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| − | [[File:Agrawai_tweet.PNG|right|160px|thumb|Parag - New chief at Twitter in 2021<ref>Alexander Hall, [https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/alexander-hall/2021/11/29/bad-worse-conservatives-slam-incoming-leftist-twitter From Bad to Worse! Conservatives SLAM Incoming Leftist Twitter CEO], News Busters, Nov 29, 2021</ref>]] Musk immediately fired its top management, and is expected to fire much of its [[liberal]] workforce too. Musk suspects that he was lied to by underestimates of the number of sham accounts. | + | [[File:Agrawai_tweet.PNG|right|160px|thumb|Parag - New chief at Twitter in 2021<ref>Alexander Hall, [https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/alexander-hall/2021/11/29/bad-worse-conservatives-slam-incoming-leftist-twitter From Bad to Worse! Conservatives SLAM Incoming Leftist Twitter CEO], News Busters, Nov 29, 2021</ref>]] |
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| | [[File:Musk and Rubin.jpg|thumb|NYT bought its Twitter followers to fake influence]] | | [[File:Musk and Rubin.jpg|thumb|NYT bought its Twitter followers to fake influence]] |
| − | '''Twitter, Inc.''' is a [[Big Tech]] social networking tool, acquired by [[Elon Musk]] on October 27, 2022, after years of [[liberal censorship]] by [[Leftists]] in [[San Francisco]] ([[Twitter#Sale to Elon Musk|see below]]). | + | '''Twitter, Inc.''' is a [[Big Tech]] social networking tool, acquired by [[Elon Musk]] on October 27, 2022, after years of [[liberal censorship]] by [[Leftists]] in [[San Francisco]] ([[Twitter#Sale to Elon Musk|see below]]). Musk immediately fired its top management, and is expected to fire much of its [[liberal]] workforce too. Musk suspects that he was lied to by underestimates of the number of sham accounts. |
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| | Twitter was founded in 2006<ref>https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854</ref> and emerged as a new medium of online [[news]] distribution that became infested by [[troll]]s and fake accounts. The claimed numbers of followers of [[liberal]] figures on it are falsely inflated, such that one audit in 2022 concluded that nearly half of [[Joe Biden]]’s Twitter followers are fake.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/18/audit-reveals-almost-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake/</ref> | | Twitter was founded in 2006<ref>https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854</ref> and emerged as a new medium of online [[news]] distribution that became infested by [[troll]]s and fake accounts. The claimed numbers of followers of [[liberal]] figures on it are falsely inflated, such that one audit in 2022 concluded that nearly half of [[Joe Biden]]’s Twitter followers are fake.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/18/audit-reveals-almost-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake/</ref> |