{"id":1061287,"date":"2022-04-17T15:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/17\/amul-takes-a-dig-at-elon-musk-for-his-attempts-to-take-over-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-04-17T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T15:46:28","slug":"amul-takes-a-dig-at-elon-musk-for-his-attempts-to-take-over-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/17\/amul-takes-a-dig-at-elon-musk-for-his-attempts-to-take-over-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Amul takes a dig at Elon Musk for his attempts to take over Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Trust Amul to comment on trending topics around the world. Be it <strong>celebrity weddings<\/strong> or <strong>international conflicts<\/strong>, the dairy brand has always come up with concise and witty topical advertisements.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In its latest topical advertisement, Amul has commented on billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s attempts\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">at\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">owning Twitter. In recent weeks Musk, who is\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">CEO of Tesla and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">the f<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">ounder of SpaceX, has expressed his desire to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">buy\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">the social media platform.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Bloomberg reported that earlier this week Musk offered to buy Twitter\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">for $<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">43 billion. So far it has appeared that <strong>Twitter is resisting Musk\u2019s attempts to take over the company<\/strong>, though the billionaire owns a 9.2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">per cent p<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">assive stake in the company, which makes him the largest individual shareholder of the social media giant.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In the latest Amul advertisement, one can see Musk holding a cage and encouraging Twitter\u2019s bird mascot to get inside the cage. The topical advertisement is titled \u201cElon flexes his Muskles?\u201d and \u201cAmul takes over bread daily\u201d. The advertisement alludes <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">that\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Musk is trying to control Twitter by owning it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0;width: calc(100% - 2px)\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CcaVPedINo9\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is so wrong . The picture should be the other way around . He is freeing the platform<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Positive Indian (@OurHistoryIsUs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OurHistoryIsUs\/status\/1515315235644604417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow, noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What?? Elon musk wants freedom of speech. Twitter is currently owned by deep state who influence with their narrative<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Naina (@Abn7760) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Abn7760\/status\/1515608228939563009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow, noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I read it as \u092e\u0938\u094d\u0915\u0932\u094d\u0938 and now I am reminded of her \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude2d: https:\/\/t.co\/FjO0XZVXzT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dFtB7tsPz2\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow, noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dFtB7tsPz2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 trashcan (@dumpingduckling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dumpingduckling\/status\/1515396761786888196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow, noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With all buttery respect I would suggest you to revaluate this meme<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 chadpikachu\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@spamkaws) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spamkaws\/status\/1515627069085917188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow, noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On the contrary, the bird will move from one cage to another<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FlexLoci (@FakeLoci) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FakeLoci\/status\/1515621878630854661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow, noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In the past, Musk has often hinted that he is <strong>interested in strengthening the platform\u2019s free speech mandate<\/strong>. It appears that his posturing has\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">found\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">many takers,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">going by the number of people who\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">commented on\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Amul advertisement arguing that Musk\u2019s influence on Twitter will be good for free speech principles.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Echoing this sentiment, a Twitter user wrote, \u201cThis is so wrong. The picture should be the other way around. He is freeing the platform.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '444470064056909');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust Amul to comment on trending topics around the world. Be it celebrity weddings or international conflicts, the dairy brand has always come up with concise and witty topical advertisements. In its latest topical advertisement, Amul has commented on billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s attempts\u00a0at\u00a0owning Twitter. In recent weeks Musk, who is\u00a0the\u00a0CEO of Tesla and\u00a0the founder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7814],"tags":[7813,1053,4579,6004,6007,904,136],"class_list":["post-1061287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-social-media","tag-amul","tag-attempts","tag-dig","tag-elon","tag-musk","tag-takes","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}