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Oct 11 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵NEW @nytimes:

The Trump campaign "connected with X to prevent the circulation of links" to the JD Vance dossier.

Why are Trump and Musk so desperate to hide the Vance dossier? ⤵️
by @RMac18 @maggieNYTnytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/… Elon Musk's X removed my tweet and froze my account for linking to a redacted version of the Vance dossier. A Google search for 'scribd jd vance dossier' will show results with a link to the redacted dossier on Scribd. Read the whole story at @thequeenzone
thequeenzone.com/elon-musks-fre…Image
Sep 6 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵NEW: A spokesperson from Langston University, an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) emailed me this statement about a post on X by a blue-check Premium account that frequently posts racially charged content. Elon Musk regularly interacts with the account on X. Image Elon Musk interacts with this blue-check Premium account regularly, boosting its racially charged content to his 196 million followers.

Langston University told me the post is 'inaccurate,' and more accurate graduation rate data is here: nces.ed.gov/ipeds/dfr/2023…
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Sep 1 8 tweets 4 min read
⚡️New by @faizsays @washingtonpost

“Clearly, the game right now is monetization, having advertisers coming to X.” - Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, X’s biggest investor after Elon Musk himself.

Musk to advertisers, 2023: "Go fuck yourself."

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Image World Bank halts paid advertising on X after CBS News finds its promoted ads under racist content.

Aug 30 5 tweets 2 min read
🚨NEW: A spokesperson from the Charles Schwab Corporation emailed this statement to me today, in response to my inquiry about Chuck Schwab, its founder & chairman, donating $2 million in April to two Super PACs that are working to get Republicans elected to the U.S. Congress. Image Chuck Schwab gave $2 mil in April to Super PACs working to get Republicans elected to Congress. He gave $1.5 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, which "has one goal: to build a Republican Senate majority."

@Bloomberg 2019: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…Image
Jun 12 10 tweets 4 min read
🚨NEW by me: Adult bullying has spiked. Trump & Musk pave the way. I spoke with experts:

John Gartner @duty2warn, Jennifer Fraser @bulliedbrain, Steven Hassan @CultExpert, Bill Eddy @HighConflict, Renee DiResta @noUpside & @PeterHotez Via @thequeenzone
thequeenzone.com/experts-reveal… Dr. Gartner said Trump "feels pleasure, joy from degrading other people, enjoying crushing people. He feels entitled to attack.” He added, “His bullying is more disinhibited with dementia. He has no filter. He’s more erratic, impulsive, lashing out in random and confused ways.” Image
May 10 4 tweets 2 min read
🎆NEW: A European Commission spokesperson emailed me, saying the EU's investigation into X under the DSA is "still ongoing" and includes "risk of disseminating illegal content." Holocaust denial is illegal in Germany. The post below remains intact on X. 1/
Image The EU spokesperson said the DSA requests "non-arbitrary enforcement" of terms and conditions. The @AuschwitzMuseum said they reported the Holocaust denial post above to X as prohibited post: "Violent event denial" but they received no response from X. 2/
Feb 16 8 tweets 3 min read
🎆NEW by me for @HillReporter:

X / Twitter has promised advertisers brand safety. But several companies and orgs told me they had concerns after their ads appeared next to pro-Hitler and antisemitic content.

Does brand safety exist for advertisers on X?
hillreporter.com/does-brand-saf…
Image A spokesperson for Edmunds, a division of CarMax $KMX, messaged me, “Like all other X advertisers, Edmunds does not control when or where the ads may appear to users as they use the platform,”
after Edmunds' ad had appeared next to an antisemitic post. hillreporter.com/does-brand-saf…
Jan 17 5 tweets 2 min read
Stephen Miller is behind America First Legal’s racist hashtag #DemolishDEI. Miller was Trump’s senior racist advisor.

Elon Musk boosted Miller’s election denial BS on @X last week. Musk is dedicated to spreading racism. Don’t do business with Musk’s @X. Image Stephen Miller and Elon Musk are a toxic racist pair. Don’t do business with @X. #DemolishDEI
Jan 10 10 tweets 4 min read
Shopify has announced a partnership with Elon Musk's @X. I asked @Shopify how it reconciles Shopify's commitment to diversity with Elon Musk's attack on DEI. Musk said 'DEI must DIE' and called it 'discrimination.' The CEO of Shopify @tobi blocked me. My question to $SHOP stands. Image How does @Shopify reconcile its commitment to diversity with Elon Musk's attack on DEI, diversity and inclusion? @X has announced a new partnership with $SHOP
Jan 5 7 tweets 4 min read
Yesterday, GOP Sen. JD Vance and Elon Musk called out Mark Cuban and the @dallasmavs on diversity and inclusion. Musk called DEI ‘the definition of racism.’

In Nov, Media Matters reported that ads on X for the @NBA Mexico appeared next to posts with white nationalist hashtags.
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Both Elon Musk and JD Vance were apparently triggered by Mark Cuban's thread in support of DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion. So they clapped back at Cuban with silly questions about the @dallasmavs, the @NBA team Cuban owns.
Sep 5, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
🚨"Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League for defamation, claiming that the nonprofit organization’s statements about rising hate speech on the social media platform have torpedoed X’s advertising revenue." - @CNN

Elon blames the Jews. 👇

#BrandedFeatures The post saying 'f___ the jews' was apparently deleted last evening -- after garnering nearly 2 million views in 3 days. Image
Sep 3, 2023 10 tweets 4 min read
Twitter X CEO @lindayaX is a scheduled speaker at @voxmedia's Code Conference, Sept 26-27.

Hosted by @verge EiC Nilay Patel @reckless, @platformer Founder @CaseyNewton & @CNBC senior correspondent @JBoorstin.

Why is this post still up? Does it violate @X Hateful Conduct Policy? Image Twitter @X Hateful Conduct policy here:

"we prohibit behavior that targets individuals or groups with abuse based on their perceived membership in a protected category [like religion or race]."

help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p…
Jul 15, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
.@RobertKennedyJr said “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

1. What is his source for this bullshit?

2. Who is funding this psychotic asshole? These were my Jewish relatives killed in the Holocaust. @RobertKennedyJr should apologize for his #Antisemitism Image
Jun 2, 2023 7 tweets 8 min read
1/5 Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla. He and Tesla board members have a fiduciary duty to $TSLA shareholders to protect the reputation of the company. Elon is damaging Tesla brand with Twitter #HateSpeech. Tesla board members are liable.

#CorpGov #RiskManagement #Branding Image 2/5 Twitter Head of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin resigned yesterday. Elon is using Twitter to propagate hate, unfettered. Musk is destroying #Tesla brand. $TSLA shareholders are vulnerable. Tesla board members are liable.

#CorpGov #RiskManagement reuters.com/technology/twi…
Mar 27, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
SCOOP: Amy Kremer’s Women for America First Tax-Exempt Status Revoked, by me @ranttmedia

Organizer of Trump's Jan 6 rally had its tax-exempt status revoked for non-filing for 3 consecutive years. IRS spox: "May be inadvertent or may be otherwise." rantt.com/legal-liabilit… It's not clear how funds donated to Women For America First were allocated, nor what action, if any, the IRS may take to investigate donations. E.g., Publix heiress Julie Fancelli donated $300K to WFAF in advance of the Jan. 6 rally, WaPo first reported. rantt.com/legal-liabilit…
Dec 12, 2022 6 tweets 5 min read
I emailed @Tesla board chair Robyn Denholm and head of investor relations Martin Viecha today with questions about Elon Musk's #Twitter activities and his impact on $TSLA. I will report if I receive a response. Source reporting in thread below. #CorpGov #RiskManagement Image Tesla approval rating sinks into negative territory, survey finds. $TSLA
marketwatch.com/amp/story/tesl… via @MarketWatch
Sep 9, 2022 8 tweets 10 min read
Board of Salem Media Group has a fiduciary duty to shareholders to manage risk

Salem Media took a financial hit from publisher @Regnery’s recall of @DineshDSouza’s book ‘2000 Mules.’

Do $SALM shareholders want to assume more risk? #riskmanagement #CopGov
npr.org/2022/09/08/112… Are largest shareholders of Salem Media Group, parent company of @Regnery, publisher of Dinesh D’Souza’s recalled book 2000 Mules concerned about potential liability risk? $SALM #2000Mules #riskmanagement #CorpGov
Sep 9, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Publisher of @DineshDSouza's '2000 Mules' book @Regnery told @NPR that "'some advance copies were distributed in error.'"

"Some advance copies"? Not exactly. ALL copies distributed to Amazon, Walmart, and Barnes & Noble, etc.

What was the "publishing error"? #2000Mules Screenshot of publisher's notice to book distributor for Walmart. FULL RECALL of Dinesh D'Souza's '2000 Mules' book.

And spokesperson for Barnes & Noble emailed me:

"We can confirm that the publisher did notify us of the recall and for all books to be removed." #2000Mules
Aug 29, 2022 5 tweets 4 min read
🚨NEW: Publisher of @DineshDSouza's book 2000 MULES has issued a FULL RECALL. I received this image from a book vendor for Walmart. The book's election fraud premise has been widely debunked.

I've asked publisher @Regnery why it issued the full recall. Will report. #Publishing Image “'My opinion then and my opinion now is that the election was not stolen by fraud,' Barr said. 'And I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that, including the ‘2000 Mules’ movie.'” @reveal revealnews.org/article/true-t…
Aug 29, 2022 9 tweets 7 min read
Charles Schwab, founder of @CharlesSchwab donated $36,500 to the Republican National Committee in July. Chuck gave $1 million to GOP super PACs affiliated with Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy in June.

@ProjectLincoln was right about Schwab. $SCHW

"The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump conservatives, had featured Schwab in a recent campaign highlighting companies that donated to President Trump or the election objectors in Congress."

Chuck Schwab is still donating to GOP groups. $SCHW
nytimes.com/2021/01/13/bus…
Aug 12, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
I have reached out to $FOX Corp. Chief Communications Officer Brian Nick to ask about Brian Kilmeade using an apparently photoshopped image of the judge involved in approving the Mar-a-Lago warrant. #CorpGov I will report if I receive a response from Brian Nick or from anyone at @FoxNews or $FOX Corp.
#CorpGov