June 7, 2023

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June 5, 2023

RFK Jr heaps praise on Elon Musk saying he is 'rescuing American Democracy' during Twitter event

Source: The Independent

Presidential candidate and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr heaped praise on Twitter owner Elon Musk for defending free speech, during a Twitter spaces event with the executive on Monday afternoon.

Mr Kennedy, who has long promoted the discredited theory that vaccines play a role in causing autism, participated in a Twitter Spaces event on Monday and praised Mr Muk for his stewardship of the social media giant for supposedly stopping censorship of voices that dissent from orthodoxy.

“I just want to tell you how much I admire you for that and how grateful I am on behalf of my country,” he said. “You would come here from another country and be a key instrument for rescuing American democracy and freedom of speech.”

The forum is the second such event that Mr Musk has hosted with a presidential hopeful. Last month, Mr Musk hosted a Twitter Sspaces forum with Florida Gov Ron DeSantis as he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in 2024.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-elon-musk-twitter-space-b2351893.html

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Republican Elon Musk is not promoting RFK because they have similar views.He's promoting him because he wants to take votes away from Biden to help his republican party.

June 5, 2023

Twitter's U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue

Source: New York Times

Elon Musk recently said Twitter’s advertising business was on the upswing. “Almost all advertisers have come back,” he asserted, adding that the social media company could soon become profitable.

But Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier, according to an internal presentation obtained by The New York Times. The company has regularly fallen short of its U.S. weekly sales projections, sometimes by as much as 30 percent, the document said.

That performance is unlikely to improve anytime soon, according to the documents and seven current and former Twitter employees.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sales-musk.html