Huffman's giving us all a masterclass in how to be absolutely atrocious at PR, seriously how on Earth did Reddit as a company allow this to go ahead? It's like the tech industry equivalent of a Liz Truss speech.
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Because bad PR hasn't really hurt any company in decades? When is the last time "CEO did something awful but not illegal" actually significantly reduced a company's income?
Twitter basically became a Nazi rally and they're still going to clear a billion dollars in revenue this year.
> CEO did something awful but not illegal
Libel is actually quite illegal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Twitter basically became a Nazi rally and they're still going to clear a billion dollars in revenue this year.
What? No it didn't. If you're seeing that sort of content on Twitter it must be because you're following those sort of people.
I for one definitely have not been following those sort of people and I've seen a marked increase in their presence in my feed after Elon took over - many people have. Elon unbanned a ton of right-wing accounts and it seems like he's privileged their content to appear more often in people's feeds, likely anyone the demographics have tagged as "leftist" or "liberal."
And Elon himself has been retweeting and responding favorably to racist content for a while. It's obvious there is an attempt on his part to normalize this stuff on the platform. He's basically a redpilled troll at this point.
What world do you even live in? Twitter was even full of right wing nut jobs and Russian bots _before_ the takeover, which they were more than happy to intersperse into my timeline of entirely technologists.