Top Lawyer for Twitter Reportedly Cried During Meeting With Employees About Musk Takeover
“She is seen internally as Twitter’s ‘moral authority’ and the executive tasked with handling sensitive issues like harassment and dangerous speech.”
Vijaya Gadde is a lawyer who has been a major power player at Twitter for years. She was instrumental in getting Trump thrown off the platform and may have played a role in banning the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
She apparently cried during a meeting with Twitter employees about Elon Musk taking ownership of the company.
Politico reports:
Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover
Monday was an emotional day at Twitter — even for its executives.
Shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the powerful social media platform, top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde called a virtual meeting with the policy and legal teams she oversees to discuss what the new ownership could mean for them.
Gadde cried during the meeting as she expressed concerns about how the company could change, according to three people familiar with the meeting. She acknowledged that there are significant uncertainties about what the company will look like under Musk’s leadership.
Twitter spokesperson Trenton Kennedy said Gadde became emotional when discussing her team’s impact and the pride she feels in them…
Gadde, who has worked at Twitter since 2011, is the key executive charged with overseeing Twitter’s trust and safety, legal and public policy functions. She is seen internally as Twitter’s “moral authority” and the executive tasked with handling sensitive issues like harassment and dangerous speech.
She is apparently deeply concerned with hate speech:
“I’m often inspired by the vigorous debates on controversial issues that occur on Twitter, but I’ve also been seriously troubled by the plight of some of our users who are completely overwhelmed by those who are trying to silence healthy discourse in the name of free expression,” Gadde wrote in a 2015 Washington Post op-ed. “At times, this takes the form of hateful speech in tweets directed at women or minority groups; at others, it takes the form of threats aimed to intimidate those who take a stand on issues.”
Ace of Spades offers this analysis:
This is how they end free speech: They claim that “free speech” can only really happen when they exclude the people who are arguing with women and minorities and especially trans people.
Disagreement with protected “marginalized” people is definitionally “hate speech:” if you’re not affirming them, it’s “hate.”
When you argue with these people, they feel chilled from expressing their opinions, and do not offer them.
So you have to censor men, especially white men, and straight people.
Then the “marginalized” people can speak freely.
Then you have “free speech.”
For… some people.
Meanwhile, the meltdown continues for many others.
Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts is reacting to Musk’s takeover by saying we need “algorithmic justice,” whatever that is.
Elon Musk and a handful of billionaires now have dangerous influence over the most powerful online platforms. They can't be trusted, and self-regulation has failed. We must pass laws to protect privacy and promote algorithmic justice for internet users, especially for kids.
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) April 26, 2022
Sunny Hostin of The View insists that Musk only cares about the free speech of straight white men.
The View's Sunny Hostin: "So when Elon Musk says, 'wow, this is about free speech,' seems to me that it’s about free speech of straight white men." pic.twitter.com/q6jmGVK1gX
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) April 26, 2022
Meathead is in a panic.
Now that Elon Musk is buying Twitter, the question for all of us is: Will he allow a Criminal who used this platform to lie and spread disinformation to try to overthrow the US Government to return and continue his Criminal activity? And if he does, how do we combat it?
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) April 25, 2022
David Hogg is sure there’s something sinister afoot here.
A man doesn’t bet half his life‘s work and fortune on freedom of speech. Musk sees something here that is worth far more than 40 billion. The question I have is what is it?
— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) April 26, 2022
Have you ever seen the left lose their minds over something like this before now?
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I am WOMAN! Hear me… cry.
I’m a woman, and when I cry it’s because I have a reason to. This is just embarrassing.
I haven’t been able to cry since 1995 when I lost my son. And that was difficult. I had to force myself to cry. It just didn’t come naturally. That’s when I started to wonder about the differences between sociopaths and psychopaths.
I had to wonder, what WTF was wrong with me? If there’s ever any time a man should be allowed to cry it’s when he’s losing his child.
Literally, I was pounding on myself. “Cry, m**therf****er. This is the last chance you’ll ever get to be a father”
I was torn apart on the inside. From the outside you wouldn’t think I cared.
They woke and are all a-Twitter. It’s because he’s African-American, right?
Musk is indeed African-American, just not the kind most people mean when they use that term.
I think I read what you are saying. You are saying not what they mean because he’s not a plantation progressive.
Ubuntu!
This show was a decade ahead of its time.
In 2009, the leftist dialog was over the top.
Now, Democrats defame people with exactly this language everyday.
Top lawyer for Twitter is crying because she will soon be a former lawyer for Twitter. What a twit!
Watching leftist heads explode is more fun than 4th of July fireworks.
If you think of Twitter as a real- life version of The Shawshank Redemption, I guess this news makes Vijaya Gadde fit into the role of Captain Myron Hadley.
She is probably crying about the fact that Musk can now prove she repeatedly perjured herself in front of the House and Senate and that she knowingly and intentionally interferred in the 2016 and 2020 elections on behalf of the Democrat party.
Nothing absolutely nothing but losing her job and going to FB will happen
You forget, Twitter is now a private company, not an arm of the CCCP/DOJ.
DING DING DING DING!
Agree this is like 4th of July with heads exploding.
On other note next time you are in need of a lawyer find one who has some backbone and won’t go to tears if they don’t get their way.
Odin at the Manhattan federal lockup tells me that Avenatti never even cried once.
I suspect that Avenatti’s mouth will get the living shit kicked out of him.
Babylon Bee already predicted this. Tears cause water damage at Twitter HQ. How do they keep predicting the stuff?
All that’s happened so far is an agreement for Musk to purchase has been reached. Just think what will happen when he actually owns it and starts running it.
Good point.. but it is fun thinking about it now.
Let’s see — We need to preserve free speech and democracy through censorship.
Is it 1984 yet?
Cry more, fascist. You’re not going to get to act like a nazi anymore.
She might want to buy a house in a neighborhood with no lamp posts.
Now off to see how Hitler reacted to Musk buying twatter. There has to be one by now.
” to discuss what the new ownership could mean for them.”
IOW what files & documents to delete & shred asap
Meathead is in a panic.
ISWYDT!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
TY Mike!
“Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover”
Nothing reassures me more than my bosses in breaking down in tears.
Oooh! Oooh!
The perfect theme song for this scene!
This version has on-screen lyrics so you won’t miss any of the pathos.