Court orders X to reveal investors, links to Putin's allies found
Court orders X to reveal investors, links to Putin's allies found
Platform X (formerly Twitter) was forced by an American court to disclose its investors as part of a lawsuit filed by f…
However, Joe Lonsdale, the founder of 8VC, did comment, considering it a response to an attack by left-wing media for "supporting Trump." Lonsdale was referring to an article published by Forbes magazine describing his fund's connections with the sons of Russian oligarchs.
Forbes is "left-wing media" now?
190Everything is left-wing media when you are a conservative troll. Just ask the Media Bias bot that will inevitably spew its propaganda at the bottom of this thread.
121This is an honest question because I see the media bias bot being consistently downvoted and don't understand why. Can you fill me in? Why is the media bias bot hated so much? It seems fairly reasonable in its assessments. For example:
- Daily Vox: Left with High factuality
- Huffington Post: Left with Mixed factuality
- MSNBC: Left with Mixed factuality
- NPR: Left-Center with High factuality
- Reuters: Least Biased with Very High factuality
- Forbes: Right-Center with Mostly Factual factuality
- Fox: Extreme-Right with Mixed factuality
- OAN: Extreme-Right with Low factuality
- Newsmax: Extreme-Right with Low factuality
- Infowars: Extreme-Right with Very Low factuality
- Conspiracy Level: Tin Foil Hat
- Pseudo-Sci Level: Strong
22That person is not a troll.
That is an oligarch.
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If you're so far on the right that even Goebbels would have found you extreme, everything is left wing.
58Yep true trumpers who have gone down the trump path hard think fox news is fake leftist media
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It’s a good way to deflect criticism
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Not all surprising, he's been pushing the russian narrative for a while now.
70Remember how Elon was very keen on limiting Starlink for Ukraine.
That makes a lot more sense now doesn't it.
51Remember even the Atkins guy fell, got injured, put on like 40 lbs overnight and died? Elon appears to be on that path. Ugly, failed, miserable, turd…
50We can only hope.
Well, I don't hope that happens to anyone. I do think it would generally make the world better, though.
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Uh oh. Looks like ya boi’s on the steroid.
33Glad this quy isn’t in charge for any large company that works for the government or something…
26Pika!
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19This list contains over a hundred entries
I love to dunk on Elon as much as anyone but surely out of a hundred+ investors there's always going to be a shady Russian or two. And everyone with money in Russia will be related to an oligarch on the sanctions list.
19It also depends on the size of the investment.
I’m sure they also wanted some foolish investors who don’t ask too many questions or try to steer the ship
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Lol. I can't believe that even in this case all the shits in the world decided to go into this together.
17putin does not care about financial return but if he gets it great. its about keeping it afloat and doing its job.
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Putin's allies probably invest in a lot of American companies
0The news source of this post could not be identified. Please check the source yourself. Media Bias Fact Check | bot support
-56Please fix your bot. I'm one of the few that actually appreciates it (especially in an election year, with disinformation everywhere), but why would anyone want spam that just says "don't know!" after every news story!? Either objectively and fairly rare sources, or say nothing.
23It doesn’t objectively, fairly rate sources though, it is conservative propaganda. Here is just one example: https://slrpnk.net/comment/10562776
17why would anyone want spam that just says “don’t know!”
I guess so you know it's working, just doesn't know the source, vs not working at all.
5I agree with you (although I appreciate it less).
There is SOME value on being aware of whether a source appears unknown or fringe, though. Whether that's justified here or not.
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Even though this site screams "wordpress blogspam" -- no editors listed, all the "authors" are listed as three letters without bios, and those authors cover the Everything beat (or close to it) -- they are owned by Wirtualna Polska. According to their Wikipedia page:
Wirtualna Polska (WP [vuˈpɛ]) is a group of companies operating in the media and e-commerce sectors.
The WP Group owns the Wirtualna Polska horizontal portal founded in 1995 and known for being the first internet portal in Poland. It is currently the second largest online news source and one of the most quoted news media in the country. According to the Gemius/PBI surveys around 21 million Poles use WP's internet products every month.
That's a lot of Poles! So the parent company at least is big in Poland, apparently. But, not listing the source, authors, or editors is sketch no matter how many Poles use your internet products.
This exact story was published nearly simultaneously on DailyWrap.ca. There it's credited to "ed. Tomasz Waleński." Hey, that's two of the three letters in "TWA," the "author" of this story! Though it appears he's the editor not the author. Tomasz Waleński is a real guy who works for WP. Here's an interview he did with Steve Horrell who is also a real guy. DailyWrap.ca looks identical to EssaNews and is also owned by WP. DailyWrap.uk is another lookalike. They seem to own a few low-quality click harvesters. They don't mention any of them on their brand page.
The earliest reporting of this story I could find is from WaPo. They mention 8VC but not a connection to Russia. This specific angle looks to be reported exclusively by a number of no-reputation sources possibly because it's a pretty tenuous connection. Musk probably would've been aware of Joe Lonsdale but not individual investors or employees at 8VC. The Forbes article mentioned (but not linked! Dicks.) is an interesting read though.
5Bad bot
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