Twitter is going to shit.
Owner Elon Musk previewed his social network’s new media relations plan on Sunday, tweeting that journalists who contact the company’s press department will be greeted with a poop emoji.
His eschatological strategy was neither sarcastic nor hyperbolic; an email query from The Post on Sunday morning was immediately answered with the stomach-churning symbol, speechless.
It’s not the first time that Musk’s penchant for the ugly symbol has drawn backlash.
Last year, he was forced to explain that his use of the risqué emoji in response to then-CEO Parag Agrawal noted that he thought Agrawal’s claim that bots compromised less than five percent of the network was “bs.” .
The company had filed the tweet as part of a lawsuit alleging that Musk had “violated his obligations” under the merger agreement that was drafted when he agreed to take over.
Musk had bought Twitter on a promise to promote free speech, a response in part to the network’s controversial ban of a 2020 Post article detailing future firstborn Hunter Biden’s questionable foreign lobbying practices.
The South African native then moved to briefly ban the accounts of some scribes who had reported tracking the location of his private jet.
Late last year, Musk began posting numerous company communications illustrating the network’s controversial procedure for moderating and suppressing information, beginning with the Post’s exposure.
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