A new undercover video from Project Veritas shows a senior engineer at Twitter discussing the company’s “socialist” and “communist” culture. Not only did he say that Twitter employees are “commie as f**k” as if that’s a good thing, he also said that “Twitter does not believe in free speech.”
Project Veritas is well known for publishing undercover videos exposing the corruption and criminality of leftist organizations. And while critics have accused Project Veritas of “selective editing” to make it appear that people said things they did not say — or at least taking their comments out of context — those accusations do not stand up under scrutiny. For example, what context could possibly ameliorate a CNN anchor’s statement that CNN knew the Trump / Russia collusion story was false? Or ACORN employees agreeing to help pimps set up brothels with underage prostitutes? Or Twitter Senior Engineer Siru Murugesan boldly stating that Twitter is a “socialist,” “commie as f**k” company that fears a takeover by Elon Musk because “Twitter does not believe in free speech” and Musk does?
As Project Veritas reports:
In the video, Twitter Sr. Engineer, Siru Murugesan, says many of his colleagues have voiced “this would be my last day if it happens,” referring to Musk’s high publicized intended purchase of Twitter. He also says employees at Twitter are “stress-eating” and “worried for our jobs.”
More significant than those soundbites are the reasons he says employees at Twitter feel this way.
“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.”
In the video, Murugesan — who does not know he is being recorded — says that Twitter employees are so worried for their jobs because “Twitter does not believe in free speech” but “Elon believes in free speech.”
It is not free speech in general that causes Twitter’s “commie as f**k” employees such psychological pain that they find themselves overeating; it is free speech for conservatives in specific that is the problem for them. Murugesan said he does not “know if two parties can truly coexist on one platform.” In standard communist thinking, Murugesan wants Twitter for liberals and only for liberals. Of course, that would mean that something like Trump’s Truth Social would be for conservatives — but only until liberals to take it over and claim it as their own. Communism is as communism does.
Murugesan said he and other Twitter employees did “all we could” to “revolt” against Musk’s takeover of Twitter. “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.”
The theme of a Twitter-employee “revolt” stemming from their hatred of free speech fits nicely with a previous report of Twitter employees being distraught over Musk’s acquisition of the social-media platform. As this writer reported late last month, leaked internal messages showed that a good number of Twitter employees were beside themselves over the proposition that Musk is taking over the company and will allow free speech. From that previous article:
According to internal messages leaked this week, a good number of Twitter employees are losing their minds over Elon Musk’s purchase of the social-media platform. The messages — obtained by the New York Post — show that woke Twitter employees are afraid and angry. Some showed their disgust over the very idea of free speech.
And — sounding exactly like Murugesan’s description of Twitter employees as being “commie as f**k” and saying that they would quit, rather than work in a Twitter that allows free speech, that previous article included a quote from a senior staff video engineer who made it clear that there is not a place in Musk’s Twitter for his talent, stating, “Not the place to say it perhaps, but I will not work for this company after the takeover.”
The employees who participated in that meeting to voice their objection to Musk’s takeover also expressed that their main issue was Musk’s love of (and their hatred for) free speech:
But perhaps a senior staff software engineer — who referred to Musk as an “a**hole” (not sure the asterisks tone that down any at all, considering the limited geography of that phrase) — best expressed the sentiments of the woke crowd of Twitter employees when he said, “We’re all going through the five stages of grief in cycles and everyone’s nerves are frazzled,” adding, “We’re all spinning our wheels, and coming up with worst case scenarios (Trump returns! No more moderation!). The fact is that [Musk] has not talked about what he’s planning on doing in any detail outside of broad sweeping statements that could be easily seen as hyperbolic showboating.”
His fear that the “worst case scenarios” include President Trump being allowed to return to the platform and the inability to silence conservatives is a great indicator that he never needed to be a software engineer for a major communications platform — senior or otherwise — in the first place. And just in case anyone is laboring under the misapprehension that his reference to “moderation” meant anything other than the silencing of conservative voices, the long habit of Twitter allowing almost any level of abuse and threats from liberals while calling simple statements of fact — such as “men are not women” — as “threats” and “violence” should suffice to quell that confusion.
And while Murugesan’s assertion that Twitter employees did “all we could to like revolt against [Musk’s takeover]” is vague and lacks details, it is noteworthy that even some senior management at Twitter seemed to realize that having a bunch of hurt, angry, woke-warriors with access to the keys to the kingdom was a bad idea. In response, Twitter locked its source code to prevent those employees from making unauthorized changes that could scuttle the company. As even Bloomberg — which cannot be accused of a conservative bias — reported at the time:
Twitter Inc. locked down changes to its social networking platform through Friday after accepting a $44 billion bid from billionaire Elon Musk, making it harder for employees to make unauthorized changes, according to people familiar with the matter.
For now, Twitter won’t allow product updates unless they’re business-critical, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the situation is private. The company accepted a $54.20-a-share bid from Musk after a whirlwind courtship that began with the Tesla Inc. magnate disclosing a 9% stake in Twitter earlier this month.
Product changes will require approval from a vice president, the people said. Twitter imposed the temporary ban to keep employees who may be miffed about the deal from “going rogue,” according to one of the people.
So, while details of the attempted “revolt” are not known, it appears that Twitter’s upper management was aware of it and took precautions to prevent any damage beyond running out of tissue (from employees drying their eyes and blowing their noses) and empty vending machines and cupboards (from all that “stress eating”).
