Elon Musk is a convenient tool for big tech companies to increase corporate profits and oppress the working class.

Layoffs at Twitter were followed by a wave of layoffs at mega-corporations such as Facebook/Meta, Google and Microsoft. Employee benefits began to be cut. Musk is forcing fees for "verified" accounts, something Facebook and Instagram are now trying to do #Oligopoly
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Is Elon Musk’s Twitter in too much trouble to cover its debts?
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Social media platform faces $300m interest payment this week, and default could trigger debt restructuring – or bankruptcyElon Musk sold a statue of Twitter’s bird logo last week for $100,000 – and he needs the money. The social m...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/22/elon-musk-twitter-debt

Back to the future: how Mastodon is restoring the lost art of online conversation | John Naughton
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The new social network and its interconnected ‘fediverse’ is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/21/back-to-the-future-how-mastodon-is-restoring-the-lost-art-of-online-conversation

Musk tells Tesla trial: ‘Just because I tweet doesn’t mean people believe it’
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The carmaker founder said Twitter was the most democratic way to communicate but tweets didn’t affect stock as he expectedElon Musk testified on Friday as part of a trial over a 2018 tweet in which he claimed to have “funding secu...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/20/elon-musk-testify-tesla-trial-2018-tweet