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He’ll never actually do it. He simply wants to encourage more people to say outrageous things so engagement levels increase as everyone does dumb shit.
Good luck to anyone who falls for this.
When I look at the current state of the internet, I pine for the simpler days of the nineties when a/s/l and stormfront.org look downright warm and fuzzy in comparison. That was just weird individuals being weird. Now it's institutionalized across the entire Internet.
I suspect he may have read this article and taken it to heart:
"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate
lol sure he will. He won’t even pay rent.
Remember that time he offered to solve world hunger but then didn't because "nah" basically?
They didn’t come up with a plan and when he asked they were like 🤷♂️
No, but we can trust him this time. All those other lies were completely unrelated. /s
It's possible. He literally burnt an extra 150 million dollars by bumping his offer for twitter to 54.20 just to make it a stupid 420 meme. It's not like he doesn't have the money to pay those bills.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will pay the legal bills and sue on the behalf of people who have been treated “unfairly” by employers because of posting or liking something on the site formerly known as Twitter.
“If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill,” Musk said in a post on X late on Saturday, adding that there will be no limits to funding the bills.
“And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too,” Musk said later in response to a post about nothing changing behavior in the US faster than a threat of legal action.
The figures came as the company is going through organizational changes and is looking to boost falling advertising revenue.
After 17 years with an iconic blue bird logo that came to symbolize the broadcasting of ideas to the world, Musk renamed Twitter as X and unveiled a new logo in July, marking a focus on building an “everything app”.
Earlier in July, the billionaire whose other companies include SpaceX and Tesla had said that the social media platform’s cashflow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load.
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Didn't he fire one of the twitter engineers because he corrected him on a Twitter thread?
He doesn't even pay his own bills. What makes people believe he'll actually pay theirs? He may pay one person's bill at first to get a flurry of news attention, but he'll definitely leave everyone else out to rot.
He's not offering it to former employees, but they should absolutely go for it very very publicly. Musk is fishing for money from Trump and Kanye, it's probably some kind of laundering scheme.
He will have to sue HIMSELF! diabolical!
Musk is fishing for money from Trump
Trump is very obviously not coming back to Twitter, doesn't have an employer, and they're (supposedly) paying for the service, not charging for it, so I'm not show how that theory pans out.
I think he is sorely underestimating how many people are going to contact him about this offer. lol
He’s not going to pay them shit. He didn’t pay his cloud bills or office rent.
When are these landlords and services going to start shutting him down? My popcorn is getting stale over here.
When you have money you can behave like you don't and get away with it for a long time.
Also how many lawyers.
he won’t even pay his rent or his own legal bills… he stiffs his own employees on severance packages. he’s lying if he promises anything.
A Musk (or Trump) Never pays his debts.
Two fantasies - one, that anybody's been persecuted for posting on what was the most popular communication tool in the world, and two, that a narcissist ignoring his own bills will ever cover yours.
People don't get fired for where they post.
People get fired for what they post.
Does this sub post anything other than Elon Musk bullshit?!
I find it fascinating to watch overall, but yeah how billionaires decide to administer their website isn't really technology. Categorizing it as such feels like a consequence of a decision some boomer made back in the 90s to administer their newspaper that got adopted by default as the method websites are administered (which still isn't technology).
Is it the same guy who barely can afford to pay the servers and owes wherever he looks?
If any right-wing nutjob is reading this: Don't count on him actually paying something for you.
If any right-wing nutjob is reading this: You should count on him actually paying for you. Go wild! But make sure to use your public profile so people don't think you're a bot!
Can't Musk posts just go to EnoughMuskSpam?
Will he be paying his own bills ? Think quite a few are overdrawn
LOL
Imagine Elon Musk actually fucking PAYING HIS DEBTS
YEAH PAL PULL THE OTHER ONE
Musk cannot even pay for the office space that he is leasing. What makes anyone that he will pay for your legal bills? What shit crock.
I could see this being a fishing expedition looking for a “case” to rally folks behind and to muddy the waters.
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There, does that sound any more believable?
No. He doesn't pay his own bills!
Everybody is (rightly) saying this is a bullshit PR move and that he'll never pay.
Then why are you up voting this?
If we all know it's meaningless bs and non-news, downvote it. Stop giving it attention. Stop giving it the eyeballs and newscycles that he wants.
Any content aggregator would be better if people actually voted down meaningless drivel thats clearly PR internet bait
