“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints.”

Re:“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council wit... by wyclif on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:06PM (#33380603)

"Forced into buying it" is really not an accurate way to think about it. It makes it sound like he never wanted to buy Twitter, when in fact he did want to buy it for less money because he knew the valuation was too high (because of bot farms, managerial bloat, &c.)

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Re:“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council wit... by saghm on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:57PM (#33380829)

> he knew the valuation was too high (because of bot farms, managerial bloat, &c.)

"He knew the valuation was too high" is really not an accurate way to think about it. It makes it sound like he successfully proved those claims, when in fact he failed to present compelling enough evidence in court when he tried to use legal action to back out.

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Re:“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council wit... by wyclif on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:34PM (#33401786)

Oops! Turns out Wachtell & Turner and the previous Twitter board hid evidence of fraudulent metrics. This could easily turn into legal popcorn time: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586885887341645824

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Re:“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council wit... by riffraff on Saturday October 29, 2022 @02:10AM (#33381440)

He set the price, than backpedaled not because he discovered new information, which he did not, but because the market slumped.

We know this because he decided not to go to court to prove that Twitter had hidden information.

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Re:“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council wit... by pjc50 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:05AM (#33382306)

He said he'd buy it at $54.20 and they held him to that. If he didn't mean it he shouldn't have said it (a constant Elon problem)

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