Elon Musk may be stepping down as head of Twitter?

[Tank]

He's appointed a new CEO and has nominally stepped back from the running of Twitter. He did the same at Tesla and SpaceX. Watch out Zukerberg and Basos he's after you!

[Asmodean]

...And the new CEO is, if rumours are to be believed, from the exact same club as the old CEO.

You know all those people who practically hero-worshipped Musk as some avatar of Free Speech and Conservative Values..? Yeah... There is once again salt to be mined on the Internet.

"X, the fucking everything app." It won't spy on you because pinky promise. Except of course it will, and rather than doing everything, it will do everything it does poorly. That is The Asmo's prediction.

[MarcusA]

Money talks.

[Asmodean]

Actually, in this case, it's not the money as such doing all the talking - it's one [paper-]billionnaire with expensive hobbies.

[Recusant]

His heart goes out to you. 

Huge success (or not so much--notifications of termination of employment may be retracted but for now get lost) gutting much of the apparatus of gov that he doesn't like or Trump doesn't like, or MAGA in general has an ick for. Really nasty things like climate science and other leftist gobbledegook. You know.

Competence is not a requirement, just a willingness to take a sledgehammer to government programs and people's careers. A recent example, though of course they've begun to pile up.

"Whistleblower claims DOGE triggered Russian cyberattack at US labor watchdog" | Cybernews

The protected whistleblower and NLRB civil servant, Dan Berulis, said he witnessed DOGE workers harvesting "nearly the entirety" of the labor board's "critical information systems."

According to the Washington, DC-based advocate group Whistleblower Aids, DOGE's activity with the Board's IT infrastructure "has exposed the data in those systems for exploitation by foreign adversaries, posing a grave risk to national security."

In fact, the non-profit organization claims that, besides "unlawfully plundering the data of millions of Americans," it's no coincidence that a short time after DOGE accessed NLRB's systems, Russian threat actors attempted to log into the network – even using the correct login credentials.

"Within minutes of DOGE personnel creating service/user accounts in NLRB systems – someone or something within Russia appeared to attempt to log in using all of the correct credentials (eg, Usernames/Passwords) on several occasions," said Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel Andrew Bakaj.

[Continues . . .]

Could be that Musk's boy geniuses are using devices that have been infected with some effective malware. It could have been a coincidence. Or malware. 

[Tank]

It would appear that laws only apply to law abiding citizens.