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Friday, October 25, 2024 3:47:09 PM
A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis
Nick Robins-Early
A controversial tweet may make it to the news, but reading every post from the world’s richest man shows how frenzied and extreme he really is
Sat 14 Sep 2024 17.30 AEST
[... long article ...]
One particular fixation of Musk’s is promoting misleading claims and conspiracies about election fraud, a common conservative talking point in the Trump era. At 9.26am, Musk makes a demand for paper ballots instead of electronic voting machines, echoing a popular rightwing narrative that such machines are used to perpetrate voting fraud. Musk has made dozens of misleading or debunked claims about voting, which have been viewed hundreds of millions of times on the platform and election officials say have begun to spill over into the real world.
Musk will continue tweeting at a rapid rate throughout the morning – 19 times over the next 30 minutes alone. These will include separate attacks on CNBC, CNN and other legacy media outlets he accuses of spreading lies. Musk will meanwhile reply with an exclamation mark to a tweet featuring a blogpost called “Did women in academia cause wokeness?”. The blog’s author is a former professor who was ousted from Cambridge University in 2019 after more than 500 academics signed an open letter condemning his work as “racist pseudoscience” and a university investigation found he collaborated with far-right extremists.
Musk has long described himself as politically independent, but in 2022 announced that he would no longer support the Democratic party. He has framed his conservative shift as the result of Democrats becoming too far left while his positions remain centrist, but his social media feed instead shows that he frequently promotes and interacts with members of the extreme right.
[Insert: Dick. What sort of an American enjoys promoting the lie there is a lot of election fraud, when in fact there is very, very little. One who wants to build mistrust in American elections. An anti-democratic asshole. And Musk is very loose with the truth too. While Democrats have a left faction there is no way the party has moved left to the extent it would force any honest person to leave it to become what Musk obviously has always been.]
At 9.47am and 10.27am, Musk sends replies to Peter Imanuelsen, a far-right influencer whom the Anti-Defamation League has previously described as being “notorious for his extreme racist, anti-Semitic, Christian fundamentalist, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-feminist and conspiracist commentary”. Although Imanuelsen has in recent years disavowed Holocaust denial, he continues to promote far-right, anti-immigrant views.
Musk replied “madness” to both of Imanuelsen’s tweets, which were about two British citizens jailed for violating UK laws against posting offensive or menacing material online. The arrests targeted people posting anti-migrant invectives during Britain’s far-right riots, in which masked rioters tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers.
Sometimes Musk’s interactions with rightwing influencers are banal, but they also have the effect of amplifying their accounts to the billionaire’s nearly 200 million followers. Musk will reply at 9.08am to a post about how Europe doesn’t use air conditioning from Richard Hanania, a conservative thinker popular among tech moguls who wrote for white supremacist publications in the early 2010s under a pseudonym to argue in support of eugenics and the forced sterilization of “low IQ” people.
Your - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/14/elon-musk-tweets-trump-conspiracy
Musk really is a fucking asshole pushing the use of AI fake imagery as he does.
Just one thing, it would be good if you could indicate that what you posted was
only a fraction of the article. Something like i did. Heading with [...] is easy.
One, it took a bit of an effort to be sure yours was an excerpt. Two, there is lots of
interesting stuff in yours, which i would never have known if i hadn't opened the link.
That said, thanks for the informative article. Good post.
Nick Robins-Early
A controversial tweet may make it to the news, but reading every post from the world’s richest man shows how frenzied and extreme he really is
Sat 14 Sep 2024 17.30 AEST
[... long article ...]
One particular fixation of Musk’s is promoting misleading claims and conspiracies about election fraud, a common conservative talking point in the Trump era. At 9.26am, Musk makes a demand for paper ballots instead of electronic voting machines, echoing a popular rightwing narrative that such machines are used to perpetrate voting fraud. Musk has made dozens of misleading or debunked claims about voting, which have been viewed hundreds of millions of times on the platform and election officials say have begun to spill over into the real world.
Musk will continue tweeting at a rapid rate throughout the morning – 19 times over the next 30 minutes alone. These will include separate attacks on CNBC, CNN and other legacy media outlets he accuses of spreading lies. Musk will meanwhile reply with an exclamation mark to a tweet featuring a blogpost called “Did women in academia cause wokeness?”. The blog’s author is a former professor who was ousted from Cambridge University in 2019 after more than 500 academics signed an open letter condemning his work as “racist pseudoscience” and a university investigation found he collaborated with far-right extremists.
Musk has long described himself as politically independent, but in 2022 announced that he would no longer support the Democratic party. He has framed his conservative shift as the result of Democrats becoming too far left while his positions remain centrist, but his social media feed instead shows that he frequently promotes and interacts with members of the extreme right.
[Insert: Dick. What sort of an American enjoys promoting the lie there is a lot of election fraud, when in fact there is very, very little. One who wants to build mistrust in American elections. An anti-democratic asshole. And Musk is very loose with the truth too. While Democrats have a left faction there is no way the party has moved left to the extent it would force any honest person to leave it to become what Musk obviously has always been.]
At 9.47am and 10.27am, Musk sends replies to Peter Imanuelsen, a far-right influencer whom the Anti-Defamation League has previously described as being “notorious for his extreme racist, anti-Semitic, Christian fundamentalist, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-feminist and conspiracist commentary”. Although Imanuelsen has in recent years disavowed Holocaust denial, he continues to promote far-right, anti-immigrant views.
Musk replied “madness” to both of Imanuelsen’s tweets, which were about two British citizens jailed for violating UK laws against posting offensive or menacing material online. The arrests targeted people posting anti-migrant invectives during Britain’s far-right riots, in which masked rioters tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers.
Sometimes Musk’s interactions with rightwing influencers are banal, but they also have the effect of amplifying their accounts to the billionaire’s nearly 200 million followers. Musk will reply at 9.08am to a post about how Europe doesn’t use air conditioning from Richard Hanania, a conservative thinker popular among tech moguls who wrote for white supremacist publications in the early 2010s under a pseudonym to argue in support of eugenics and the forced sterilization of “low IQ” people.
Your - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/14/elon-musk-tweets-trump-conspiracy
Musk really is a fucking asshole pushing the use of AI fake imagery as he does.
Just one thing, it would be good if you could indicate that what you posted was
only a fraction of the article. Something like i did. Heading with [...] is easy.
One, it took a bit of an effort to be sure yours was an excerpt. Two, there is lots of
interesting stuff in yours, which i would never have known if i hadn't opened the link.
That said, thanks for the informative article. Good post.
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