Elon Musk — the tech billionaire recognized for speaking smack and trolling on Twitter — isn’t allowed to publish tweets about his deal to take over Twitter if he belittles the corporate or its representatives, in line with a brand new submitting on the transaction submitted by Twitter to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.

First noticed by Bloomberg, the SEC filing offered new data on the phrases of the social media community’s sale to Musk. The firm submitted the submitting the identical day Musk criticized prime Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde and Jim Baker, which prompted a barrage of non-public, and in some instances racist, assaults and requires them to be fired by Twitter customers. He posted a meme Wednesday afternoon mocking Gadde and praising right-wing podcaster Tim Pool. Musk additionally appeared to call out Twitter for being topped by former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social community in variety of App Store downloads.

“Truth Social is currently beating Twitter & TikTok on the Apple Store. Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech,” he wrote. “Should be called Trumpet instead!”

In distinction to Musk’s meme invective, Twitter wrote in its submitting, “Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Equity Investor shall be permitted to issue Tweets about the Merger or the transactions contemplated hereby so long as such Tweets do not disparage the Company or any of its Representatives.”

The similar day, Musk misplaced a case towards the SEC over a high quality and a consent decree. The order mandates that any of Musk’s tweets that would transfer inventory costs have to be pre-approved, lest he face extra multi-million greenback fines imposed by the SEC. The SpaceX CEO had tweeted “funding secured” after declaring that he deliberate to take Tesla personal at $420 (lol) per share when he didn’t, actually, have the funding to take action, inflicting the inventory value to leap.

Musk focused Gadde — a feminine government who was born in India and serves as Twitter’s authorized, public coverage, belief, and security lead — in response to a tweet from Breaking Points co-host Saagar Enjeti citing a current a Politico story about her: “Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover.” The outlet reported that Gadde had cried whereas talking about how Twitter might change beneath the path of its new proprietor.

Enjeti referred to as Gadde the social community’s “top censorship advocate” and mentioned she censored the New York Post’s story concerning the a laptop computer belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. Weeks earlier than the 2020 presidential election, Twitter blocked the distribution of the Post’s story by stopping customers from sharing hyperlinks to it by way of tweets or DMs, a transfer which infuriated conservatives that claimed that the corporate was making an attempt to assist Biden win the election. In addition, Twitter additionally locked the information outlet out of its account for some time, a transfer it later reversed. Much of the outlandish story of the laptop computer was later proven true.

“Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk tweeted in a reply to Enjeti.

Musk’s remark led to a barrage of tweets insulting Gadde and calling on Musk to fireside her.

Gadde wasn’t the one worker that obtained consideration from Musk on Tuesday, although. He additionally weighed in on one other tweet dropped at his consideration by Mike Cernovich — a infamous right-wing troll, so-called males’s rights activist, and conspiracy theorist recognized for promulgating concepts similar to #Pizzagate — relating to Twitter’s deputy normal counsel Jim Baker, which claimed Baker facilitated fraud when he labored on the FBI.

“Sounds pretty bad … “ Musk tweeted in response.

Twitter’s ex-CEO Dick Costolo seemed to respond obliquely to Musk, writing “Bullying is not leadership.”

Unsurprisingly, Musk’s remark additionally led customers to swarm on Baker and name for his elimination.

The incidents underscore the concerns which were expressed by Twitter staff in current weeks. Rumman Chowdhury, the corporate’s director of machine studying, transparency and accountability, said in mid-April that information about Musk’s involvement in Twitter and subsequent assaults by his followers had a “chilling effect” on staff.

“This is going to sound funny but Musks immediate chilling effect was something that bothered me significantly. Twitter has a beautiful culture of hilarious constructive criticism, and I saw that go silent because of his minions attacking employees,” Chowdhury mentioned. She added: “That is certainly not the only thing – my rule #1 is ‘do not feed the trolls’ – people like him thrive on attention, including negative attention. I wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction.”

Lara Cohen, Twitter’s head of worldwide partnerships, tweeted, “Color me shocked SHOCKED that people are coming for two of our prominent female executives on day 1 of this thing.”

Besides Chowdhury’s feedback, The Washington Post reported that in an inner city corridor with leaders on Monday, workers wished to know the way Twitter would shield the variety of its workers contemplating that Musk has been sued for discrimination prior to now. Employees additionally requested Twitter’s leaders how staff could be protected since Musk has a historical past of retaliating towards staff, the outlet acknowledged.

Twitter instructed Gizmodo that it had no touch upon Musk’s tweets on Wednesday morning.

The firm’s sale to Musk was introduced on Monday after weeks of hypothesis. In the times since, Tesla’s inventory has dipped, with shares falling 11% on Tuesday as traders reacted to information that Musk would take over Twitter. The downturn wiped practically $25 billion from Musk’s private wealth and $114 billion from Tesla’s market capitalization, as famous by Forbes.

Musk secured financing for the deal by way of $20 billion in loans from Morgan Stanley and one other $21 billion in fairness financing, which means he’ll in all probability should sell Tesla shares to personal the blue fowl app.

Despite all this monetary and digital turmoil, Musk remains to be the richest man on this planet and continues to tweet to his coronary heart’s content material. I’m wondering if anybody’s instructed him he can’t disparage folks. Sadly, even when somebody did, one thing tells me Musk in all probability wouldn’t care.