Ari Emanuel returned to his hometown today to decry “the virus of antisemitism and hate and division” that is “spreading and attacking the foundations of our culture.”
22.11.2022 - 05:13 / perezhilton.com
Well, he’s back. Kind of. Elon Musk did exactly what we all assumed he would do when he took over Twitter and fired all the people in charge of ethics and safety and whatnot. He reinstated the account of Donald Trump.
For those who don’t know, the former POTUS’ account was permanently disabled in January 2021. He’d been posting misinformation his entire time in office, of course, but it was the “Big Lie” after the 2020 election that finally crossed the line. He was clearly the source of the fervor which led to the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol, and yet his rhetoric about the election being stolen only continued.
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Twitter’s legal policy team, led by exec Vijaya Gadde (whom Elon fired on his first day) came to the controversial decision that Trump’s account had to go “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” They wrote in an explanation of the tweets that broke the bird’s back:
In the end, the President of the United States may have been above the law for some reason, but he wasn’t above Twitter’s terms of service.
Elon’s ruling? Inciting violence is OK, just so long as you don’t make fun of him personally. He posted a poll as a show of good faith that he still believed in democracy…
But let’s be real. He was always going to reinstate Trump. It was like the centerpiece of everything he’s doing on Twitter — throwing away all the careful consideration about safety, yelling about FREE SPEECH, pushing right wing conspiracy theories. Trump’s account just tied the whole room together. It was starting to feel like the only reason he spent $44 billion on an $8 billion company!
The unexpected thing? Trump doesn’t seem to want to return!
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Ari Emanuel returned to his hometown today to decry “the virus of antisemitism and hate and division” that is “spreading and attacking the foundations of our culture.”
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Akon reckons that Kanye West’s recent spate of offensive remarks and stunts – which have drawn much criticism, of course, and seen him banned from both Twitter and Instagram, and also lose numerous business deals – are all part of a bid to become the next President of the United States.Even stranger, Akon presents this like it’s some kind of good and clever thing. West – he has decided – is not only planning to run for the US presidency again in 2024, but has recognised that if he’s going to be successful he needs to draw votes away from Donald Trump.
Yes, it finally happened. On a not-so-super Tuesday in November, Donald Trump announced he’s yet again running for President. The guy who refused to agree to a peaceful transfer of power after losing in 2020 and then took a bunch of highly classified documents with him on the way out — and is quite probably facing a future indictment over it. Sigh.