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[–] ActionJackson@lemmy.world 98 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I assume he means people who are fired for contributing to the increased hate speech on Twitter and not people who are fired for criticizing his shitty cars

[–] ashar@infosec.pub 88 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the company that failed to pay rent for its offices and hasn’t paid dues to former employees?

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

"I know Twitter can't even cover it's operating costs but trust me bro" ~ Elmonk

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 81 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He wanted a headline, and he got it.

I honestly rolled my eyes the second I saw this. Dude is getting tiresome.

[–] stempo@lemmy.ml 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago

Dude won’t even pay rent or severance, and he expects us to believe he’ll pay the legal fees for other folks? Ok sure bro 🙄

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 64 points 2 years ago

That would be cool to hear, if it didn't came from the same person that fired an employee over some tweets.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 58 points 2 years ago

Can't we add a rule to not allow news which only are created by "Musk said ..."?

[–] fisco@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago

Ohh...so he's going to pay for his eX employees to sue him....

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 32 points 2 years ago

Everyone get a job at Amazon and start posting slurs on twitter so we can take them both down at once

[–] fluke@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How much do you wanna bet that he won't, save for a select couple of cases that they'll publicise the ever living shit out of before quietly never speaking of it again

[–] Granite@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

If they do 1-2 publicly, then everyone will expect it. It will just generate more press. I bet they defend none and fold.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How could you even trust this guys word, he's broken his promises and straight up lied so often it's actually astonishing

[–] fluke@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of another far right mouth piece.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Unfairly" is the key word here.

Just another lie from a fascist symp.

[–] Jourei@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago
[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 12 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Elon Musk has said X, formerly known as Twitter, will pay the legal bills of anyone who is treated unfairly by their employer for their activity on his social media platform.

On Sunday, Mr Musk told users that financial assistance from his platform would have "no limits".

Mr Musk is a self-described "free speech absolutist" and has been vocal in his criticisms of the platform's policies on moderating content prior to his takeover.

When he announced that he was taking over Twitter in April last year, Mr Musk said "free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated".

More recently, the firm that owns Twitter announced that it was suing an anti-hate organisation whose research criticised the platform.

X Corp accused CCDH of "unlawful acts" to "improperly gain access" to its data.


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[–] Limeade@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, let's see all those fired Twitter employees get their legal bills covered for daring to criticize him in their tweets.

[–] SpicyPeaSoup@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Elon Musk sues Elon Musk after Elon Musk's employee was fired for criticising Elon Musk.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago

World news, everybody.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Why is this dude just roleplaying made up shit considered news

[–] unminded@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah, lose more money pls

[–] cthonctic@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I know Elon Twitler is a giga troll but now he's just taking the piss. He is probably going to fund his own legal bills against the unfairly terminated devs of the company he had to be forced to purchase.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

So this is how he will excuse sending money to Trump...

[–] outbound@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

*For Twitter Blue users only

[–] Nusm@artemis.camp 1 points 2 years ago