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They really do not like the notion of the peasants being able to post their Wrongthink thoughts without control from their betters

Washington gets increasingly freaked out by Twitter

Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter has left professional Washington amused, worried — and utterly at a loss on how to handle what was until last week the Beltway’s favorite fast-twitch communication platform.

“The Elon takeover is all people can talk about,” said Megan Schmidt, a media strategist at the communications firm Mission North with numerous Washington cybersecurity clients.

In two short weeks since taking over the company, Musk has tweeted a far-right conspiracy theory, fired half the staff, triggered the ire of the Federal Trade Commission and reportedly lost the top officials keeping the platform’s content safe and reliable.

Politico means the officials who determine what is and isn’t Wrongthink. Who suspend and block lots and lots of people who have not done anything wrong by written things against Official Leftist Dogma. I’ve seen them allow leftists who doxxed and/or threatened people to remain on the site.

Twitter’s underlying software is reportedly showing signs of showing signs of cracking for some users, without enough engineers to maintain it. Cybersecurity and privacy experts are worried that it’s becoming a “Wild West” when it comes to data breaches and vulnerability to hacking.

So far there hasn’t been a mass exodus — users in politics and media are watching and waiting, and Twitter has remained largely reliable as a real-time news platform. But Schmidt says she and her colleagues are trying to determine whether it’s safe for their clients to keep advertising, or even stay on Twitter at all.

Yes, it’s safe. All they’re doing is tweeting. They aren’t taking payments, they aren’t storing clients information. This is mostly just whining from Progressives (nice Fascism) that they can no longer control the narrative.

Several Washington communications veterans contacted by POLITICO said versions of the same thing: Twitter now needs to be treated with great caution by anyone concerned with their public image.

Image? For what? How so? Have they seen some of the content pre-Musk? There’s literally p0rnagraphy on there from some p0rn stars. And more.

“Whether it’s a politician, or candidate, or a business, they need a platform that has credibility and that is stable and aligns with their values,” said Sean Higgins, a veteran of the D.C. political communications scene and associate vice president at Precision Strategies. “So far, Twitter hasn’t demonstrated an ability to provide any of those things under Elon Musk’s leadership — and that’s a problem.”

And there it is: they’re upset that Twitter won’t be using it’s heavy hand to promote Leftists and reduce Republicans. I’ve heard that stealth-banning has significantly decreased. Leftists love their censorship and are losing their minds that they won’t have it anymore. They really had an unofficial version of net neutrality running on pre-Musk Twitter, just like they have with Google and Facebook.