Project Veritas managed to get Twitter’s Sr. Engineer Siru Murugesan to confirm everything we thought we knew about the social media platform. In the footage, Murugesan said many of his co-workers have been ‘stress-eating’ and saying that they’ll quit if Elon Musk takes over.
The Senior engineer explains that Twitter does not believe in free speech and Musk is an advocate for the First Amendment.
“Our jobs are at stake; he’s a capitalist and we weren’t really operating as capitalists, more like very socialist,” Murugesan says before adding, “we’re all like commie as f**k.”
Murugesan also pointed to free speech being one of the core issues employees at Twitter have with its new likely owner, Elon Musk.
When asked about the difference between Twitter’s definition of free speech and Musk’s, the Sr. Engineer left no room for interpretation. “Twitter does not believe in free speech,” said Murugesan answering the undercover journalist.
Back in March, Musk said he was a “free speech absolutist” and clarified his comments further adding, “By free speech, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.”
Murugesan also explained how Twitter employees did all they could to “revolt against” Musk’s takeover of the company.
“We did all we could to like revolt against it. A lot of employees were revolting against it, but at the end of the day, the board of directors have the say.”
He added that he thought the board “… acted on their best interests ‘cause they didn’t want to get sued…. they’re always looking out for themselves at the end of the day.”
The deal has been on hold as everyone on the left seeks to prevent the sale but finally, there has been some movement. Twitter’s board said Tuesday that it plans to “close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement” between Elon Musk and Twitter, The New York Times reports.
“The board and Mr. Musk agreed to a transaction at $54.20 per share,” Twitter’s board said in a statement to The New York Times. “We believe this agreement is in the best interest of all shareholders. We intend to close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement.”
This followed an earlier statement from Twitter that said it was “committed to completing the transaction on the agreed price and terms as promptly as practicable.”
Twitter’s board urged shareholders in a regulatory filing Tuesday to vote in favor of the deal.