A senior Twitter executive has been caught mocking Elon Musk for having Asperger’s, in a video where he also hit out at free speech.
Alex Martinez, a lead client partner, was secretly recorded condemning the Tesla billionaire, who could be his next boss, to an undercover reporter at a bar.
He proclaimed the entrepreneur was literally special needs, so he couldn’t even take what he was saying seriously during a lengthy conversation, adding that he was a loony tune.
Alex Martinez showed the Project Veritas operative an email from Twitter’s corporate security, warning of such sting operations. ‘Like they’re trying to go on dates with them, like this,’ Martinez explained.
‘And then record them and then go sell it to the New York Times and say: ‘This is what the Twitter employee just said.’ Like this is what is really happening. ‘Lucky I met you organically, or I would be questioning you.’
He also criticised Elon Musk’s attempts to bring free speech back to the podium as he claimed advertisers were freaking out over what it could mean for the social media goliath. The 50-year-old billionaire spotted the video online and quickly hit back at Martinez’s remarks, saying that the Twitter executive trashed free speech and mocked people with Asperger’s.
The footage came a day after another unsuspecting employee was duped into revealing what occurs at the tech company.
Senior engineer Siru Murugesan was recorded saying the firm’s culture was excessively far left where workers were commie and they detest Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover.
The two videos came amid a firestorm at Twitter as staff worry they would face the axe or be prevented from censoring certain content when the Tesla founder takes over.
Elon Musk has promised to return the platform to a safe space for users to post what they want as well as defeat the spam bots and authenticate all humans.
Meanwhile, he fueled speculation he could be aiming to negotiate paying less for the social media colossus as he told a Miami conference an agreement at a lower price wouldn’t be out of the question.
Martinez was recorded by an operative for Project Veritas.
He said that Elon Musk has Asperger’s and that he was special. That he was literally special needs and that he couldn’t even take what he was saying seriously, and in the video, Martinez criticises Elon Musk’s vision of free speech on the platform.
There have been loads of amazing people over the centuries that have been on the spectrum, it just means that Elon interprets the environment around him differently from other people, and to call him literally stupid is an affront to all people who are on the spectrum.
People on the spectrum don’t always have a lot of intonation or variation in how they speak, which makes it great for comedy, and which many people might make fun of.
However, some people on social media questioned his claim.
And yes, Elon might sometimes say or post bizarre things on social media, but that’s just how his brain works, but let’s face it this man has reinvented electric cars and is sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Do you think he’s going to be a chilled, normal guy? Whatever normal is!
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