This past Tuesday evening, Elon Musk, the new CEO of Twitter, posted a video clip of roughly 12 seconds highlighting an oddity he discovered stuffed into a closet at the main headquarters for Twitter which unveiled a truly extreme-left perspective.
In the video, Musk showed a closet of shelves stacked high with T-shirts meant to be part of the merchandising for Twitter, and spotlighted one shelf stuffed with black T-shirts with the logo “#Stay Woke.”
“Here we are at the merch and there is an entire closet full of — ” explained the billionaire, before someone just off-camera states, “secret closet.”
“— Hashtag Woke T-Shirts,” finished Musk.
Found in closet at Twitter HQ fr 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/3xSI3KvvHk
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2022
Despite the intense and vocal criticism from the political Left at how he has been handling the company, Musk highlighted this week that Twitter has managed to add another 1.6M active daily users over the course of this past week.
Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high pic.twitter.com/Si3cRYnvyD
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2022
Just a scant few hours prior to the post highlighting the overtly woke T-shits, Musk took shots at those criticizing him, posting, “Wasn’t Twitter supposed to die by now or something … ?”
“Maybe we’ve gone to heaven/hell & don’t know it,” he stated.
Maybe we’ve gone to heaven/hell & don’t know it 🤔
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2022
All the while, a large group of over 60 civil rights and civil society groups labeling themselves the “Stop Toxic Twitter” coalition urged the top advertisers on the Twitter platform to initiate a boycott of the company, making threats like, “Musk must not roll back the basic moderation practices Twitter already has on the books and he must invest the resources necessary to enforce those rules.”
“Sweeping layoffs at Twitter make it impossible for Twitter to uphold brand safeguards and content moderation. Companies should immediately stop advertising in response,” they went on.
Audi, Balenciaga, United Airlines, and Volkswagen are just a few of the brands that have gone along with the demand from the coalition, as reported by the group’s website.
“Since taking control of Twitter, Musk has now laid off around 50 percent of the original 7,500 employees and accepted resignations from 1,200 more,” read a report from the Daily Mail.
This past Monday, Dinesh D’Souza, a political commentator, tagged Musk in a post which read, “We don’t hear much about Democrats and leftists being let back on Twitter. Why? Because they were never kicked off in the first place. Their lies and misinformation simply escaped all scrutiny. Censorship has been deployed as a one-way operation against conservatives.”
“Correct,” was Musk’s short and simple response.
Correct
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2022
Just before that, Musk made it quite clear that he would now be looking into the issue of child exploitation on the platform; when one user commented, “Musk has begun addressing the issue of posting child sexual exploitation content on Twitter after years of the platform’s inactivity on the subject under past management,” the new CEO answered, “Priority #1.”
Priority #1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2022