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☆ Opinion: Elon Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and insulting
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Opinion Jill Filipovic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Elon Musk is trying to make amends, or at least do damage control, after endorsing an antisemitic post on his platform X, formerly Twitter. The backlash to Musk’s comments on X was swift: Advertisers pulled their campaigns from X, and Musk came under international criticism. Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. A chat with Musk and a personal tour of Hamas’ devastation seems like it could have waited. Earlier this year, the ADL published a report documenting an increase in antisemitic content on X under Musk’s ownership.

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☆ Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the platform and its cultural impact have fundamentally changed
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Brian Fung | Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) account of how Musk has fundamentally changed Twitter since he made one of the most consequential acquisitions of the social media age. Many of Musk’s content and product decisions have also led to what civil society groups have reported as a troubling spread of hateful speech on the platform. He recommended that X users monitor the Israel-Hamas conflict by following an account known for spreading disinformation, before later deleting his post. And, in an attempt to prove that former Twitter executives deliberately discriminated against conservatives on the platform, Musk provided a handpicked group of journalists with selective access to company records. It is perhaps Musk’s all-consuming presence that has most undermined what users used to love about Twitter.

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☆ Elon Musk just told Tesla staff he wants to personally approve all new hires. Here's a look into his management style at Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX over the years.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk told Tesla staff in an email that he wants to personally sign off on all new hires. Here's a closer look at Musk's unconventional style of management and leadership at Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX. Musk told Tesla staff in the memo that he wants to personally approve all new hires. But in 2018, current and former Tesla employees told CNBC that Musk's micromanagement cost the company time and money. The same year, Tesla employees told Insider that Musk could be demanding and unpredictable.

☆ ‘Dilbert’ to return on Scott Adams’ subscription service
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Scott Adams, the comic creator who was dropped by hundreds of publications after his recent racist comments, tweeted that “Dilbert Reborn” will launch exclusively on his subscription site on March 13. Since his comments, Adams said on Twitter that he was only “advising people to avoid hate” and suggested that the cancellation of his cartoon indicates free speech in America is under assault. Dilbert is a comic strip that largely lampoons office cubicle culture. Hundreds of newspapers across the country and Andrews McMeel Universal, the company that syndicates “Dilbert,” dropped the comic after Adams’ offensive comments about Black Americans triggered an uproar. In a shocking rant on YouTube, Adams effectively encouraged segregation, calling Black Americans a “hate group” and suggesting that White people should “get the hell away” from them.

☆ Publisher Drops Plan to Release Book From ‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Scott Adams made racially insensitive remarks last week, leading many newspapers to drop his ‘Dilbert’ comic strip. A Penguin Random House imprint said it won’t publish “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams’s upcoming book “Reframe Your Brain,” previously expected to be published this coming September. Mr. Adams made racially insensitive remarks last week, leading many newspapers to drop his “Dilbert” comic strip after he referred to Black Americans as a “hate group” in a rant online.

☆ Elon Musk Calls U.S. Media Racist Over ‘Dilbert’ Comic Strip Backlash
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Gareth Vipers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

‘The media is racist,’ Twitter CEO Elon Musk said in a thread on the platform. Elon Musk has suggested the U.S. media is racist against white and Asian people as he appeared to defend the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, which was recently dropped by several newspapers. The Twitter Inc. chief executive made the remarks in a thread on the platform in response to an article posted by the San Francisco Chronicle that detailed the saga surrounding racist comments by Scott Adams .

New York CNN —Andrews McMeel Universal, the company that syndicates “Dilbert,” said it is cutting ties with the comic strip’s creator, Scott Adams, after his racist remarks about Black Americans led hundreds of newspapers across the country to drop the satirical cartoon. The USA Today Network, which operates hundreds of newspapers, said it had pulled the plug on the long-running comic strip. The Washington Post and The Plain Dealer also in Cleveland said they would no longer carry the comic. “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with White people – according to this poll, not according to me, according to th is poll – that’s a hate group,” Adams said Wednesday on his YouTube show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams.”“I don’t want to have anything to do with them,” Adams added. “And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people, just get the f**k away … because there is no fixing this.”

☆ Elon Musk tweets support for ‘Dilbert’ creator after racist tirade
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Elon Musk defended “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams after hundreds of newspapers stopped printing the comic strip because of Adams’ recent racist comments. Last week, Adams called Black Americans a “hate group” and suggested that White people should “get the hell away” from them. “Maybe they can try not being racist.”Musk later agreed with a tweet saying Adams’ comments “weren’t good” but had an “element of truth” to them. Hate speech on TwitterThe Twitter CEO’s comments come amid an influx of hate speech on his platform. The Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Anti-Defamation League both said in recent reports that the volume of hate speech on Twitter has grown dramatically under Musk’s stewardship.

☆ Elon Musk sides with Dilbert cartoonist after newspapers dropped him for making a racist rant
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk made the comments in defence of "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams. Adams was dropped by newspapers after making racist claims about Black Americans. Musk said the media is racist against white people, and made no criticism of Adams' claims. "For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they're racist against whites & Asians," Musk tweeted in response to the move. Musk's tweets came after the Dilbert creator suggested white Americans "get the hell away from Black people" in a YouTube video.

☆ 'Dilbert' cartoon dropped after racist rant by creator Scott Adams
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Sharon Bernstein | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Feb 25 (Reuters) - The cartoon "Dilbert" has been dropped from numerous U.S. newspapers in response to a racist rant by its creator on YouTube. "If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people ... that's a hate group," Adams said on his YouTube channel on Wednesday. "Cartoonist Scott Adams made racist comments in a YouTube livestream Feb. 22, offensive remarks that The Times rejects," the newspaper said on its website. The Times said it had removed four Dilbert cartoons from its pages in recent months because they violated the newspaper's standards. But on his YouTube channel, he confirmed his comic was being dropped - and said he had expected that to happen.

☆ Elon Musk accuses media of racism after newspapers drop 'Dilbert' cartoon
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Feb 26 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday accused the media of being racist against whites and Asians after U.S. newspapers dropped a white comic strip author who made derogatory comments about Black Americans. "Maybe they can try not being racist," Musk tweeted. loadingIn response to an account that said white victims of police violence get a fraction of media coverage compared to Black victims, Musk said the coverage is "Very disproportionate to promote a false narrative." Musk's latest tweets come after the Dilbert creator suggested white Americans "get the hell away from Black people". The move to drop the cartoon was "not a difficult decision", the Plain Dealer newspaper in Ohio told its readers on Friday.

☆ Elon Musk calls US media and schools 'racist against whites & Asians'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Tesla Chief Executive Office Elon Musk speaks at his company's factory in Fremont, California. In the video, Adams discussed a poll conducted by right-leaning Rasmussen Reports that said 26% of Black respondents disagreed with the statement "It's OK to be white." In his video, Adams called Black people who rejected that phrase as a "hate group." He then added, "For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they're racist against whites & Asians. Musk claimed that the media coverage is "Very disproportionate to promote a false narrative."

☆ Newspapers Drop ‘Dilbert’ After Cartoonist Calls Black Americans ‘Hate Group’
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip ‘Dilbert,’ said people had misunderstood the context of his remarks. Multiple newspapers around the U.S. dropped Scott Adams’s long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after the cartoonist called Black Americans a “hate group” in a racist rant he posted online. The USA Today Network, which includes hundreds of newspapers, Cleveland’s Plain Dealer, the San Antonio Express-News, the Washington Post and other publications all said they would stop publishing “Dilbert,” which has poked fun at corporate drudgery for decades.

☆ Hundreds of newspapers drop ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after racist tirade from creator Scott Adams
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The USA Today Network, which operates hundreds of newspapers, said it had pulled the plug on the long-running comic strip. The move came after Scott Adams, the cartoonist behind “Dilbert,” effectively encouraged segregation in a shocking rant on YouTube. The newspapers that have cut the comic strip have been clear with readers. “Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week … and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer,” wrote Chris Quinn, editor of the paper. “In light of Scott Adams’s recent statements promoting segregation, The Washington Post has ceased publication of the Dilbert comic strip,” it said.

☆ The Biggest Debates and Opinions in 2022 - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +30 min

Opinion The 22 Debates That Made Us Rage, Roll Our Eyes, and Change Our Minds in 2022Debating is what we do here at Times Opinion. To many, she was an icon: She ruled for 70 years, presided over the transition from empire to commonwealth and served as a living link to the generation that won World War II. (Though Ben Bernanke, a former Fed chairman himself, wrote in The Times that that wasn’t going to happen.) The United States and its European allies poured weapons and aid into Ukraine, but how was this going to end? As 2022 draws to a close, the fighting continues and peace talks look as distant as ever — which probably means that the debates will continue.

☆ Here's what Twitter employees can expect of Elon Musk's approach to management and leadership after the company accepted his $44 billion takeover offer
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-28 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Twitter has accepted Elon Musk's $44 billion offer to buy the company, it announced on Monday. The takeover will spell big changes for Twitter users, but also for employees of the company. What can Twitter employees expect to see when Musk takes charge? But in 2018, current and former Tesla employees told CNBC that Musk's micromanagement cost the company time and money. The same year, Tesla employees told Insider that Musk could be demanding and unpredictable.

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