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Elon Musk estimates at least 20% of Twitter accounts are bots
“I think it's some number that is probably at least four or five times that number. I'd say at if you did sort of the lowest estimate would be probably 20%. And this is a bunch of quite smart outside firms have done analysis of Twitter and looked at the sort of…”
Calacanis: Musk will buy Twitter at a lower price by year-end
“My prediction is the Board tries to fight it. Stock collapses. Nobody thinks it's going to get done. Elon lowers his offer, and he wins it by the end of the year, and gives him a lower offer.”
Sacks predicts elites and media will stop Musk from acquiring Twitter
“Elon is gonna be thwarted by these folks. He's not gonna get control of this company. They're, the vested interest in stopping him by the board, by the new CEO, and by the corporate media and the political elites is too great. They will find a way to stop him.”
Rogers: Leaked emails show NGO's top priority was killing Musk's X
“We have emails that have leaked from some of these NGOs. So one of them, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Which is a British NGO whose leader was the target of some of our visa sanctions. There are emails exchanged with Democratic politicians in the Uni…”
Sacks: Pre-acquisition Twitter admin tools had checkboxes to shadowban accounts
“So anyway, he calls, and basically what he told me was that all the conspiracy theories are true, that we've now gone into the admin tools that the trust and safety team was using, and they literally have check boxes to throttle accounts based on, exclude them…”
Sacks: FBI used 'Teleport' tool to transmit instructions to Twitter
“The FBI had their own tool called teleport, which would allow them to transmit secret instructions to the trust and safety team at Twitter.”
Sacks: Twitter Files showed 80 FBI agents sending platform takedown requests
“Once that censorship power was created, It attracted powerful entities from our government who wanted to co-opt and use that power. That's what we saw in the Twitter files with the 80 FBI agents sending takedown requests.”
Calacanis: Twitter Files confirm secret blacklists tagged conservative voices
“We now have confirmation that what the right thought was happening all along, which is a secret silencing system built into the software. Of blacklists was tagging right-wing conservative voices in the system.”
Sacks: Twitter suppressed Hunter Biden laptop story before 2020 election
“What he did was confirm that a completely true story by the New York Post about Hunter Biden that came out a month before the election was suppressed by Twitter executives, including at the behest of, you know, of FBI agents and former security state officials…”
Sacks: FBI warned social networks to suppress authentic Hunter Biden laptop story
“A very important piece of this was the pre-bunking that the FBI went to Facebook and Twitter and social networks and said, be on the lookout for a story about Hunter Biden. It is Russian disinformation. And they primed these social networks to suppress that st…”
Sacks: Twitter execs maintained hack framing despite internal pushback
“Jim Baker and Vijaya Gotti said, okay, that there were a lot of internal questions about whether that, that Hunter Biden story could be justified under the hacked policy. And there were many legitimate questions raised internally about whether they could maint…”
Sacks: Twitter Files prove executives lied about shadowbanning political viewpoints
“You had statement after statement by Twitter executives like Jack Dorsey, like Vijaya, Gadi, like, you know, Yoel and others saying we do not shadow ban. And then they also said, we certainly, this is their emphasis, do not shadow ban on the basis of political…”
Sacks: Twitter suppressed Libs of TikTok despite admitting no policy violation
“There are conversations in the Slack that Barry Weiss exposed where, for example, Libs of TikTok, they admit in the Slack that we can't suppress Libs of TikTok based on our hate policy. Libs of TikTok hasn't violated it. We're going to suppress that account an…”
Calacanis: Twitter placed Jay Bhattacharya on a trends blacklist
“And then there were people who were banned from the trends blacklist, including a Stanford professor, Jay Bhattacharya.”
Sacks: Twitter's racist post surge was a 4chan bot attack
“What happened is that within hours of Elon taking over the company on Friday, there was a four Chan attack where basically people from this message board created bots to post hundreds of thousands of spam messages that contained Racist words and epithets.”
Rabois: A flipped Congress will subpoena Twitter over foreign government influence
“But the government, if the U.S. Congress is turned over, there's gonna be a lot of subpoenas flying over to Twitter, because there are absolutely foreign governments influencing some of those decisions at Twitter.”
Palihapitiya: Trump will likely be allowed back on Twitter after three years
“I think all roads will probably lead to a conclusion that after three years, it's probably okay to let this guy back and be able to tweet.”
Shellenberger: Twitter found minimal foreign influence from FBI-flagged accounts
“You'll repeatedly, you'll Roth would respond to FBI that, yeah, we looked into these accounts that you mentioned, and they were all very low follower accounts with very little activity. So they just weren't finding very much foreign influence on the Twitter pl…”
Calacanis: Twitter and Facebook did not know if laptop story was hacked
“Twitter and Facebook did not know.”
Calacanis: Twitter's workforce is 96% to 97% left-leaning
“It's pretty clear what happened here, because these all occurred with a group of people working at Twitter, which is 96 or 97% left-leaning. The statistics are clear.”
Sacks: Musk did not change Twitter content moderation rules post-acquisition
“The truth is Elon hasn't even had a chance To change anything about the content moderation policies. He's posted that, like, guys, I haven't even, I haven't changed anything about content moderation. Whatever the rules are, they're the same rules that existed …”
Chamath: Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter will probably close within weeks
“And so I think this deal is going to close. It's probably going to close in the next few weeks.”
Chamath: Twitter-Elon lawsuit will end in settlement or price cut
“The most likely outcome here is a settlement where you have to pay the economic difference between where the stock is now and 54 20, which is more than a billion dollars, or you close at some number below 54 dollars and 20 cents a share.”
Rabois: Elon Musk acquiring Twitter will be a bad financial investment
“Yes, Elon should buy Twitter to save the world, but it's not going to be a good financial investment.”
Sacks: Agrawal will be ousted immediately if Musk buys Twitter
“If Elon wins this battle, Parag is going to have the shortest executive career since that Pope who got poisoned.”
Chamath: Twitter board will fail to find a competing bidder
“They have to take Elon's offer and they have to create a go shop. I will go and try to get a better price. They won't be able to. And the reason they won't be able to is not a single person who is capable of stepping up with forty three billion dollars would e…”
Friedberg: Twitter board will reject offer and Musk will walk away
“They're gonna try and find the best price. They're gonna reject his offer. I don't think he's gonna up the offer significantly to the point to get it to get it done. They're gonna go out and run a long strategic process. Three months from now, we're still gonn…”
Sacks: Twitter stock will fall to pre-offer level if takeover rejected
“The stock is going right back to that previous level. If they turn down this proposal.”
Nate Silver: 80% of voters agreed Joe Biden was too old
“Saying, Biden is obviously too old, Democrats, you're gonna lose unless you replace him. Like, that, even though it's a stance that, like, literally 80% of voters agreed with, will make you, like, seem like a heretic on Twitter.”
Sacks: Twitter executives knew Hamilton 68 tracked American, not Russian, accounts
“Hamilton's 68 claimed that it was tracking 500 Russian accounts on social media Who were engaged in manipulation of online discourse? Well, as it turns out, executives inside of Twitter knew who these accounts were, and they were just American accounts, some C…”
Sacks: Alex Jones's final Twitter ban strike was for insulting a reporter
“And the third strike he received that That caused him to be banned from the Twitter platform by the former management was he actually insulted a reporter, which was a very borderline case.”
Sacks: Twitter Files showed 80 FBI agents monitored social media accounts
“One of the revelations that came out during the Twitter files is that we had 80 FBI agents monitoring Americans' social media accounts and submitting takedown requests to Twitter.”
Chamath: Elon Musk leads companies with female top executives across Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX
“He has a female chairman at Tesla, a female CEO at Twitter, and a female president at SpaceX.”
Sacks claims YouTube removed the viral Pfizer CEO Davos clip
“YouTube banned that video. We had to watch it on Twitter because Elon Musk's Twitter is still free.”
Sacks: Mastodon does not have nearly the distribution of Twitter
“And anybody who's thinking about going to like some knockoff like Mastodon or something is gonna have to contend with the fact that it doesn't have nearly the distribution.”
Sacks claims his tweets get 10-20x more reach than the NYT
“I didn't know that, but I just went over to the New York Times profile and my tweets are routinely getting 10 to 20 times more reach, more views than theirs.”
Calacanis: Twitter tagged Charlie Kirk with 'Do Not Amplify'
“Charlie Kirk, who is a conservative commentator, he was tagged with do not amplify.”
Calacanis: Twitter placed Dan Bongino on a search blacklist
“He was tagged with being on a search blacklist.”
Sacks: Twitter loses a few hundred million dollars a quarter
“I think Twitter's losing, you know, a few hundred million dollars a quarter.”
Calacanis: Twitter had two employees working for Saudi Arabia
“Oh, they had Twitter had it. They had two people from the kingdom working there.”
Sacks: Twitter failed to deliver Dorsey's promised algorithmic transparency to Congress
“I think we need some of the transparency that Jack Dorsey repeatedly promised at all the congressional hearings. Remember when he got hauled up there, he promised that they would give more transparency about the way that their algorithms worked. Where is that?…”
Sacks: Incoming Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal rejected First Amendment principles
“Parag, who said last year in 2020, there's an article where he basically said that Twitter Does not need to follow the principles of the first amendment and its content moderation policy.”
Sacks: Rachel Maddow's ivermectin tweets went unfact-checked on Twitter
“For some reason, the Rachel Maddow tweets went unfact checked. As far as I know, they're still unfact checked.”
Sacks says Twitter offered $4B to acquire Clubhouse and was rejected
“Well, they got a, they got an acquisition offer from Twitter for four billion, and they turned, they did this.”
Gracias: Twitter cut 80% of full-time staff following acquisition
“80% of the people gone. That doesn't include all the contractors that were there.”
Sacks: Elon Musk fired 85 percent of Twitter's workforce after acquisition
“I saw what Elon did at Twitter. He went in and he fired 85% of the employees.”