| | '''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> |
| − | In September 2024, Musk closed the headquarters of X in the Mid-Market portion of [[San Francisco]], where it was the second-largest tenant in Mid-Market SF.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/stab-back-elon-musks-decision-183032988.html</ref> X may have some new job openings, which presumably attract less [[liberal]] workers, in [[Austin]] (its new headquarters), [[Palo Alto]], and [[San Jose]]. | + | In September 2024, Musk closed the headquarters of X in the Mid-Market portion of [[San Francisco]], where it was the second-largest tenant.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/stab-back-elon-musks-decision-183032988.html</ref> X may have some new job openings, which presumably attract less [[liberal]] workers, in [[Austin]] (its new headquarters), [[Palo Alto]], and [[San Jose]]. |
| | With its move out of SF, it looks like X will be hiring replacements likely to be less liberal. | | With its move out of SF, it looks like X will be hiring replacements likely to be less liberal. |