Welcome to another edition of "Musk Said What Now?". Yup, Elon Musk, the world's richest man and newly-made owner of , keeps trending over the internet because of his hot takes and equally hot to 'wokeism' which he now thinks may have the judgment of his social media company's in the run-up to the elections in Brazil. 🇧🇷 Twitter aversion clouded former management ICYMI: Brazil elected a new president, a well-known leftist leader called Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who was once by U.S. President Barack Obama as "the most popular politician on Earth." da Silva narrowly defeated strongman and ultra-orthodox incumbent in an election marked by from both sides, so of course, Musk had to jump in. praised Jair Bolsonaro rampant disinformation Noting that he had "seen a lot of concerning tweets about the recent Brazil election," the billionaire, without elaborating, said it was possible that former Twitter employees gave preference to left-wing candidates. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598990820665065472?embedable=true Musk also spent a portion of last week cozying up to Apple CEO Tim Cook after the iPhone maker planned to "withhold" Twitter from its app store. Of course Apple was going to do no such thing, and Musk following his meeting with Cook to patch things up. claiming claimed as much Meanwhile, Twitter corporate is with manually moderating content in favor of letting machines do the heavy lifting. Supposedly, that and an email to brands incentivizing ad spending on the platform was enough for at least Apple and to resume advertising on Twitter. Or maybe billionaires just like rubbing each other's backs. doing away Amazon Twitter ranked #63 in this week's Tech Company Rankings. Amazon was a step behind at #64, while Apple ranked #5. 🤏 'Work or GTFO,' It's Not Just Musk. It's Everyone. In an era of quiet quitting, a from indicates that it's not Elon Musk that's been to choose between working hardcore or leaving the company. It's practically every CEO at major tech companies. new report Business Insider just telling employees ? Check. ? Check. Amazon? Check. Facebook Google Given the these tech companies have in recent weeks, there's more pressure than ever for the remaining employees to work harder to justify remaining at the organizations. Never mind the fact that most of these tech companies went nuts during COVID-19 and hired aggressively in hopes that the growth in their business would continue. thousands laid off Now they just want to course correct and leave workers to fend for themselves in an economy that's nowhere near what it used to be. So much for work-life balance. Facebook continues to rank at the top of the Tech Company Rankings, while Google was trending at #4. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Takes on Big Tech Britain's often forgotten and sometimes misunderstood colony New Zealand has decided to follow in the footsteps of bigger brothers Australia and Canada in introducing laws that would require Google and to its media companies for the local news content that appears on their feeds. Meta pay While there's no doubt that just like in Australia and then Canada, the companies are going to campaign against such laws, it's equally possible that they might resign to their fates and accept that this is just where regulation is headed and that they need to stop profiteering off of other organizations' content. Meta ranked #24 this week. 📰 In Other News.. Good news for scalpers, bad news for consumers: iPhone shortages are expected to last throughout the Christmas season as the Chinese factory that produces the phones struggles to production. 📱 ramp up Kanye West's Twitter account was suspended yet again, this time for violating Twitter's rules against incitement to violence (and definitely not because he posted an of the billionaire). 🐴 at the behest of Elon Musk unflattering picture Neuralink, the health tech company Musk started to transplant chips inside the human brain, is planning to test said chips in actual humans starting next year. And to prove that it's totally viable and completely safe, Musk plans to . Lord knows if he can get any smarter than he already is. 💻 get one himself FTX's former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (or 'SBF') feigned ignorance of the irregularities happening at his company and said that he commit fraud. Also, . 💲 disgraced did not willingly this happened And that's a wrap! This has been the tech company brief, and you were reading Issue #27! See y’all next week. PEACE ☮️ — Sheharyar Khan, Editor, Business Tech @ HackerNoon

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