• Niello@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Even before gaining control of Twitter, Musk would take a proactive approach to addressing criticism.

    Back in 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk actively monitored Twitter for tweets containing the hashtag $TSLA, often used by Tesla short-sellers. Musk would reach out to executives at companies to investigate employees who were potentially publishing negative tweets about his electric vehicle company.

    During that time, Musk reportedly emailed former Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess in July 2018, questioning whether one of Diess’s employees was using Twitter to criticize Tesla anonymously. Business Insider later reported that Volkswagen determined the tweets were posted by the employee’s brother.

    Musk also allegedly texted Lawrence Fossi’s employer. According to the WSJ, on July 23, 2018, Musk sent a text to the top executive at Fossi’s company, asking the boss whether he knew his employee, known on Twitter as Montana Skeptic, “was obsessively trashing Tesla via a pseudonym,” as disclosed in the report.

    Straight from the article, for anyone wondering.

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      So musk has been a blantant childish shitbag for years now, good to know

      Funny how the people the most likely to be fucking you over get the most aggressive about shutting down free speech (that they don’t like)

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      Musk would reach out to executives at companies to investigate employees who were potentially publishing negative tweets about his electric vehicle company.

      Did any of them ever care?