Twitter Court Docs Reveal Elon Musk's Ex-Wife Texted Him to 'Please Do Something to Fight Woke-ism'

While many of the text messages [revealed in court documents from Musk's phone] involved pleas to put money in the deal, Riley's were more focused on politics. "Please do something to fight woke-ism." she wrote, "I will do anything to help! xx."

She was especially concerned about the suspension of the Babylon Bee satire site's Twitter account, calling it "crazy" in a text to Musk. "Raiyah and I were talking about it today," she wrote. "It was a f–king joke. Why has everyone become so puritanical?"

Shortly after the Bee's suspension, Musk polled his followers about free speech.

Rogan: Are you going to liberate Twitter from the censorship happy mob?

Musk: "I will provide advice, which they may or may not choose to follow."

Rogan: "I REALLY hope you get Twitter. If you do, we should throw a hell of a party."

Musk: Why throw a party when you can have a Pajama Jammy Jam?

[...] while he was still on Twitter's board, Dorsey was messaging with Musk about acquiring Twitter and taking the company private. In response to a Musk tweet asking if a new platform was needed, Dorsey (or "jack jack," which is how Musk saved his contact info) texted in March: "Yes, a new platform is needed. It can’t be a company. This is why I left."

"I believe it must be an open source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn’t own the protocol, only advances it. A bit like what Signal has done. It can’t have an advertising model," Dorsey continued. "This isn’t complicated work, it just has to be done right so it’s resilient to what has happened to twitter."

Dorsey explained that he'd be completely gone from the company in May when he stepped down from the board. After that, he intended to "do this work."

Musk responded that he wanted to help, which is when Dorsey offered up this interesting nugget of information: Dorsey previously tried to get Musk on the board and when that failed, Dorsey wanted out of Twitter.

"I wanted to talk with you about it after I was all clear, because you care so much, get it’s (sic) importance, and could def help in immeasurable ways. Back when we had the activist come in, I tried my hardest to get you on our board, and our board said no. That’s about the time I decided I needed to work to leave, as hard as it was for me," Dorsey texted.

NEW: Elon Musk confirmed his plan to proceed with his $44 billion purchase of Twitter.

Read Musk's letter to Twitter https://t.co/V2aGjLEhFP pic.twitter.com/UB9daux50X

— Bloomberg (@business) October 4, 2022

Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2022