Elon Musk

[The Valkyrie]

Elon Musk and the danger to democracy

With nearly 195mn followers, he is America’s most influential purveyor of disinformation. In total he has made 50 posts since January 1 that have been debunked by independent fact checkers, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate. These were viewed 1.2bn times. They included a deep fake video that purportedly showed Kamala Harris calling herself “the ultimate diversity hire”.

In the last few days, he has commented repeatedly on the racist riots in Britain. He has forecast a coming UK civil war, condemned Britain’s prime minister Sir Keir Starmer for alleged bias towards non-whites and implied that Britain’s immigration policies were responsible for the murder of three girls last week in Southport. Posts by figures who were banned under Twitter’s previous ownership, such as Tommy Robinson, a fringe and four-times-jailed extreme right British activist, have gone viral.

On Thursday, Musk promoted another far right British figure — Ashlea Simon, co-founder of Britain First, also a white supremacist splinter group — who claimed Starmer planned to send British rioters to detention camps in the Falkland Islands. Simon’s post cited a fake Daily Telegraph story carrying that headline, a story the Telegraph quickly pointed out was invented. Musk deleted his tweet but only after it had made about 2mn impressions and with no apology for his error.

The difference between X and say the right-leaning GB News in the UK, or whatever platform the far-right radio host Alex Jones is using in America, is that the latter two are siloed channels. X claims to be the public square. In some respects, people are right to point out that “Twitter is not real life”. It isn’t. But when racist thugs falsely learn on X that refugees are child killers then gather to burn down refugee hostels — the site becomes all too real. At critical moments, X has become a key vector for potentially lethal untrue assertions. That its owner would endorse some of them ought to be a matter of public interest.

https://www.ft.com/content/bdd100a8-4817...a760aaebf1

Actually, I kinda like the idea of sending ALL detained rioters to the Falklands, ..

...the giving them back to Argentina

[Fake Messiah]

The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said he received a Tesla Cybertrack from Elon Musk. He promised to send it to the "special military operation" zone and attached a machine gun to it.


So it begins

[Thumpalumpacus]

He's only returning the love Elon gives. He only hopes that rolling dumpst -- er, "truck", can even be be sold there.

[Nanny]

I chuckle every time I see one of those stupid things. I want to find one with the license plate FANBOI

[HappySkeptic]

I saw one recently. It looks like something out of a bad 70's Sci-Fi movie. You know, where they take an existing car and add a bunch of wood or foam panels to it, so that it looks "futuristic".

I friend of mine (a Musk fan) said that it is a deliberate parody. It is meant to be stupid and ugly. I guess its a counter-culture thing?

[Angrboda]

I saw one painted black. It didn't look bad.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I saw one recently.  It looks like something out of a bad 70's Sci-Fi movie.  You know, where they take an existing car and add a bunch of wood or foam panels to it, so that it looks "futuristic".

I friend of mine (a Musk fan) said that it is a deliberate parody.  It is meant to be stupid and ugly.  I guess its a counter-culture thing?

I don't think Musk does Meta.

[Fake Messiah]

Two sanctioned Russian oligarchs helped Musk to purchase Twitter

An investment fund linked to the sons of Russian oligarchs Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich played a role in helping Elon Musk acquire Twitter, now rebranded as X.

Among the investors identified in 2024 through court-mandated disclosures, the venture capital firm 8VC stands out as one of the 100 largest backers of the acquisition. 8VC, a U.S.-based fund, includes among its personnel the sons of Russian oligarchs Aven and Moshkovich, both of whom have been the subject of Western sanctions due to their associations with Russia’s political elite. According to Forbes 8VC invests in companies that fulfil contracts for the U.S. Department of Defence and NATO.

https://eutoday.net/russian-oligarch-beh...-purchase/

So that's why Musk sabotaged Ukrainian army by deliberately disabling Starlink and disrupting the Ukrainian attack on the russian Black Sea fleet, and, you know, constantly pushed Ukraine to stop its “futile fight” and get to the ceasefire.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Two sanctioned Russian oligarchs helped Musk to purchase Twitter

An investment fund linked to the sons of Russian oligarchs Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich played a role in helping Elon Musk acquire Twitter, now rebranded as X.

Among the investors identified in 2024 through court-mandated disclosures, the venture capital firm 8VC stands out as one of the 100 largest backers of the acquisition. 8VC, a U.S.-based fund, includes among its personnel the sons of Russian oligarchs Aven and Moshkovich, both of whom have been the subject of Western sanctions due to their associations with Russia’s political elite. According to Forbes 8VC invests in companies that fulfil contracts for the U.S. Department of Defence and NATO.

https://eutoday.net/russian-oligarch-beh...-purchase/

So that's why Musk sabotaged Ukrainian army by deliberately disabling Starlink and disrupting the Ukrainian attack on the russian Black Sea fleet, and, you know, constantly pushed Ukraine to stop its “futile fight” and get to the ceasefire.

One more reason to hate the bleedin' cunt.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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