It is well-known that the world’s richest particular person, Elon Musk, has a number of the world’s worst Twitter takes. What a coincidence, then, that he’s making an attempt to purchase the platform within the title of “freedom of speech.”
Since becoming a member of Twitter in 2009, the Tesla CEO’s tweets have gotten him in hassle a number of occasions. That’s hassle in each an official capability with the courts, in addition to within the courtroom of public opinion. However, he persists in tweeting out really terrible takes, and he actually needs to verify he’ll have the ability to hold doing so: Musk is providing Twitter $41 billion to take the general public firm non-public below his management.
Lest Twitter neglect simply who’s providing himself up as lord and savior, Musk has repeatedly proven that he has unhealthy judgment, and a foul humorousness. That is not an excellent mixture for anybody to have, not to mention a tech magnate with an viewers of 82.three million followers who’s in control of a number of the world’s most dear firms. Musk has ended up deleting most of his egregious tweets, however that did not cease them from impacting his shareholders and devotees. He takes this Twitter affect so significantly that he has stated he writes “no less than” half of his tweets from the bathroom.
Yep, that checks out. Listed below are Elon Musk’s worst tweets, ranked.
8. All his Tesla inventory manipulation bullsh*t
Musk has tweeted his opinions and (pretend) information about Tesla in ways in which have affected the inventory worth a number of occasions. The federal government has, at occasions, discovered this conduct “troublesome,” and at different occasions, unlawful. He is been fined by the SEC and even needed to step down as Tesla chairman in consequence.
We’re not too fussed concerning the fluctuations of Tesla inventory, however the tweets are terrible in that they present how little regard Musk has for the regulation. Hope the 420 joke was value it!
7. The time he lashed out on the FAA for delaying his starship launch
Musk known as the regulatory physique making certain the protection of house flight “basically damaged” after it pressured SpaceX to delay a launch. Later, The Verge reported that SpaceX had already ignored no less than two security warnings from the company. That is a mood tantrum with probably disastrous penalties.
6. When he gave Kanye West’s presidential run his ‘full assist’
In an election the place the results had been probably 4 extra years of Donald Trump, rapper Kanye West threw his hat into the ring shortly earlier than folks had been about to go to the polls. West had already met with Donald Trump and shared racist views at that time. After West elaborated on a few of his positions (together with calling Deliberate Parenthood a corporation run by white supremacists), Musk stated um truly, I believe now we have extra variations than I assumed, and retracted the assist.
Legally, bosses are usually not alleged to intrude with employees’ selections on whether or not or to not kind a union. So, after all, after Tesla fired an worker who was participating in office organizing, Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla employees had been completely allowed to kind a union — however do not they know the way unhealthy unions can be for them? The Nationwide Labor Relations Board finally ordered Musk to take down the tweet.
Bear in mind when a bunch of Thai kids had been trapped in a cave? Naturally, that led to an Elon Musk Twitter scandal. Cave rescuer Vernon Unsworth claimed Musk’s provides to assist had been a PR stunt. Musk reacted calmly and coolly by hiring a personal investigator (with a legal document) to look into Unsworth, baselessly accusing Unsworth of being a pedophile to BuzzFeed Information, and tweeting that Unsworth was a “pedo man.”
Unsworth sued for defamation, however Musk finally gained the correct to insult folks on-line with a authorized protection that “pedo man” was only a generic insult, not a literal accusation.
Elon Musk managed to show he by no means took an HR office harassment coaching with an insulting joke about ladies’s math skills and boobs.
Would not you simply like to be a feminine Tesla or SpaceX worker with a boss like that?
The coronavirus pandemic has not been a good time for Musk’s Twitter takes. Initially of the pandemic, he wrongly predicted that it was no huge deal, after which additionally unfold pandemic misinformation about testing when he ended up contracting Covid.
He additionally determined to defy authorities security legal guidelines, and tweeted about opening Tesla again up for enterprise. Most lately, he criticized the Canadian authorities’s security measures that impressed the trucker boycott by utilizing a Hitler meme. How may one man, with a lot energy, get this one so insultingly, dangerously mistaken.
1. Making an attempt to purchase Twitter… by way of tweet
Elon Musk has styled himself a free speech warrior, and is making an attempt to go on a campaign within the title of free speech (that no one needs) by shopping for Twitter itself.
Musk posted a Twitter ballot that allowed him to conclude that Twitter has a free speech drawback. He then acquired a majority stake within the firm in a manner that consultants say illegally netted him $156 million by not correctly disclosing his inventory purchases.
After he didn’t find yourself getting on the Twitter board, Musk made a suggestion to purchase Twitter — which he made on Twitter itself. All this has accomplished is put Musk within the highlight, and fire up the non-existent controversy round social media moderation.
Actually, the person’s hubris is aware of no bounds.
