PDS 11.17 Yikes! Guess Who is Getting Sued Now! Belle Delphine & OnlyFans, Nancy Pelosi Out, & Today’s News
The Philip DeFranco Show
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sup, you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. Hope you have in a fantastic Thursday afternoon or Friday morning or whatever it is. |
| 0:07.5 | There's a lot of news to talk about, so let's just jump into it. Get ready to work or get the fuck out. |
| 0:11.7 | That's not just what I yell at my children as they make your beautiful bastard hoodies for this next drop in my basement. |
| 0:16.0 | It's also what Elon Musk just told Twitter, writing in a midnight email to the company's employees that Twitter is shifting to an engineer-driven operation, which, quote, will need to be extremely hardcore going forward. |
| 0:25.5 | This will mean working long hours at high intensity. |
| 0:27.8 | Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade. |
| 0:30.8 | And adding that they have until Thursday, today, to make a decision on whether or not they want to stay. The source is also telling the Washington Post that members of Twitter's trust and safety team |
| 0:37.5 | who keep hate speech and misinformation off the platform, we're discussing a mass resignation as of yesterday. |
| 0:41.9 | Which, I mean, if that happens, could throw content moderation into chaos. |
| 0:45.3 | Recalling Twitter the Wild West would be a massive understatement. |
| 0:48.2 | You know, I think there is a genuine question of who's going to be at this company in a month? |
| 0:52.4 | He laid off half the 7,500 workers when he got there. |
| 0:55.1 | And all of this coming just after he tabled the $8 blue checkmark feature tweeting that it won't |
| 0:58.9 | relaunch until November 29th, which also regarding those $8 subscriptions, reportedly not getting |
| 1:03.6 | them anywhere near the money that they need. And all this happening at a time where many big advertisers |
| 1:07.9 | seem to be getting scared away. That including General Motors, Volkswagen, General Mills, Eli Lilly, Balenciaga. There was already concerned with the whole |
| 1:15.0 | parody account debacle made things so much worse. Also, there's been a review of Twitter data |
| 1:18.6 | trying to find out who is subscribing to Blue Verify and finding a decent chunk of the accounts |
| 1:22.6 | were promoting right-wing politics, cryptocurrency, speculation, and adult content such as pornography. So that's why many see |
| 1:28.0 | what Musk's doing here is him like desperately dumping buckets of water off the ship for a company |
| 1:32.2 | that some analysts say that he bought for double what it was actually worth. And all this is |
| 1:35.9 | Twitter is expected to owe roughly $1 billion in annual interest on top of recouping the investments |
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