> In the seven months since Musk bought the company he singlehandedly fired nearly every employee, accidentally locked the remainder out of the headquarters, turned blue-check validation into a living nightmare for international brands, un-banned some of the most notorious and repugnant users from white nationalists to bigots and racists, mis-branded news outlets as state-sponsored, threatened to open a news agency to impersonation on his platform, cancelled most of the API, and tried to extort the very brands his platform depended on in a cash-for-validation scheme that backfired spectacularly.

Which one of those claims wasn't real?

"Singlehandedly fired nearly every employee" <- false for normal uses of "nearly every", going from 8000 to 1500 but a ton will be voluntary leavers

"turned blue-check validation into a living nightmare for international brands" <- brands now have yellow checks

"mis-branded news outlets as state-sponsored" <- all the ones with that label that I'm aware of have state funding

what isn't real is the disaster you're trying to paint, its the framing

elon's a great guy who does amazing work, and twitter is booming, making more money than ever even

> twitter is booming and people love him more than ever

Booming with cat and dog torture videos?

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/cat-dog-torture-video...

Exactly. The list of talking points are a Mastodon meme. Catastrophizing everything into fascism.