As images of #ChinaProtests spread to the rest of world through Twitter, where they are outside the official reach of Beijing censors, one Q is:
How susceptible is Elon Musk to CCP pressure?
How susceptible is Elon Musk to CCP pressure?
https://twitter.com/realbeiming/status/1596677735979487232
As @Breakingviews noted in April
Tesla produces half of its automobiles in #Shanghai, where it enjoys tax breaks, and depends on local suppliers for critical components. The domestic market generates 25% of sales reuters.com/breakingviews/…
Tesla produces half of its automobiles in #Shanghai, where it enjoys tax breaks, and depends on local suppliers for critical components. The domestic market generates 25% of sales reuters.com/breakingviews/…
“I don't think there is another American more dependent upon the largess of the Communist Party than Elon Musk,” @MarkWarner said in October bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
If Musk does not make a decision on censoring China protest pics, what sort of resources are left at @TwitterSupport to fight against mass targeting by C “50 Cent Army” type accounts? voanews.com/a/who-is-that-…
In 2020 Twitter ID’d and shut over 20,000 accounts linked to CCP information operations that were “involved in a range of manipulative and coordinated activities” forbes.com/sites/kenrapoz…
Twitter said in September it would open up the “moderation research consortium” that studies such activities to more people. reuters.com/technology/twi…
And the folks who were the intellectual firepower behind monitoring state actors and other moderation, ie @yoyoel @vijaya exited after Musk’s takeover reuters.com/article/twitte…
We are currently witnessing the "first major failure to stop government influence in the Musk era"
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1597054230270906368
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