[swalsh]

Elon receives a disproportionate amount of hate. Nobody is perfect, but people seem to dwell on his mistakes, and ignore his.... gigantic successes. I'm not sure I would have given anyone with $8 a blue checkmark. But i've also never ran a company that put a rocket in space with astronauts on it. Elon is human, and Twitter was a failing business (it was losing Millions of dollars a day, that's failing). Drastic transformation is necessary.

[encoderer]

He probably deserves a proportional amount of hate relative to the nexus of power and money he has accumulated.

Also, twitter was cash flow positive. It would feel like a money-making business to you if you owned it. It was only the stock-based compensation that caused it to lose money. But of course, that is just diluting shareholders and not actually losing money on operations.

[DaedPsyker]

I'd say the hate is proportional to his own PR. Musk is clearly someone who likes the limelight. Plenty of CEOs fly under the radar of the public, any negativity or mistakes also fly under the radar or get rolled into "Company X did this bad thing".