Elon's pro hate-speech platform?
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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It’s fascinating to me to see the subtle way that Elon is using Twitter to lie for his gain. He makes claims about free speech and spins it so that conservatives feel emboldened while being a giant hypocrite and banning people, censoring tweets he doesn’t like, and spreading misinformation to prop himself up and put his competition down.
Then he moves to the reinforcement stages of these plans by doing shit like this. It’s likely that nothing will come out of this lawsuit but that doesn’t matter. For anyone that he’s manipulating, the headline and tweet are the only things that matter. They drive the narrative forward. They have little info that can be debunked or even evaluated in any meaningful way and, by the time anyone figures out it’s a bunch of empty nonsense, he’ll move on to the next headline and tweet.
It’s kinda genius. Evil, manipulative, dangerous genius and is slowly adding to the decline of the public’s ability to assess institutions and ideas.
It's not genius, it's just the same bullshit Trump has been doing this whole time...
It's really simple manipulation that any idiot can learn by simply not caring who they hurt on the way to perfecting the formula.
It's why narcissists are often so successful.
It is genius because of how simple it is. Trump may not get away with it but that’s because he was President. Elon can’t be President so the scrutiny on him will be much lower.
Remember before all the Obama birth certificate nonsense, there were some republicans who wanted to relax the "natural born" citizenship requirements so Schwarzenegger could run for president? I won't be surprised if they start floating that one again.