Jackson Palmer — a co-founder of the world’s top memecoin Dogecoin DOGE/USD — harshly criticized the involvement of tech tycoon and Tesla Inc. TSLA CEO Elon Musk with social media giant Twitter Inc. TWTR.
What Happened: Palmer wrote in a Thursday tweet that “it takes some pretty impressive mental gymnastics to associate any type of ‘freedom’ with the richest man in the world initiating a hostile takeover and forcing one of the largest public social media platforms private” referring to Musk’s increasing involvement with Twitter.
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A statement this critical coming from a co-founder of Dogecoin may surprise many, but not those who know Palmer well enough. In July 2021 he wrote — in a thread that is still pinned on his Twitter profile — that he abandoned crypto and does not plan to come back since he believes that it “is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcity.”
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