It wasn’t always that the left hated Elon Musk, he created a fleet of electric cars, condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, sent a satellite of internet terminals to keep the Ukrainian people connected, and even voted for Barack Obama. So, what has changed in the last 10 years? Well evidently Musk thinks nothing has changed except the far left have pulled the left so far that it has dragged many conservative lefts to the right, tweeting out a meme showing himself on the right now, but still in the center.
Recently with Must taking over Twitter and championing for free speech, has many on the left screaming mad and scrambling to keep control. They have even gone so far as to create a ministry of Truth which Musk replied with interesting.
Many of Musk’s recent tweets seem to suggest that he will not cower from the left, but actually taunts them with his tweets.
Musk even went off saying the only reason that Truth Social exists was because of the stifling of Freedom of Speech and noted how the Truth Social Network has been gaining follower much faster than Twitter recently.
Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech
Which the announcement that the Twitter board would indeed take Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter, blue chip accounts have seen wild swings in follower counts.
Many left leaning progressive reported losing massive followers while conservatives gained followers.
Many Blue chip accounts posted about losing or gaining followers after the announcement of Musk’s take over.
Remember when Twitter, one of the biggest social media companies in the world, spent years shadow banning conservatives and gaslit everyone by pretending they didn’t?
While I’m awesome and totally deserving of 87,000 new followers a day it seems that someone took the shackles off my account. Wonder if they’re burning the evidence before new mgmt comes in? pic.twitter.com/9Mso48qyNP
Is anyone else losing followers too? I'm seeing people across Twitter report they have lost thousands today. I am down 5,000. Though much of that could be because I'm an idiot with way too many followers. Idk
With theories all over the place, Twitter attempted to clarify the reason for the shift in a statement to NBC News.
“We’ve been looking into recent fluctuations in follower counts. While we continue to take action on accounts that violate our spam policy which can affect follower counts, these fluctuations appear to largely be a result of an increase in new account creation and deactivation,” Twitter said. “We’ll continue looking into these follower count fluctuations and keep you updated.”
Twitter also called the shift in followers “organic” site traffic.
Most of Facebook’s platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, went down with widespread outages today. Users began reporting outages around 11 a.m. Eastern Time. The blackout of services continued for 7 hours till services began to recover around 6 p.m. Eastern.
Having to use Twitter to get their messages out, Facebook announced around 6:33 p.m.
To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us.
Andy Stone, a spokesman for Facebook also tweeting out:
Facebook services coming back online now – may take some time to get to 100%. To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I'm sorry.
During this time Facebook shares fell as much as 5% wiping out nearly $6 billion of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth. The mystery of what happened to Facebook is still a mystery.
