Elon Musk Is Kanye West Is Elon Musk
Welcome to the new America, where two narcissistic billionaires control what we talk about, and how.
by Ben Cohen
The Great Tech Genius Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has not been a smooth one. The social media platform was almost immediately overrun by right wing trolls, even after Musk tweeted out a direct statement to advertisers assuring them the platform wouldn’t become a “free-for-all hellscape”.
Musk then made good on his promise by tweeting out a revolting right wing conspiracy theory about the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi and firing the entire Twitter board.
As someone who uses Twitter regularly, I can confirm that the social media platform is not, as Musk promised advertisers, “warm and welcoming to all”. It is, as I predicted several months ago, a shit show filled with racists, bigots and conspiracy theorists. My feed is jammed full of people spreading all sorts of idiotic misinformation, advertisers are running for the hills, and prominent voices on the platform are leaving in droves.
The Right wing twitter universe has been emboldened by their anti-woke, free speech maxi billionaire superhero sticking it to the Libs, and declared Twitter a woke-free zone, liberated from the censorship of effete San Francisco Democrats.
Here is a small sample of what my current Twitter feed now looks like (and I don’t follow any of these accounts):
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