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I am going to give Elon the benefit of the doubt here and “wait and see.” We don’t know everything he knows, and this might be a smart move to counter WEF efforts to sabotage Twitter. Keep your enemies close kind of thing. Musk is not WEF, and I’ll guess not everyone in the WEF orbit is rabidly loyal to that organization, and besides, she went to Penn State.

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Oh, no... I didn't mean YOU Mark, I meant a general "you" - so I wasn't intending to be accusatory of anything you have said in the least. I agree about overreacting to the "young leaders" thing - as we have seen some people are designated as such who have not been active with the WEF in the least; on the other hand this woman was/is a Chairperson, which indicates not only active involvement but leadership. I'm not saying at this point that Musk will turn Twitter into a WEF tool but I fail to understand why he would open himself up to even the suspicion of that being the case. As you say time will tell.

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May 13, 2023·edited May 13, 2023

I'm very skeptical. There are a lot of people in the world with marketing backgrounds and great credentials who are not active leaders in WEF initiatives. Are you trying to tell me Musk did not know this would arouse a great deal of suspicion of where his head is at and what his motives for Twitter are?

For many, the WEF has such an association with totalitarianism in general and neo-feudalism in particular that Musk's hiring of her seems absolutely contradictory to his history of statements regarding free speech. Will we ever get an explanation for this? I doubt it.

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Swag - Musk is looking to take market share from YouTube and podcasts. Her hiring is aimed at Google.

On WEF ties, we need to wait and see. I’m not sure Musk can hire anyone of this caliber in the advertising industry without woke credentials. I’m not sure such a person exists.

May be he lured / bribed her with huge stock options / the opportunity to be filthy rich if she performs and grows Twitter, red pills a bit on free speech, by taking marketshare from Google.

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If she stays in I will be out. Of course she will influence musk. WEF is big and infiltrated in most governments and businesses.

No thank you.

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Maybe the white pill argument is that it is a victory to pull people from the WEF and "turn" them. I can accept that she might be an opportunist. Same with Musk, quite likely. I once posited to Luongo on his Patreon whether he thought Musk had been "recruited" to buy twitter and Luongo said he thought so. It'll be interesting to see Luongo's take after a couple of days to mull it over. I am wary of everyone, it seems, but hopeful that the "Good Guys," (whoever they may be,) win.

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Follow this link for a video of Musk and Yaccarino conversing:

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1657033675689656330

They discuss his plans, then she's saying she wants to influence him, and he seems to draw a line, citing free speech.

Kim Dotcom

@KimDotcom

The WEF associated future CEO of Twitter promotes influence peddling for advertisers & content moderation that makes advertisers comfortable. We know what happens when you give corporations and their political puppets power over content. I don’t like this.

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I like Robert Barnes' contrarian hypothesis that yaccario may have been playing along to get along in the corporate world. Consider, musk has access to her dm's, and yaccario did serve a panel appt under trump at a time when that was the third rail of the establishment . I know MW is no fan of Barnes (I am!), But this take is in line with not setting a torch to your $4b investment and every principled stand on free speech you've made over that year or so. But who knows at this point. Just trying to make sense of a move that SEEMS very lame for a smart guy like musk.

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May 12, 2023·edited May 12, 2023

It was nice while it lasted. This is down payment for the 40B @ElonMusk has to pay back.

#TwitterFiles offered hope for @Twitter, which is now lost. Hopefully Tucker reconsiders.

We will not be deterred. The struggle continues with Locals, Rumble, Substack, Valuetainment, Rogan, Taibbi, etc.

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CulturalHusbandry

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Guess who was the Chair of the Ad Council that drove the partnership between global corporations and the US Government to push vaccines during COVID… 👇💉

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It seems that any institution/corporation/entity of any significant size or influence becomes captured by the New Marxists. I fear that Tucker is making a mistake relying upon Twitter. Twitter has shown itself to be vulnerable to control and manipulation by nefarious actors in the recent past. It will happen again in the future in my opinion.

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What did Bill Hicks say about those who worked in advertising...?

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