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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]]). Musk immediately fired its top management, and is expected to fire much of its [[liberal]] workforce too. Musk suspects he was lied to by underestimates of sham accounts, but a lawsuit by [[Opposition to Donald Trump|Never-Trumpers]] in a hostile court forced Musk to buy Twitter.

'''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 he was lied to by underestimates of sham accounts, but a lawsuit by [[Opposition to Donald Trump|Never-Trumpers]] in a hostile court forced Musk to buy Twitter.

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 [[woke]] and neo-puritan [[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>

[[File:Twitter bird logo 2012.svg.png|left|160px]]

[[File:Twitter bird logo 2012.svg.png|left|160px]]

As a free microblogging [[website]], Twitter users can submit messages containing 140 characters or less to their followers, was co-founded by [[Jack Dorsey]] and Evan Williams. ''Twitter'' is a privately funded startup established by Obvious.com in [[San Francisco]], on March 21, 2006.<ref>[http://mashable.com/2009/03/21/happy-birthday-twitter/ Happy Birthday Twitter!] Mashable</ref><ref>[http://cellphones.about.com/od/textmessaging/a/twittertexting.htm Twitter: Free Microblogging Service Perhaps the Perfect Mobile Blogging Tool, About.com, August 16, 2008]</ref>  Under liberal control, official Twitter policy was supportive of anarcho-Marxism, was intolerant of dissidence (see [[liberal censorship]]), and lacked diversity of opinion. As of mid-2020 Twitter has enjoyed [[Section 230]] immunity from prosecution for its election interference and other abuses, as well as [[monopoly]] control. There has been widespread discontent over Twitter's abuses of the public trust under its previous liberal ownership.  It has been characterized as the "Wuhan wet market of ideas."<ref>https://youtu.be/DdYwUdRukV4</ref>

As a free microblogging [[website]], Twitter users can submit messages containing 140 characters or less to their followers, was co-founded by [[Jack Dorsey]] and Evan Williams. ''Twitter'' is a privately funded startup established by Obvious.com in [[San Francisco]], on March 21, 2006.<ref>[http://mashable.com/2009/03/21/happy-birthday-twitter/ Happy Birthday Twitter!] Mashable</ref><ref>[http://cellphones.about.com/od/textmessaging/a/twittertexting.htm Twitter: Free Microblogging Service Perhaps the Perfect Mobile Blogging Tool, About.com, August 16, 2008]</ref>  Under liberal control, official Twitter policy was supportive of anarcho-Marxism, was intolerant of dissidence (see [[liberal censorship]]), and lacked diversity of opinion. As of mid-2020 Twitter has enjoyed [[Section 230]] immunity from prosecution for its election interference and other abuses, as well as [[monopoly]] control. There has been widespread discontent over Twitter's abuses of the public trust under its previous liberal ownership.  It has been characterized as the "Wuhan wet market of ideas."<ref>https://youtu.be/DdYwUdRukV4</ref>