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Elon Musk, who owns Twitter, called for a lawsuit against Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert.

Some of the companies have said they need time to evaluate their advertising presence on Twitter as the company pursues a new direction. The tweet targeting Fauci came hours after Musk shared a meme that mocked Fauci over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The service was suspended after it gave rise to a flood of fake accounts impersonating public figures and brands but has since been reinstated. Last month, he said that the company is losing $4 million each day. Astronaut Scott Kelly, the twin brother of Sen. "I'm a big fan of Dr. "Courting vaccine deniers doesn't seem like a smart business strategy, but the issue is this: could you just leave a good man alone in your seemingly endless quest for attention? The comments from Musk are the latest in a series of conservative Twitter posts, including an endorsement last month for Republican candidates in the midterm elections. [reinstated](https://abcnews.go.com/US/elon-musk-trumps-twitter-account-reinstated/story?id=93638796) some formerly suspended accounts such as those belonging to Republican leaders like former President Donald Trump and Greene, and he stopped enforcement of a policy prohibiting the spread of COVID-19 misinformation. Fauci and how he's calmly guided our country through crisis," Sen. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Georgia, whom Musk reinstated on Twitter after a previous permanent ban over the spread of COVID-19 misinformation, applauded the attack on Fauci. [Elon Musk](https://abcnews.go.com/Business/timeline-elon-musks-tumultuous-twitter-acquisition-attempt/story?id=86611191) elicited backlash from liberal leaders and cheers from some conservative ones in response to a viral tweet on Sunday that called for Anthony Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious disease, to be prosecuted.

At a stage appearance Sunday with comedian Dave Chappelle, the audience made their disapproval of the new Twitter owner known.

The deafening noise, he reassured his Twitter followers, had in fact been “90% cheers & 10% boos”. All of which was perhaps ill-advised, given that he had spent much of the weekend spouting far-right tropes. That’s the sound of pending civil unrest.” After all, this was San Francisco, where thousands of employees were fired by Musk after his $44bn takeover of Twitter in October, and even those who kept their jobs were told by him that they had to work He raised his arms high in the air and spun around as though he’d just scored a World Cup decider. “Weren’t expecting this, were you?”

The White House reportedly views the social media platform as an “afterthought” that has little reach beyond the educated elite.

[by increasing](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3771542-musk-says-twitter-character-account-will-increase-to-4000/) the character limit for tweets from 280 to 4,000. [raucous boos](https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-booed-stadium-crowd-dave-chappelle-sf-boo-1849881192) from the crowd for [several minutes](https://twitter.com/SteveGoffman/status/1602229546383728640?s=20&t=xx0ktY1gJSR8e_a0EMhDLQ) straight. [most vexed](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601884478745374720) by the economic disturbances that could arise if pandemic mitigation measures are reinstated. [The Running of the Billionaires](https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2012/11/the-running-of-the-billionaires?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-120622)(2012) Chappelle, whose constant derision of trans and nonbinary people has [netted him](https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/03/dave-chappelle-comedy-liberal-fair-minded/) legions of right-wing fans, responded to the boos by mocking the wallets of attendees. [Wisconsin Death Trip](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/america-new-civil-war?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-120622)for Our Times [Radical Vision for Women Talking](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/12/awards-insider-women-talking-cover-sarah-polleys-radical-vision?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-120622) [A Brief Investigation](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/12/samuel-alito-elena-kagan-black-santa-kkk-ashley-madison?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-120622) [Ozempic Landed the Hollywood Market](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/ozempic-hollywood-diet-drug?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-120622)for Fast Results and Diet Drugs “Technically, it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (except during quiet periods), but, still, that’s a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life (frequent on Twitter),” [he tweeted](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1602305628734599168?s=20&t=fCHgJZlg6nik-6ZIl7zKZw), adding that all the jeers came from “unhinged [San Francisco] leftists.” But despite stoking widespread outrage on a near-daily basis, Musk still hardly appears to be on the president’s radar. “But it’s probably a minority.”

The Twitter CEO and "world's richest man" gets a cold reception onstage with comedian Dave Chappelle, with loud booing heard echoing around San Francisco's ...

Earlier in the year, Chappelle was tackled by an audience member at a performance. That's the sound of pending civil unrest." into the microphone before a loud air horn sounded.

A series of internal Twitter documents shared on the social media platform Monday offer a glimpse into internal debates among some of the company's ...

On January 6, Twitter had also warned Trump that additional violations of its rules could result in a permanent ban, something Weiss’ Monday tweet thread did not mention. Twitter’s “scaled enforcement” team also got involved with the evaluation, and questioned whether the Trump tweets could be considered glorification of violence, the screenshots show, which would violate the company’s policies. A screenshot from an internal Twitter slack conversation, where employees’ names have been redacted, shows one employee raising concerns about “censorship” while another notes that “we impose far stricter rules on effectively everyone else on the platform.” It’s not clear from Weiss’ tweets whether the employees in this discussion were in any way involved in the decision making process that led to Trump’s ban. Trump’s account was permanently suspended by Twitter two days after the attack on the Capitol conducted by some of his supporters, many inflamed by false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen. Musk on Monday also disbanded its Trust and Safety Council, a group of outside experts who consulted with the company on sensitive issues. But they stop short of showing that Twitter ignored its own rules in implementing the ban.

The advisory group of nearly 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, ...

Former Twitter employee Patricia Cartes, whose job it was to form the council in 2016, said Monday its dissolution "means there's no more checks and balances." The council members, who provided images of the email from Twitter to The Associated Press, spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fears of retaliation. The Trust and Safety Council, in fact, had as one of its advisory groups one that focused on child exploitation.

The Twitter Files promised accountability. Instead it morphed into a conspiracy with billionaire Elon Musk as the platform's saviour.

Like QAnon’s obsession with children being sacrificed, children’s sexual exploitation has become a key part of the Twitter Files discourse (even though there’s no reference to the matter in any of the original Twitter Files material). Taking a step back, the real story of the Twitter Files is that Musk — or someone on his behalf — has selected a few reporters (notably, none of them tech reporters and all with clear ideological bent) to pick through Twitter’s documents and piece together “proof” of what they already believed existed. At worst, this is a billionaire’s sponsored content for a platform that he desperately needs to make popular and profitable. Absence of evidence isn’t evidence, but it does take the wind out of the sails of claims that Twitter was systematically putting its finger on the scale. Claims of “censorship” and “shadow-banning” are just Twitter deciding to limit the reach of accounts that’ve broken the rules, as Even with access that most reporters could only dream of, they haven’t shown evidence the US government ordered the removal of content or accounts for political reasons or that Twitter acquiesced. The Twitter Files purport to show what happened behind the scenes in a couple of high-profile content moderation cases. Another reveals the content moderation tools and how they’ve been used to limit the accounts of conservative figures and politicians. Musk said that’s exactly what [his Twitter is planning to do, too](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593673339826212864?lang=en)! What you need to know is that the files revolve around the idea of content moderation. The problem is that these documents have been completely misconstrued and decontextualised in a way that makes them deeply misleading to most readers. The Twitter Files promised proof of big tech and the deep state working hand-in-hand to control the public debate.

The council was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on Twitter.

Dave Chappelle show attendees react to the comedian bringing special guest Elon Musk out to a wave of boos at the Chase Center in San Francisco.

During the few minutes that he was on stage, Musk deferred to Chappelle for instruction on how to handle the negative reactions, asking: “What should I say?” His friend’s advice? “Understandably, because of who Musk is as a person and me being from the Bay Area, who has family that work at Tesla in Fremont, where the racial discrimination suit is taking place, his appearance made me dissatisfied,” Douglas explained. But Musk’s awkward attempt at making the best out of an undeniably embarrassing situation apparently didn’t do much to win much of the rest of the crowd over. It was like the Chase Center turned into the Apollo.” Online, descriptions of the crowd reaction heavily veered toward a brutal evisceration by way of booing, but some fans who were present found it a little more difficult to get a clear read on the atmosphere of the arena. “As for the boos, let’s just say it outweighed the cheers.

The social media giant formed the council in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other issues of safety on the platform.

However, the volunteer group did not have decision-making authority on specific content issues. [takeover](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitter-offices-shut-down-employees-resign-1234632854/), the company has seen massive [layoffs](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-slash-50-percent-twitter-staff-employees-return-office-1234623653/) and [resignations](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitter-offices-shut-down-employees-resign-1234632854/). [$44 billion](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/welcome-to-the-hellscape-elon-musk-takes-over-twitter-fires-top-executives-1234619941/), [Elon Musk](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/elon-musk/) [announced](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-content-moderation-council-twitter-1234620584/) plans to create a “content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.” However, the newly minted Twitter CEO didn’t go into details on who would make up that council, how membership would be determined, or what types of aspects of “content” they would control. [rely more on automation](https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-exec-says-moving-fast-moderation-harmful-content-surges-2022-12-03/) and less on human review when making content moderation decisions. Less than an hour before members of the council were expecting to meet with Twitter representatives via Zoom, an email arrived in their inboxes informing the group that the company was “reevaluating how best to bring external insights” and that the council is “not the best structure to do this.” Multiple members provided images of the email, which was signed “Twitter,” to the AP. The council, which was comprised of about 100 independent civil rights leaders and advocates from around the world, helped to improve safety on the social platform.

Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter, left his home due to online harassment after criticism by Elon Musk.

Once tasked with trust and safety oversight, Roth and his family reportedly had to [flee their San Francisco home](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth/index.html) after Musk tweeted statements misrepresenting Roth's academic studies related to sexual activity and minors. ['No One Believed' This Black Founder Was the Owner of a Liquor Brand in 2012](/article/440084). He Launched to Great Acclaim — Then Lost It All. The text stated that the council wasn't ideal for bringing "external insights" into Twitter as a product or for "policy development work." By mid-November, Roth had resigned, later publishing an op-ed Sources told the Post that members expecting to meet instead received a message with "Thank You" in the subject line.

Elon Musk got into a Twitter spat with former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly on Sunday after the billionaire entrepreneur appeared to take another high-profile.

[reinstated](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-says-will-reinstate-former-president-donald-trumps-twitter-a-rcna54243) former President Donald Trump to the site, almost two years after the company banned him citing his role in the Jan. Last year, Chappelle was widely criticized by LGBTQ advocates after the release of a comedy special many considered to be transphobic. Fauci, Kelly said he believes the public health official — who was the head scientist leading the country through most of the Covid-19 pandemic and has become demonized by the GOP — did "what he thought was right to protect lives. The billionaire CEO also reinstated other previously suspended accounts, including those belonging to conservative firebrand Rep. The conspiracy theory suggested, with no evidence, that Pelosi's assailant was actually a “male nudist hippie prostitute.” "Sometimes people call me Mark, I feel obligated to correct them," he said, referring to his identical twin brother. The retired astronaut, who is also the twin brother of Sen. "Elon, please don’t mock and promote hate toward already marginalized and at-risk-of-violence members of the #LGBTQ+ community. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Later that year, he elaborated on his views, writing: “I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare.” Furthermore, Dr Fauci is a dedicated public servant whose sole motivation was saving lives," Kelly wrote. One of those replies came from Kelly, who has commanded the International Space Station on three expeditions.