leftists and reduce Republicans. I’ve heard that stealth-banning has significantly decreased. Leftists love their censorship and are losing their minds that they won’t have it anymore. They really had an unofficial version of net neutrality running on pre-Musk Twitter, just like they have with Google and Facebook.

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6 Responses to “Leftist Washington Not Handling Twitter Takeover Well”

  1. Elwood P. Dowd says:

    Once again, the American right falls in love with another billionaire who can “do no wrong”! LOFL.

    Your new billionaire stable genius is destroying your beloved twitter before your very eyes, and you blame others for his business incompetence. Perhaps, he can salvage it, perhaps not.

    “Pay $20/mo for verification, no $8, oops, nevermind, some people are using their right to free speech to mock me! Me!! This cannot stand!” How can he make money off twitter without advertising dollars and without destroying Tesla? Good luck.

    If he allows too much racism, porn, outright lies and hatred, advertisers bolt. Damn that free market!

    The article Teach linked talked about the recent tweet from a fake “verified” Eli Lilly account announcing that Lilly would no longer charge for insulin! The stock took a dive on such “news”. Freedom! What a cool prank!

    • drowningpuppies says:

      Amid all the jubilation and gloating by Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer and pals over the Democrats’ better-than-expected showing in the midterms comes a disturbing story that may explain something about how they won such a curious election.
      Biden’s second-biggest donor, cryptocurrency billionaire wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, a k a SBF, saw his business file for bankruptcy days after the election, but not before pumping $40 million into the Democratic Party to spend on “get-out-the-vote” and other shadowy ballot-harvesting mechanics for the midterms.

      The shambolic 30-year-old whiz kid, once said to have been worth $16 billion, had spent $10 million helping get Biden elected in 2020.

      https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/sam-bankman-fried-broke-crypto-bank-for-dems/

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  2. Professor Hale says:

    Safe and reliable? It’s Twitter, for Pete’s sake not your banking records.

  3. Jl says:

    Alternate headline: Leftist Washington not handling free speech well.

  4. H says:

    Yes of course our elites should control media unfettered by government
    Our elites know what is best for average Americans
    The Saudis now own the biggest refinery in the USA
    How could that go wrong?

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