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tech reporter @NYTimes . ryan.mac @nytimes .com & rmac18 @protonmail .com. DMs open. On Signal: rmac.18

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Ryan Mac 🙃

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Elon blocked me on Twitter. Then he suspended me for reporting on it. Between all that, @kateconger and I decided to write a book on him, his takeover, and everything that happened. CHARACTER LIMIT comes out in September. You can pre-order it now:

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Character Limit by Kate Conger, Ryan Mac: 9780593656136 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“The definitive account of how the world’s richest man, in a fit of unbridled vanity and arrogance, took over and destroyed our digital town square.” —John Carreyrou,...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Elon once tried to get me to write a story that a Thai-based British man, who had criticized him, was a “child rapist” and took a 12 year old bride based on information someone sent him. That someone ended up being a conman pretending to be a private investigator.

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The Onion went on a tear in the last 12 hours and then this happened

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This is Grimes' mom. Thanksgiving is going to be fun.

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Musk is talking about "his obsession with truth" on stage right now. Four years ago, he tried to get me to write that a British cave rescuer in Thailand was a "child rapist" because of false information fed to him by a fake private investigator.

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My favorite corporate Juneteenth moment is when Elon Musk told Tesla and SpaceX workers that Juneteenth was considered a US holiday, then later clarified that employees who wanted to observe it would have to take a paid time off day.

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Elon Musk went to the Texas-Mexico border to do a livestream about immigration. The video had a few technical difficulties and then eventually froze. A few minutes ago, Musk sent a three word company-wide email: "Please fix this."

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Elon Musk has said he's about context on tweets, so here's context for these shirts: They came from Twitter's Black employee resource group and were popularized by @jack , who wore a version around to conferences to support the group (and was sometimes ridiculed for it).

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Google cofounder Sergey Brin at SFO protest: "I'm here because I'm a refugee." (Photo from Matt Kang/Forbes)

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The Coinbase CEO wrote a long thread discussing how their super bowl commercial came about and suggesting there are lessons in being non-traditional and not listening to ad agencies. But then he gets called out lol.

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Wow. Mark Zuckerberg basically got cyberbullied so much over his company’s metaverse graphics that he announced an update.

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Wait. What does any of this mean.

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*cough*

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Elon Musk has been directing subordinates to comb through Twitter's Slack and make lists of people making fun of him or his plans for firing. They've also been monitoring employee's tweets. Latest w/ @kateconger and @MikeIsaac )

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Elon Musk Fires Twitter Employees Who Criticized Him (Published 2022)

Mr. Musk, who is rapidly transforming the social media company, also has cut its contractor work force.

www.nytimes.com

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Getting the whole gang together: Tim Apple Jeff Amazon Elon Tesla Mark Facebook Jack Twitter Sundar Google Larry Oracle Mark Salesforce Daruber Satya Soft Reed Flix

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sweet baby rays book holder. SWEET BABY RAYS BOOK HOLDER.

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talking to some Twitter employees and they say that knowing what device an account tweets from can be a strong signal in helping someone determine a real person from a bot or other automation

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This is a blueprint for repressive governments everywhere. If Twitter doesn't censor the content you want, simply threaten to cut off the service. Its owner just put it in writing.

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With X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the room, Elon Musk just told advertisers who have pulled out of X — including Disney CEO Bob Iger — to go fuck themselves.

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Musk can make covid jokes now, but it should always be remembered that he doubted the pandemic’s seriousness and spread misinformation during the crucial early months, all while forcing his employees to come into work during it. Poking fun at yourself doesn’t make that go away.

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@jack . @jack had been to Ferguson, following the killing of Michael Brown, in his home state of Missouri. The #StayWoke messaging was twofold: 1) a call for awareness to the disproportionate police violence against Black people and 2) support for Black employees and Black Twitter

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Just watched someone fill a mason jar with hand sanitizer from a public airport dispenser like it was Mountain Dew from an Arby’s soda fountain.

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Not only are Facebook's services and apps down for the public, its internal tools and communications platforms, including Workplace, are out as well. No one can do any work. Several people I've talked to said this is the equivalent of a "snow day" at the company.

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X, the company formerly known as Twitter, told employees in an internal note today that the company is worth $19 billion, down from the $44 billion Elon Musk paid for it a year ago.

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My head is spinning

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For further context, Musk may also want to think about a lawsuit Tesla lost over rampant racial abuse at his electric car company.

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Menial Tasks, Slurs and Swastikas: Many Black Workers at Tesla Say They Faced Racism (Published...

African-American workers have reported threats, humiliation and barriers to promotion at the plant. The automaker says there is no pattern of bias.

www.nytimes.com

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hell yea

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The NYT tax story is really a breakthrough in reporting and presentation. It's thorough and dense for those looking to parse details, but there's one punchline detail that folks will remember for a long time: $750.

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@jack But instead, for Musk and his advisers, it's an opportunity to make some political point. Which, sure, he owns Twitter now. But he should consider the communities he's ridiculing here that have made Twitter, the company and the social network, what it is today.

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One year and 2.5 million deaths ago

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one spicy meatball of an RT

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The top employee voted question at today's internal Facebook Q&A for Mark Zuckerberg: "What is our next big product, which does not imitate already existing products on the market?"

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As protestors stormed the Capitol, Facebook employees took to their internal workplace message board to express their fears and ask that Trump be removed from the platform. In response, management shut down threads and prevented them from commenting.

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Facebook Forced Its Employees To Stop Discussing Trump's Coup Attempt

“What excuse did we use not to ban him this time?”

www.buzzfeednews.com

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Six former Twitter execs and longtime employees sued Twitter and Elon Musk in US district court in Delaware on Tues, alleging they violated severance agreements. The lawsuit seems to corroborate much of our & others' reporting about the co not paying bills

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gotta wonder if a free speech absolutist would enforce a non-disclosure agreement

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Oh no help

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Twitter, under @Jack , was proud of that messaging. They provided the t-shirts as free merch to give away at tech conferences. You could purchase the shirts as well.

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That Bailey did this under multiple signs reading “Dream Big Fight Hard” is only further proof that I am voting for this pup in 2020.

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"refused to take the meeting"

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@jack Of course, Musk could ask Dorsey about the shirts, the history of the phrase at Twitter, Blackbirds, and the Black Twitter community. Dorsey is an investor in Musk and has called him the "singular solution I trust" to keep Twitter alive.

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Rep Jayapal: "Do you copy your competitors?" Zuckerberg: "We've certainly adopted features..." A Facebook employee who just texted me: "We’re literally copying TikTok right now."

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i guess the dall didn’t go well

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A few days ago when Elon Musk's emails to Tesla and SpaceX about restricting work from home were reported, some smart folks predicted it'd be the pretense for a mass layoff. Lo and behold:

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Exclusive: Elon Musk wants to cut 10% of Tesla jobs

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a "super bad feeling" about the economy and needs to cut about 10% of salaried staff at the electric carmaker, he said in emails seen by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Nine days apart

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Kinda stunned at the lack of reaction from traditional US print and tv press about our story. It details an employee with direct allegations of Facebook turning a blind eye toward electoral and political disruption around the world, and it's been crickets.

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lmao... the White House/Melania Trump Be Best pamphlet about your kids being online is almost the exact same thing that the FTC published in Jan. 2014: 2014: 2018:

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Elon Musk sent me an email last week. In it, he accused a British cave rescuer of being "a child rapist" who took a "12-year-old bride." He didn't provide any evidence of those claims. He also called me a "fucking asshole."

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In New Email, Elon Musk Accuses Cave Rescuer Of Being A “Child Rapist” And “Hopes” For A Lawsuit

In an email to BuzzFeed News, Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused a Thai cave rescuer of moving to Thailand to take a child bride. The rescuer denied all the claims.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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Every Californian over 30 when it rains: “We need it.”

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The man just does not have the heart of a poster

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*takes huge bong rip*

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I guess Brian didn’t make them sign NDAs lololol

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This is the equivalent of Olive Garden telling customers they have can free dessert on their birthdays if they pay for it.

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This ad just describes a Ponzi scheme right? Am I going insane how did this run.

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JD Vance is literally being backed by a hedge fund magnate and a Facebook board member.

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And for even further context, let's remember a book written by his adviser David Sacks called the Diversity Myth, which he later apologized for. The book called some date rapes "belated regret" and criticized diversity pushes on college campuses.

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Zenefits CEO David Sacks apologizes for parts of a 1996 book he co-wrote with Peter Thiel that...

It also took sharp aim at multiculturalism at Stanford University.

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I want to feel as amped as Staples employees giving their new corporate logo a standing ovation.

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Twitter is facing 1,986 demands for arbitration from former employees, according to a letter posted by a law firm representing some of those workers. 97% of those demands include claims for breach of contract. 762 demands also allege discrimination.

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A Facebook content moderator contracted through Accenture in Austin quit this morning with a blistering internal note. I’ve typed it out in full so people can read it for themselves.

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Seems misleading to conflate a "view" on a video with someone viewing a tweet. Musk is basically saying that if you just scroll by a tweet and barely glance at it, that counts as a view in that counter on the far right. For context, YouTube counts a video view after a user has

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The Bronny James news has been out for 30 minutes but here's some vaccine speculation from the owner of Twitter

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On his now frozen video, Musk said he was worried there would be so many viewers that it would crash the stream. This is now a common refrain from him. Previously on a troubled stream with Ron DeSantis, Musk and his team claimed tech difficulties were due to "melting servers."

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Elon Musk sent an email earlier tonight to Twitter employees encouraging them to subscribe to creators on the platform and then expense those costs back to the company.

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This is the most important Facebook story I've ever published:

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"I Have Blood On My Hands": A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation

A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation — and failed to act.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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Facebook employees are furious and unloaded on Mark Zuckerberg during an all-hands meeting yesterday over his handling of QAnon and a Kenosha militia page that remained online after a shooting that killed two people. Here's my dispatch from inside:

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Facebook Employees Are Outraged At Mark Zuckerberg's Explanations Of How It Handled The Kenosha...

Following days of violence and civil unrest, Facebook employees wonder if their company is doing enough to stifle militia and QAnon groups stoking violence on the social network.

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Musk's Twitter reduced maternity leave down to 2 weeks for employees in some states. The company changed the policy recently after employees became outraged and some quit.

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Chaser/double chaser

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This is an apartment building in Valletta, the capital of Malta. It houses six flats. One of those is the registered residence of one of the richest men in the world: Peter Thiel. What is he doing in Malta? Applying for citizenship.

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Imagine becoming a reporter to write and publish this.

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This is not temporary: He is permanently suspended.

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cant wait to feel this again

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Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, just announced a $10 billion personal commitment to combat climate change.

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Give whoever is running the Sky Sports Instagram account a raise

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This is probably one of the biggest news moments of the year and Twitter has become such a low trust environment. No idea what is actually credible. The “for you” page is just accounts who bought verified checkmarks talking out of their asses about the war.

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I grew up on stories of my mom's escape from Vietnam. My grandparents sewed gold into the lining of their kids clothes and then ran to get on one of the last refugee ships out. The pictures out of Afghanistan are devastating for her. She said it looks worse than Saigon.

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This also comes after Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino said this on stage yesterday: "Who wouldn't want Elon Musk sitting by their side running product?" (Some in the crowd laughed after her statement.)

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This is gold

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@elonmusk @serdarsprofile @brianacton SpaceX social media person worrying about their job like

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Elon Musk's Twitter is: -No longer paying rent at any of its offices -Reconsidering whether to pay employees severance -Not working with lawyer Alex Spiro -Getting legal help from SpaceX Latest w/ @MikeIsaac , @kateconger , @nytmike

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Musk Shakes Up Twitter’s Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs (Published 2022)

Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.

www.nytimes.com

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@mosseri Are you saying that you need to change your app to copy a new app because your copying of another app changed how people used Instagram?

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Guy is wearing a sweatshirt saying “ASK ME ABOUT BITCOIN.” I ask him about bitcoin. He responds, “I smoke too much weed to give financial advice.” I got owned.

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Twitter spokesperson on why Jacob Wohl's account was suspended: "The account was suspended for multiple violations of the Twitter Rules, specifically creating and operating fake accounts."

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Then after getting called out he added a 12th tweet to his thread, 12 hours after his previous tweet, to credit the “creative firm” though not by name. Beautiful.

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This is called the Sonic movie approach to product management.

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After we published a story on an internal report detailing Facebook's failures in preventing the Stop the Steal movement, the company moved to prevent employees from accessing the report. So we published the full text for all to read.

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Facebook Stopped Employees From Reading An Internal Report About Its Role In The Insurrection. You...

After BuzzFeed News reported on an internal document that examined the social network’s failings leading up to the Capitol riot, many of Facebook's employees were prevented from accessing it.

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The email to Tesla employees about it is equally great.

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Hmmmmmmmm

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Just spoke with @JxckSweeney who runs the now suspended @elonjet account that tracked Elon Musk's private jet using public flight data. He says he woke up this morning to find the account suspended. No reason was given.

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Imagine telling your kids you saw Imagine Dragons at Woodstock and your kids immediately punching you in the face

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This sign is a pretty good indication that no one has any idea about what they’re talking about in Davos.

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My dude sent a process server to my place of work in an attempt to depose me for reporting on him

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If you’re a journalist who wants more freedom to write and a higher income, then publish directly on this platform!

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So to get this straight: Earth's richest person tries international diplomacy on microblogging platform and then gets dunked on by various world leaders on said platform, which he eventually may be forced to buy for $44 billion. No notes. 10/10.

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Amazon Web Services is cutting ties to Parler.

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Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service

Amazon's suspension of Parler's account means that unless it can find another host, once the ban takes effect on Sunday Parler will go offline.

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Elon Musk Hired A Convicted Felon To Investigate The Cave Rescuer Who Is Now Suing Him

The Tesla CEO paid James Howard-Higgins more than $50,000 to look into a man he thought was a pedophile. Musk, however, failed to examine Howard-Higgins’ past.

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we all post on here like plebs, but this guy publishes undefeated takes every week in a global news outlet

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I like how @ukraine follows 24 accounts that are mostly other countries and then… New Jersey.

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I... don’t think this kid knows what “nothing” means

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“woke enough”

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looks like some mass unfollow event where a few dozen accounts were unfollowed, tho tesla is still following 33 accounts

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now just waiting for Elon's mom to weigh in to completely destroy my Sunday

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I dont know how, but they got a bus out here blasting the Clash. #sfprotest

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