Musk's Twitter Purchase Fails!

[BlueEyesInLevis]

Musk's Twitter Purchase Fails After 138,000 Board Votes Found Overnight

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Elon Musk’s bid to purchase Twitter came up short after 138,000 board votes were found at 2 a.m., a company spokesman confirmed Tuesday. Musk had been in talks to purchase the company for $44 billion.

“We really thought Musk was going to pull this one out,” said Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. “The yes votes had a strong lead when I went to bed last night, but that was before we counted all the mail-in votes that one of our employees found in locker 142 at the bus terminal.”

When the final votes were tallied, the takeover bid failed by a final tally of 10 votes for, 138,000 votes against. While the final result came as a shock to most observers, Agrawal said the election was fair. “Twitter takes election integrity very seriously,” he noted. “I can confidently say this was the most secure election in American history.”

A shocked Musk took to Twitter Tuesday to express his outrage. “Those ballots…that’s a whole big scam,” Musk tweeted. “The only way I could have lost is if this was rigged! I refuse to accept the results of this vote!”

Musk later tweeted that he was planning a demonstration at Twitter headquarters on May 6 to protest the results. His account was then permanently suspended by Twitter for questioning the integrity of the election.

 

[ll74]

Oh, look at the wit.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Oh, look at the wit.

Where? I must have missed it.

 

[Rotadom]

Where? I must have missed it.

ll74 spelled "twit" wrong.

 

[Rightguide]

Oh, look at the wit.

Yep, your backside is probably going to be taking on a lot more hurt before this story slips from the headlines.

 

[BlueEyesInLevis]

Libs can laugh at anyone but themselves.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Twitter currently bans this type of content. BabylonBee is banned because Twitter thinks their parody is a dangerous threat to democracy. Lol.

 

[BlueEyesInLevis]

Dont forget Libs of TicToc. (Proving my previous statement)

 

[Wrong Element]

Twitter currently bans this type of content. BabylonBee is banned because Twitter thinks their parody is a dangerous threat to democracy. Lol.

Incorrect.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Incorrect.

Indefinitely suspended?

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Yep, your backside is probably going to be taking on a lot more hurt before this story slips from the headlines.

Why do you always fantasize about male anal rape?

 

[phrodeau]

Indefinitely suspended?

Locked for hateful conduct, for a period of twelve hours following deletion of the offensive tweet.
Babylon Bee hasn’t yet deleted the offensive tweet.

 

[Booboobear84]

Twitter currently bans this type of content. BabylonBee is banned because Twitter thinks their parody is a dangerous threat to democracy. Lol.

I suspect they ban it because it threatens to keep democracy alive. Twitter likes mobocracy

 

[phrodeau]

I suspect they ban it because it threatens to keep democracy alive. Twitter likes mobocracy

They’re not banned. They are playing victim.

So is Trump, BTW.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Locked for hateful conduct, for a period of twelve hours following deletion of the offensive tweet.
Babylon Bee hasn’t yet deleted the offensive tweet.

So silly. It’s a parody site.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

I suspect they ban it because it threatens to keep democracy alive. Twitter likes mobocracy

Apparently was determined to be “offensive.”

 

[Fermina_Daza]

This is why I never left MySpace *nods*

 

[phrodeau]

So silly. It’s a parody site.

Yes, a parody site that violated the hateful conduct policy.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-conduct-policy

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Yes, a parody site that violated the hateful conduct policy.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-conduct-policy

BabylonBee posted a spoof headline announcing the selection of Rachel Levine — a prominent transgender government official — as their pick for "Man of the Year." It was a satirical response to Levine's being named one of the top women of the year by USA Today. Yes, that actually happened.

 

[pecksniff]

BabylonBee posted a spoof headline announcing the selection of Rachel Levine — a prominent transgender government official — as their pick for "Man of the Year." It was a satirical response to Levine's being named one of the top women of the year by USA Today. Yes, that actually happened.

You speak as if it somehow should not have happened.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Libs can laugh at anyone but themselves.

Try being funny.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

You speak as if it somehow should not have happened.

Exactly. Hopefully Elon will put a stop to that nonsense.

 

[ll74]

Exactly. Hopefully Elon will put a stop to that nonsense.

He will if he gets the money from it

 

[phrodeau]

BabylonBee posted a spoof headline announcing the selection of Rachel Levine — a prominent transgender government official — as their pick for "Man of the Year." It was a satirical response to Levine's being named one of the top women of the year by USA Today. Yes, that actually happened.

I posted a link for your edification, but since you obviously didn’t read it, here is the relevant quote:

Repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone

We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

I posted a link for your edification, but since you obviously didn’t read it, here is the relevant quote:

Repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone

We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.

Check Twitter out sometime. What you highlighted in bold applies to an extremely large percentage of Twitter content. I guess the moderation algorithm prioritizes satirical “slurs.” Humor kills!