| | '''X Corp.''', located at x.com, formerly '''Twitter, Inc.''' (renamed on July 23, 2023),<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Business/rebranded-twitter/story?id=101605679</ref> was a [[Big Tech]] social networking platform 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 fired top management and dissolved its [[Leftist]] Board of Directors immediately. 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. On Nov. 4, 2022, Musk fired about half of Twitter's 7,500 mostly-[[liberal]] workforce.<ref>https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-claims-he-had-no-choice-but-to-fire-half-of-twitter-staff/</ref> He offered them a generous severance package, more than required. The [[Biden regime]] then falsely labelled Musk a "[[national security]] threat."<ref>https://youtu.be/ORSuo1LsyRQ</ref> | | '''X Corp.''', located at x.com, formerly '''Twitter, Inc.''' (renamed on July 23, 2023),<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Business/rebranded-twitter/story?id=101605679</ref> was a [[Big Tech]] social networking platform 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 fired top management and dissolved its [[Leftist]] Board of Directors immediately. 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. On Nov. 4, 2022, Musk fired about half of Twitter's 7,500 mostly-[[liberal]] workforce.<ref>https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-claims-he-had-no-choice-but-to-fire-half-of-twitter-staff/</ref> He offered them a generous severance package, more than required. The [[Biden regime]] then falsely labelled Musk a "[[national security]] threat."<ref>https://youtu.be/ORSuo1LsyRQ</ref> |
| | + | By May 2024, [[Elon Musk]] (who subsequently endorsed [[Donald Trump]] for president) said that X has 600 million monthly users who are active, including around 300 million users who are active on a daily basis.<ref>https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/elon-musk-x-now-600-million-monthly-active-users/717078/#:~:text=X%20reported%20reaching%20250%20million,actives%2C%20according%20to%20this%20note.</ref> |
| | Musk sought to make X a bastion of [[freedom of speech]], but personnel is policy and [[liberal censorship]] by [[San Francisco]] remains common there. Musk has overcome some of the [[liberal]] [[troll]]ing and fake impersonation that occurred there prior to Musk's acquisition. Ironically it was [[liberal]]s who forced Musk to buy Twitter through a legal proceeding in [[Delaware]]. | | Musk sought to make X a bastion of [[freedom of speech]], but personnel is policy and [[liberal censorship]] by [[San Francisco]] remains common there. Musk has overcome some of the [[liberal]] [[troll]]ing and fake impersonation that occurred there prior to Musk's acquisition. Ironically it was [[liberal]]s who forced Musk to buy Twitter through a legal proceeding in [[Delaware]]. |