Elon Musk Disses Black Twitter and His Black Workers

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What is undeniable is that, under Elon Musk’s ownership, Twitter has been an unmitigated disaster, marked by an explosion in hate speech,

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celeb defections from the platform, advertiser moratoriums, mass firings, mass quitting, and at least one firing of an executive whom Musk initially begged not to fire.

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What Musk hasn’t said is what he thinks of Black Twitter, which is perhaps the most important community to have emerged organically

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and to have elevated Twitter’s significance as a platform for discourse, action, and storytelling along the way. That wouldn’t have mattered until today.

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Nobody cared what Twitter co-founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey felt about Black Twitter since it was apparent that it was excellent for business when he was in charge.

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Musk, on the other hand, is a different story: his notions of “free speech” on the platform mean allowing Donald Trump and other hatemongers to return,

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and as a manager, he’s fired thousands of employees as part of an intentional internal strategy to make the company as diverse as the voices on its platform.

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And now, a few weeks into his term as “chief twit,” we have a better picture of how Musk views Black Twitter and the company’s Black personnel.

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Musk made fun of t-shirts designed by the company’s “Blackbirds” employee resource group and criticised the Black Lives Matter movement in a now-deleted tweet.

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