Twitter engineer says ‘Commie’ employees ‘censors the fitting’

A senior Twitter engineer has been secretly recorded admitting that the social media big is “censoring the fitting” — and that he and his co-workers are “Commie as f–okay.”

“Twitter doesn’t consider in free speech,” Siru Murugesan stated in a sequence of hidden-camera clips launched late Monday by Challenge Veritas.

“Elon [Musk] believes in free speech,” added Murugesan, who claimed that lots of his colleagues “hate” what would possibly occur if the Tesla founder’s on-hold $44 billion takeover goes via.

“A few of my colleagues are like tremendous left, left, left, left, left,” stated the engineer, including that many have threatened to give up if Musk takes over and enforces his free-speech mannequin.

“Our jobs are at stake — he’s a capitalist, and we weren’t actually working as capitalists, extra like very socialist,” Murugesan stated. “We’re all like Commie as f–okay.”

“‘I believe it’s identical to the surroundings, such as you’re there and also you develop into like this Commie — they name it ‘Commifornia,’” he stated of staffers’ nickname for woke California.

Murugesan was additionally filmed admitting that the corporate’s left-wing slant instantly impacts content material on the location.

“I don’t know [if] the 2 events can actually co-exist on one platform,” he instructed.

Based on Murugesan, right-wingers usually tend to tolerate abusive messages whereas these on the left will merely refuse and give up the location.

“We’re truly censoring the fitting, and never the left,” the engineer was recorded saying, later including: “It’s true. There’s bias. It’s what it’s as we speak.”

Murugesan went on to say that whereas conservative voices had been returning to the location en masse in mild of Musk’s meant takeover, staffers have been “stress consuming” and “nervous for our jobs” after a chronic interval the place “primarily everybody will get to do no matter they need.”

“If you happen to’re not feeling it, you possibly can take a couple of days off,” he was recorded saying. “Individuals have taken months off.”

“I mainly went to work like 4 hours per week final quarter,” he added. “And it’s simply the way it works in our firm.”

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to messages from The Put up requesting touch upon Tuesday. Challenge Veritas additionally stated the location had but to reply to its requests for remark.