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'WE'RE COMMIE AS F***, AND WE HATE ELON MUSK': Engineer Siru Murugesan BLOWS LID OFF Twitter

The engineer also claimed the work environment was rather lax, confessing that he went to the office only 4 hours a week in the last quarter.

A senior engineer at Twitter made bombshell claims during a sting operation, including the allegation that the social media giant has a strong left-wing bias and regularly censors conservatives on the platform.

Siru Murugesan was caught on camera saying the company's culture is mostly far left, that its employees as "commie as f***", and that they "hate" Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover bid. The engineer admitted in a frank conversation filmed over multiple encounters that the firm "does not believe in free speech" and that his political views veered towards the left soon after he joined the company. The shocking remarks came as Twitter staff fear that Musk's takeover could change the way they handle content and endanger their jobs altogether. The Tesla founder has vowed to guarantee "free speech" on the platform as well as "defeat the spam bots" and "authenticate all humans."

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Who is Siru Murugesan?

Siru Murugesan was identified by undercover journalists Project Veritas as a senior engineer at Twitter. He confessed in a series of tapes that the micro-blogging platform adopts a far-left outlook and often clamps down on right-wing accounts or narratives. The engineer made the revelations while speaking to a PV journalist on April 28 this year, before the video was shared on Twitter by journalist Tim Pool on Tuesday, May 17.

“Twitter does not believe in free speech. Elon believes in free speech. He’s a capitalist and we weren’t really operating as capitalists, more like very socialist. Like we’re all commie as fu*k,” Murugesan was heard as saying. “Ideologically, it does not make sense, because we’re actually censoring the Right and not the Left. So, everyone on the right-wing will be like, ‘bro, it’s okay to stay, just gotta tolerate it. The left will be like, no, I’m not gonna tolerate it. I need it censored or else I’m not gonna be on the platform."

“So, it does that on the right. It’s true. There is bias. I don’t know how two parties can truly co-exist on one platform,” the engineer continued, adding that his "leftist colleagues" were strongly opposed to the idea of a Twitter takeover by ‘capitalist’ Elon Musk. “Oh my God. I am at least like okay with it. But some of my colleagues are like super left, left, left, left, left. They are like this would be my last day if this happens,” he insisted.

Murugesan revealed that a "lot has changed" in the company's culture since the Twitter deal was announced. “We did all we could, to like revolt against it. A lot of employees revolted against it. But at the end of the day, [the] board of directors has the say, and then they acted in their best interests cause they didn’t wanna get sued,” he said.

The engineer also claimed the work environment was rather lax, confessing that he went to the office only 4 hours a week in the last quarter. “Essentially like everyone gets to do whatever they want, no one really cares about like (operating expenses)... like capitalists, they care about numbers or care about how to make the business more efficient,” he explained. “But in Twitter, it is like mental health is everything, like if you are not feeling it, you can take a few days off. People have taken months off, they will come back. But you always like, like do your best at any time. And that is the culture and you know we will run the business as much as possible."

Murugesan also noted how his own political views were impacted while working for Twitter. “Like I started working at Twitter and became Left. I think it is just like the environment like you are there and you become like this commie,” the engineer added.