Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Draco-Onis]

Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest: $2.37 billion in potential federal penalties, report says

Elon Musk and his companies faced at least $2.37 billion in potential federal fines and penalties the day President Trump took office, according to a congressional report released Monday that highlights the possible conflicts of interest posed by the billionaire’s cost-cutting work in government.

The 43-page memo by the minority staff of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), is the most exhaustive attempt yet to detail Musk’s alleged conflicts as an advisor to Trump and chief promoter of his team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

Based on publicly available documents, media reports and the committee’s own calculations, the memo found that as of Jan. 20, Musk and his companies were “subject to at least 65 actual or potential actions by 11 different federal agencies” and that 40 of those created $2.37 billion in potential liabilities.

“Mr. Musk has taken a chainsaw to the federal government with no apparent regard for the law or for the people who depend on the programs and agencies he so blithely destroys,” the memo stated. “The through line connecting many of Mr. Musk’s decisions appears to be self-enrichment and avoiding what he perceives as obstacles to advancing his interests.”

The memo notes that Musk’s companies have received more than $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits going back more than 20 years. And it notes that SpaceX, as of Friday, had $10.1 billion in federal contracts.

“President Trump could not have chosen a person more prone to conflicts of interest,” states the memo, which calls on the president, executive departments and regulatory agencies to “take coordinated action to address Elon Musk’s threat to the integrity of federal governance.”

in other news

Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings in talks to raise $20 billion, Bloomberg News reports

Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in discussions with investors to raise about $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The funding would value the company at over $120 billion, according to the report.

Musk was looking to assign “proper value” to xAI, sources told CNBC’s David Faber earlier this month. The remarks were made during a call with xAI investors, sources familiar with the matter told Faber. The Tesla CEO at that time didn’t explicitly mention any upcoming funding round, but the sources suggested xAI was preparing for a substantial capital raise in the near future.

The funding amount could be more than $20 billion as the exact figure had not been decided, the Bloomberg report added.

[Poopymonster]

Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest: $2.37 billion in potential federal penalties, report says



in other news

Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings in talks to raise $20 billion, Bloomberg News reports

dilDon will waive the fee. Or "That's what he would have been paid for his work".

[Edge-]

https://newrepublic.com/post/194595/...ft-white-house

Elon Musk has departed from the White House as he prepares to end his tenure as the department’s leader, according to reporting from the New York Post.

“Instead of meeting with him in person, I’m talking to him on the phone, but it’s the same net effect,” maintained White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, who later noted that the billionaire “hasn’t been here physically, but it really doesn’t matter much.” Musk is said to be officially stepping down sometime in May.

he came

he lead an illegal department filled with unqualified nepobabies

stole mountains of americans data and government secrets

installed backdoors

ended investigations into his company

repeatedly humiliated the POTUS and walked around/acted like he owned the white house

was a super fucking weird south african pedo guy

and is now fucking off to do that same work remotely because he has all the backdoors and actually going into the office to work is for the poors

Musk’s departure sounds great to a majority of Americans (and Tesla shareholders), but reports of a clean break between Trump and Musk—one of the defining characters of the second-term MAGAverse—are greatly exaggerated. Musk is keeping one foot in and one foot out, offering competing images of what his role will be in the future.

because he's not actually going anywhere

he's still an unelected bureaucrat and a super weird south african pedo guy with mountains of conflicts of interest who shouldn't be anywhere near government

“I’ll have to continue doing [DOGE] for, I think, probably the remainder of the president’s term, just to make sure that the waste and fraud that we stop does not come roaring back, which [it] will do if it has the chance,” Musk said on a Tesla call, contradicting his comments about stepping away. “I think I’ll continue to spend a day or two per week on government matters for as long as the president would like me to do so and as long as it is useful.”

notably, he's accomplished none of this and has instead just fired a lot of people while making americans and the government worse off

it's so nice that the rich people get to do whatever they want

[DarkTZeratul]

So according to the Wall Street Journal, Tesla is now looking for a new CEO:
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/t...board-0ce61af9

[Draco-Onis]

So according to the Wall Street Journal, Tesla is now looking for a new CEO:
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/t...board-0ce61af9

Fun fact Twitter does in fact have a CEO but most people don't know her name without having to look it up. It doesn't matter who the "new CEO" of Tesla is Elon has forever linked with Tesla, no amount of PR is going to wash away the Nazi stink.

[Paranoid Android]

Excuse me for making this thread a "Super Villain Thread" I'm sure we had a Zuckerberg thread, too lazy find and create one.

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends"

Open admission that Zuck is exploiting loneliness, isolation of today to make more addicted to his technology. What a lizard demon.

I guess to be fair he is not the only person, but once more it's Zuck and he has a huge platform with wealth and Meta, I guess(?).

[Edge-]

Excuse me for making this thread a "Super Villain Thread" I'm sure we had a Zuckerberg thread, too lazy find and create one.

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends"

Open admission that Zuck is exploiting loneliness, isolation of today to make more addicted to his technology. What a lizard demon.

I guess to be fair he is not the only person, but once more it's Zuck and he has a huge platform with wealth and Meta, I guess(?).

lmao dude wants to turn facebook into the same bot-infested dead hellscape that twitter has become

they've already been pushing out the fake ai "people", and my favorite part was the fact that teams of almost exclusively white engineers made profiles for Black folks : )

[fwc577]

Dunno how people drive those trucks. Way back, I was in an accident, and the insurance company provided me with an equivalent rental car, a Ford F-150. I had to go downtown for a meeting. Trying to navigate that monstrosity through the underground parking and fit that thing in the tiny parking stalls was a nightmare.

I don't drive a Cybertruck, but I will give my experiences.

I originally drove a little tiny two-door Hyundai as my first vehicle. I remember my second vehicle being an absolute 4-Door, American-made, all-steel, big-ass Pontiac. Took me about a week before I realized I wasn't going to hit everything in sight. Moved to a smaller Chevy Sonic before finally getting a big 'ol Rav4.

The upgrade from the tiny Hyundai to the Pontiac was crazy, but I haven't had that problem since.

[LeGin v4]

What a lizard demon.

There are different ways of phrasing this that would prove less popular and more infractable, but yes

Ditch Meta

Is Geneva working or not? Last time I tried in the UK, it wasn't

Facebook & Instagram - long gone. WhatsApp's harder to replace. And fuck that stupid blue circle that's permanently there now

[DarkTZeratul]

Fun fact Twitter does in fact have a CEO but most people don't know her name without having to look it up. It doesn't matter who the "new CEO" of Tesla is Elon has forever linked with Tesla, no amount of PR is going to wash away the Nazi stink.

The difference is Twitter is privately owned by Musk personally. Tesla is a publicly traded company with a board of directors, and though they have a history of backing him no matter what, if they're now openly looking to replace him that's a really bad sign for Musk.

[Draco-Onis]

The difference is Twitter is privately owned by Musk personally. Tesla is a publicly traded company with a board of directors, and though they have a history of backing him no matter what, if they're now openly looking to replace him that's a really bad sign for Musk.

Considering the board is stuffed with Musk lackeys including his brother, it's clear this is just a sad PR stunt to satisfy investors.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Considering the board is stuffed with Musk lackeys including his brother, it's clear this is just a sad PR stunt to satisfy investors.

The Board Chair is denying that they were looking for a new CEO. They said they were just looking for an Independent Director. So, either they are lying about that because they're not willing to openly go against Musk yet...or they were never looking for a new CEO. Either way...it isn't a PR stunt.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-c...denies-report/

"Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company," Denholm wrote in a May 1 post on X, the social media app owned by Musk. "This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published)."

https://www.reuters.com/business/aut...ts-2025-05-01/

The eight-person Tesla board, which includes Musk's brother Kimbal Musk and James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has been looking to add an independent director, the report said.

[Bwgmon]

lmao dude wants to turn facebook into the same bot-infested dead hellscape that twitter has become

they've already been pushing out the fake ai "people", and my favorite part was the fact that teams of almost exclusively white engineers made profiles for Black folks : )

It's going to be incredibly funny if his AI friendsquad learns to criticize the right like Grok did.

[Breccia]

So according to the Wall Street Journal, Tesla is now looking for a new CEO:
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/t...board-0ce61af9

Came here to say this.

Dumb move. The damage is done at this point. Forcing Musk out and finding someone willing to replace him is just cauterizing a sucking chest wound.

[Muzjhath]

Excuse me for making this thread a "Super Villain Thread" I'm sure we had a Zuckerberg thread, too lazy find and create one.

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends"

Open admission that Zuck is exploiting loneliness, isolation of today to make more addicted to his technology. What a lizard demon.

I guess to be fair he is not the only person, but once more it's Zuck and he has a huge platform with wealth and Meta, I guess(?).

He needs to be fucking stoned. Not in the good way.

[Gestopft]

they've already been pushing out the fake ai "people", and my favorite part was the fact that teams of almost exclusively white engineers made profiles for Black folks : )

Ditch Meta

I'm only getting more and more proud that I haven't been on Facebook since Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House...

No, I mean the first time she was Speaker. Like, back when Obama still looked young.

[Rasulis]

Excuse me for making this thread a "Super Villain Thread" I'm sure we had a Zuckerberg thread, too lazy find and create one.

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends"

Open admission that Zuck is exploiting loneliness, isolation of today to make more addicted to his technology. What a lizard demon.

I guess to be fair he is not the only person, but once more it's Zuck and he has a huge platform with wealth and Meta, I guess(?).

The Q1 2025 quarterly earning mentions that Meta AI digital assistant monthly user count is now almost 1 billion. Up from 700 million in Q4 2024 earnings call.

Old video. How FB, YouTube, WhatsApp and Instagram took over the world. Some names that I had pretty much forgotten. How did myspace lost is overwhelming lead over every other social platform companies.



Since this is a Twitter thread. The monthly active user count of Meta's Twitter clone, Threads, swelled to 350 million.

[Paranoid Android]

SCOOP: On Friday, the US Copyright Office released a blockbuster report on AI training.

On Saturday, the USCO director was unceremoniously fired.

Today, two men claiming to be Trump appointees—including a new acting USCO director—showed up at the office:

We knew but all along this was just a way to Elon pillage the US government thru its history and trillions of dollars of stored research, data and technology that elmo can use to further his riches.

My gawd we got so effed.

There was another story about him trying to pillage the Library of Congress(?) or something different than Copyright office. Idk if this is the same story but I'm sure he is trying to loot every agency he can for his AI

[gondrin]

SCOOP: On Friday, the US Copyright Office released a blockbuster report on AI training.

On Saturday, the USCO director was unceremoniously fired.

Today, two men claiming to be Trump appointees—including a new acting USCO director—showed up at the office:

We knew but all along this was just a way to Elon pillage the US government thru its history and trillions of dollars of stored research, data and technology that elmo can use to further his riches.

My gawd we got so effed.

There was another story about him trying to pillage the Library of Congress(?) or something different than Copyright office. Idk if this is the same story but I'm sure he is trying to loot every agency he can for his AI

Well, at least when it comes to copyright laws, unless the laws themselves are repealed, Elon will find himself in court a thousand times over, especially from the likes of Disney and other companies that are absolutely extremely protective of their copyrights and trademarks. Right now, Palworld had to patch their game and remove features due to the fact Nintendo was going to sue them for patent infringement.

And unlike a lot of other things, there isn't much of anything Elon can get the sitting President and the like can do about it seeing as it would be a private company suing another private company.

[Edge-]

SCOOP: On Friday, the US Copyright Office released a blockbuster report on AI training.

On Saturday, the USCO director was unceremoniously fired.

Today, two men claiming to be Trump appointees—including a new acting USCO director—showed up at the office:

We knew but all along this was just a way to Elon pillage the US government thru its history and trillions of dollars of stored research, data and technology that elmo can use to further his riches.

My gawd we got so effed.

There was another story about him trying to pillage the Library of Congress(?) or something different than Copyright office. Idk if this is the same story but I'm sure he is trying to loot every agency he can for his AI

kleptocracy, baybee!