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Elon Musk took to Twitter on Thursday night after a long legal war and months of uncertainty. The question now is what Tesla’s billionaire CEO will do with the social media platform.
Musk gave an indication of where he headed in a tweet on Friday, saying no decisions will be made on content or account reset until a “content moderation board” is established. The council, he wrote, would have varied views.
Reorganizations of a large body of workers are expected, with Musk ousting several of Twitter’s most sensible executives on Thursday. A quarter showed his exit in a tweet.
But Musk, the tech guru and self-proclaimed “Chief Twit,” has made conflicting statements about his vision for the company and shared some concrete plans for how he will run it after buying it for $44 billion.
That left Twitter users, advertisers and workers analyzing their every move in an effort to guess where the business might lead. it is intensifying with upcoming elections in Brazil, the United States and elsewhere.
“I’m going to dig deeper today,” Musk tweeted early Friday, reacting to a conservative political podcaster who complained that the platform favors liberals and secretly degrades conservative voices.
Former President Donald Trump, once an avid tweeter, said Friday he was “very pleased that Twitter is now in good hands” but promoted his own social networking site, Truth Social, which he introduced after the most-used platform was blocked.
Trump banned two days after the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks a pair of tweets that the company said continued to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the U. S. presidential election. UU. de 2020.
Trump has continually said he won’t return to Twitter even if his account is reinstated, though some allies wonder if he can do so as he gets closer to delivering some other expected presidential campaign. His Twitter account remained suspended Friday.
Meanwhile, conservative figures on the site began circulating long-debunked conspiracy theories, adding about COVID-19 and the 2020 election, in an ironic attempt to “test” whether Twitter’s disinformation policies were still being enforced.
The mercurial Musk has made it easy to anticipate what he will do.
He complained about restrictions on expression on the platform, but later promised he wouldn’t let it be a “hellish landscape. “
After Musk signed the deal to get Twitter in April, he tried to pull out, prompting the company to sue him. A Delaware ruling had ordered the deal closed by Friday.
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said Musk and his investors had overpaid. Even Musk said the tag worth $44 billion was too high, but noted that Twitter had wonderful potential.
The payment “will be regarded as one of the most overpaid technology acquisitions in the history of M&A deals on the street, in our view,” Ives wrote in a note to investors. “With a fair price that we would set at around $25 billion, Musk buying Twitter remains a major headache that he ultimately couldn’t get out of when the Delaware courts got involved. “
On Thursday, Musk tweeted, “the bird is free,” a reference to the Twitter logo. On the same day, he fired CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and suggested legal leader Vijaya Gadde.
Sean Edgett, who had been Twitter’s general counsel, showed Friday on Twitter that he, too, is unemployed and said the company is full of people. Legal Department.
Meanwhile, Gadde removed all references to his former employer from his Twitter bio, while trolls continued to post thousands of abusive messages in reaction to his latest tweet.
As considerations mount about the direction of Twitter content moderation, European Union Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted to Musk on Friday that “in Europe, the bird will fly through our rules. “
Breton and Musk met in May and gave the impression of being together in a video in which Musk said he agreed to the 27-nation bloc’s strict new online regulations. platforms for illegal or destructive content, such as hate speech and disinformation.
Musk has also spent months mocking Twitter’s “spam bots” and making conflicting statements about Twitter messes and how to fix them.
It issued a note Thursday aimed at addressing considerations that its plans to announce loose speeches by reducing content moderation will open the floodgates to further online toxicity and alienate users. This showed a new focus on ad revenues, particularly Twitter’s need to deliver more “relevant classified ads,” meaning targeted classified ads that rely on the collection and investigation of non-public information from users. About 90% of Twitter’s profits come from advertising.
The acquisition means Twitter becomes a personal company. Trading in its shares was suspended Friday and will be removed from the New York Stock Exchange next month.
WASHINGTON — A major recall of millions of sleep apnea devices has stoked patients’ anger and frustration, and U. S. authorities are taking unprecedented legal action to boost a replacement effort expected to ramp up next year.
The sound-absorbing foam in pressurized breathing apparatus can break down over time, leading users to potentially inhale small black debris or harmful chemicals while sleeping, manufacturer Philips warned in June 2021.
First, Philips estimated it could fix or upgrade the equipment within a year. But with the recall extended to more than five million devices worldwide, the Dutch company now says the effort will be greater until 2023.
This has left many patients deciding between a potentially destructive device or looking for dicy remedies, adding cutting the foam themselves, buying used machines online or simply without therapy.
The devices are called continuous positive airway pressure or CPAP machines. They force air through a mask to keep the airways open during sleep.
Untreated sleep apnea can cause other people to stop breathing many times during the night, leading to harmful sleepiness and an increased risk of central attack. adults
According to doctors, most patients would be better off using a recalled device, as the dangers of untreated sleep apnea outweigh the potential damage from the disintegrating foam. And they were already scarce due to supply chain issues.
“What happened is that the company just said, ‘Talk to your doctor. ‘But doctors can’t make new machines out of thin air,” said Dr. John Saito, a respiratory disease specialist near Los Angeles.
Foam-related dangers come with headaches, asthma, allergic reactions and carcinogenic effects on internal organs, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The recalled devices come with the Dreamstation and SystemOne CPAP models and several other Philips devices, in addition to Trilogy fans.
In a statement, Philips said ongoing tests on the recalled devices are “encouraging” and show low levels of residue and chemicals emitted through its main machine logo. Philips said its initial communication about the dangers posed by foam was “the worst case of physical risks imaginable. The deterioration appears to be worsened by unauthorized cleaning methods, the company noted. The FDA has obtained more than 70,000 reports of disorders attributed to the devices, including pneumonia, infections, headaches and cancer. Such reports are not displayed independently and cannot result in a causal link. They can be filed through manufacturers, patients, doctors or lawyers.
Jeffrey Reed, of Marysville, Ohio, had been using his Philips device for about a year when he started seeing black dots on the tube and mask. The supplier of his appliance said the waste was due to cleaning, so he continued to use it.
For the next seven years, Reed says he suffered persistent sinus infections, in addition to two episodes of pneumonia, which didn’t go away with antibiotics. After learning about the recall, he suspects that foam debris may play a role.
“Once I put down his machine, everything cleared up,” said Reed, 62, to whom a competitor handed the device after several months. Like other users, Reed definitely turned out that his disorders were caused by the Philips device.
More than 340 private injury lawsuits against Philips have been consolidated in federal court in Pennsylvania and thousands more are expected in the coming months. Reed is part of the dispute.
Like the vast majority of U. S. CPAP users, they do so. In the U. S. , Reed received his device through a medical device supplier contract with his insurer. The company ceased operations before the recall and has never heard of a replacement.
Even in general circumstances, those corporations don’t stick to long-term patients.
“After a few years, I just forgot into the system,” said Ismael Cordero, a biomedical engineer and CPAP user. “I stopped hearing about my supplier about 3 years after I won my machine. “
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