He’ll never actually do it. He simply wants to encourage more people to say outrageous things so engagement levels increase as everyone does dumb shit.
Good luck to anyone who falls for this.
When I look at the current state of the internet, I pine for the simpler days of the nineties when a/s/l and stormfront.org look downright warm and fuzzy in comparison. That was just weird individuals being weird. Now it's institutionalized across the entire Internet.
I suspect he may have read this article and taken it to heart:
"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate
He's eating his children! I knew this day would come I just didn't expect it to be so obvious! He needs engagement so he is going to incite people to say crazy things and then they are going to get in trouble and never be able to get a hold of him. He's just literally fucking with the US government right now. I don't know why but I think Musk is flexing his political strength in a way that he doesn't realize will destroy him.
lol sure he will. He won’t even pay rent.
Remember that time he offered to solve world hunger but then didn't because "nah" basically?
No, but we can trust him this time. All those other lies were completely unrelated. /s
It's possible. He literally burnt an extra 150 million dollars by bumping his offer for twitter to 54.20 just to make it a stupid 420 meme. It's not like he doesn't have the money to pay those bills.
He's not offering it to former employees, but they should absolutely go for it very very publicly. Musk is fishing for money from Trump and Kanye, it's probably some kind of laundering scheme.
He will have to sue HIMSELF! diabolical!
Suing himself is the only way he’ll win a Twitter-related lawsuit.
Musk is fishing for money from Trump
Trump is very obviously not coming back to Twitter, doesn't have an employer, and he's offering to pay for the service, not charge for it, so I'm not sure how that theory pans out.
The kid can't even pay his own rent, how's he going to afford legal fees?
They are actually responsible for paying arbitration for all the ex-employees suing the company after Twitter argued in court that they must go through arbitration. Last I heard was that they were having trouble paying these legal costs as well.
Didn't he fire one of the twitter engineers because he corrected him on a Twitter thread?
Yeah but he called a free speech absolutist timeout.
A Musk (or Trump) Never pays his debts.
Alexa, play "The Rains of ~~Cast~~Muskamere"
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will pay the legal bills and sue on the behalf of people who have been treated “unfairly” by employers because of posting or liking something on the site formerly known as Twitter.
“If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill,” Musk said in a post on X late on Saturday, adding that there will be no limits to funding the bills.
“And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too,” Musk said later in response to a post about nothing changing behavior in the US faster than a threat of legal action.
The figures came as the company is going through organizational changes and is looking to boost falling advertising revenue.
After 17 years with an iconic blue bird logo that came to symbolize the broadcasting of ideas to the world, Musk renamed Twitter as X and unveiled a new logo in July, marking a focus on building an “everything app”.
Earlier in July, the billionaire whose other companies include SpaceX and Tesla had said that the social media platform’s cashflow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load.
I'm a bot and I'm open source!
good bot!
Is it the same guy who barely can afford to pay the servers and owes wherever he looks?
If any right-wing nutjob is reading this: You should count on him actually paying for you. Go wild! But make sure to use your public profile so people don't think you're a bot!
He doesn't even pay his own bills. What makes people believe he'll actually pay theirs? He may pay one person's bill at first to get a flurry of news attention, but he'll definitely leave everyone else out to rot.
he won’t even pay his rent or his own legal bills… he stiffs his own employees on severance packages. he’s lying if he promises anything.
I think he is sorely underestimating how many people are going to contact him about this offer. lol
He’s not going to pay them shit. He didn’t pay his cloud bills or office rent.
When are these landlords and services going to start shutting him down? My popcorn is getting stale over here.
When you have money you can behave like you don't and get away with it for a long time.
Also how many lawyers.
Two fantasies - one, that anybody's been persecuted for posting on what was the most popular communication tool in the world, and two, that a narcissist ignoring his own bills will ever cover yours.
People don't get fired for where they post.
People get fired for what they post.
Twitter is still underwater from losing half their advertiser revenue plus the billions in debt they still owe. He's not going to pay out unless he can find one particular case that will bring lots of attention. Elmo is an attention whore that everyone needs to ignore.
If he goes out of the news cycle for one day, he does something stupid. Is anyone besides right wing assholes still on his site?
LOL
Imagine Elon Musk actually fucking PAYING HIS DEBTS
YEAH PAL PULL THE OTHER ONE
Do you want to pay the legal bills for a bunch of closet Nazis? Because that's how you wind up paying the legal bills for a bunch of closet Nazis.
And Musk would have a problem supporting Nazis how...?
Can't Musk posts just go to EnoughMuskSpam?
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There, does that sound any more believable?
No. He doesn't pay his own bills!
Will he be paying his own bills ? Think quite a few are overdrawn
He may offer to pay the legal bills, but he won't do it.
Okay so I have an LLC, can I hire my girlfriend and then fire her for something she posted on Twitter and then have musk come after me? That would be hilarious.
Please do this, for science!
Oh musk. Stf
This modafucka can’t even pay his own company’s bills on time.
Musk cannot even pay for the office space that he is leasing. What makes anyone that he will pay for your legal bills? What shit crock.
Tell us you want your social media company to be a popular version of truth social without telling us you want your social media company to...
I could see this being a fishing expedition looking for a “case” to rally folks behind and to muddy the waters.
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