After months Elon Musk Social media company x bought, then known as again TwitterHe allegedly fired an employee to tell that people were losing interest in his positions.
2023 incident Tech came immediately after multilinere Purchase of $ 44 billion of the stageAnd there is just a story that shows in a new book after the chaos of detailed Musk’s acquisition.
Guild Rage: Elon Musk and Silicon Valley radicalization Jacob Silverman checked the rapid change in Twitter and rapid changes in the organization in which about half the workfor was removed, the first restricted accounts were restored, the content had crashed the moderation, and how Kasturi allegedly cured the “for you” feed into the mirror of his interests.
The book sheds new light on how Power Musk accessed through the purchase of the news-cycle-driving platform, re-designed its approach to politics and fed his desire and expectation to be able to mold public debate.
The key to this was clearly required by the muscles, which is considered popular, the book is claimed.
It has been noted why his positions were seeing a decline in engagement levels despite his high -follower counting, Silverman first recalled a report published by online news outlet platforms.
Those days, Platformer report Said that Musk had a meeting with Senior Twitter Staff.
“It’s ridiculous,” Musk allegedly said. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I am getting only tens of thousand impressions.”
Engineers worked on their own platform to understand the Wanning effect of Musk, checking whether their access was somehow “artificially restricted”. However, he found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.
When told by one of the two remaining theory engineers of the company, Musk did not react well.
“You have been fired, you have been fired,” he told the engineer.
The story reported by the platformor in 2023 was published exactly three days before another incident, with Kasturi’s overriding concern how Twitter was working to increase its reach.
Silverman said how, during the 2023 Super Bowl, Musk tweeted his support for Philadelphia Eagles. The then President Joe Biden also fired a tweet, announcing his support for Philadelphia Eagles.
Silverman writes, “Biden’s tweet produced three times about the number of ideas in the form of musk.” An extract published in Newsweek,
“This was clearly unacceptable to Musk, which removed its tweet and flew to California after the game demanding a change in Twitter algorithm,” he said.
Along with these tantrums, Musk was also misunderstood on Twitter, showing the book.
“In a full public scene, it seemed as Kasturi was being made radical by paranoid online authority, being baptized in their rank,” Silverman writes.
As users left the platform in large numbers, with taking the site A dive in advertising revenueMusk Said memorablely In November 2023, companies can be “***” for their positions.
It ended in April 2024 in the departure of Edward Perez, a director of X for Civic integrity.
Perez wrote to Perez at that time, “Musk is a poster child for divisive racist, sexist and plutocratic trend that reduces the commitment of democracy for equality for all.”
Guild Rage: Elon Musk and Silicon Valley radicalization Bloomsbury has been published in the US on 7 October and in the UK on 9 October.