Elon Musk and the rise of reactionary Big Tech (and big money) politics FRAMELAB FEB 12, 2024 (theframelab.org) by Gil Duran | FrameLab It has become impossible to ignore Silicon Valley’s big shift toward authoritarian politics. Last year, we wrote about how Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter was an effort… Continue reading
December 1, 2023 (newsletter@insider.com) Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images The big story X doesn’t mark the spot Is this the end of X? The website formerly known as Twitter seems like it’s on life support these days. You’ve probably heard that multiple times since billionaire Elon Musk took over, but the walls are… Continue reading
17 NOVEMBER 2023/BUSINESS & TECH/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) Elon Musk can’t help himself when it comes to tweeting, and his opinions on many matters are gross and/or deeply misguided, and thus him owning Twitter and taking all the guardrails off it has come back to bite him yet again. We now… Continue reading
By Alex Shultz Nov 1, 2023 (SFGate.com) FILE: Elon Musk speaks with members of the media during day one of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 01, 2023 in Bletchley, England. Leon Neal/Getty Images In July 2022, Elon Musk tried to renege on purchasing Twitter for $44 billion. Anxious to finalize a deal with… Continue reading
27 OCTOBER 2023/BUSINESS & TECH/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) Whatever Elon Musk’s ultimate vision for the platform he and almost no one else calls X may be, it is still slow to take shape, and one year into his tenure at the company, the results of his leadership aren’t great. A New York… Continue reading
This video grab taken from a video posted on the Twitter account of billionaire Tesla chief Elon Musk on October 26, 2022 shows himself carrying a sink as he enters the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. (Photo by Twitter account of Elon Musk/AFP via Getty Images) In Musk’s distorted world… Continue reading
FRONTLINE PBS | Official Oct 10, 2023 FRONTLINE traces Elon Musk’s long and often troubled relationship with Twitter, following his journey from being one of the platform’s most provocative users to becoming its owner. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate…. Continue reading
Second supervisor targeted in five days by billionaire and keyboard antagonist by JOE RIVANO BARROS OCTOBER 3, 2023 (MissionLocal.org) Elon Musk has once again called for a San Francisco supervisor to be put in prison, the second time in the span of a week. On Tuesday, Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, that… Continue reading
Lone socialist on the Board of Supervisors has become target of tech executives by JOE RIVANO BARROS SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 (MissionLocal.org) Elon Musk, the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, called today for the jailing of District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston. “Dean Preston should go to prison,” Musk posted, in response to a Mission… Continue reading
22 SEPTEMBER 2023/SF POLITICS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) Is it a blessing or a curse when perhaps the most widely loathed and cartoonish CEO in tech vows he’ll spend $100,000 to defeat you in an election? Supervisor Dean Preston will find out, as Elon Musk claimed in a tweet that he’ll pledge… Continue reading
