A new report reveals the vast reach of anti-immigrant and anti-Harris disinformation shared by the Trump-backing mogul.
    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
      52·
      3 months ago

      Give them six years and depending on the election results and whether the SC feels like supporting democracy - after that it’ll be maybe considered that someone might wag their finger about it.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
      19·
      3 months ago

      Adorable that you think billionaires spreading disinformation during an election legally counts as election interference. Is this your first election?

      • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        I mean a US president was spreading lies about elections and look where that got him… Up for reelection.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
    80·
    3 months ago

    This is what he bought twitter for. This is what he wanted. I hope there aren’t any musk stans left who would be reading this, but in cas you’re not aware, this is the value of twitter

    • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
      5·
      3 months ago

      I just want to say that he didn’t intend to buy Twitter seriously. He was just blabbing his stupid ass mouth and got called out for it. He didn’t buy it willingly. He was forced to buy it.

      Now, he likes to try and make everyone forget that whole fiasco, and actively acts like it was his 4D chess move all along.

      Twitter, under Elongated Muskrat, is nothing special any longer. They have people using it, because people refuse to look at alternatives because they’re lazy as fuck. That’s it. Twitter does NOT have power.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    52·
    3 months ago

    When Musk was first buying Twitter, this was one of the things I told people he would do. This was his plan from the beginning and seeing people, especially my friends and coworkers, finally realize this is cathartic and disappointing at the same time.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    39·
    3 months ago

    Just think how outrageous it would have been if Jack Dorsey did the same thing. He probably would have been arrested, or at least dragged to Congress many times.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      it pays to be a gov contractor. imo we should have a law gov contractors can’t own media companies - a separation of media and state law. Its a conflict of interest

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    24·
    3 months ago

    There’s got to be some way of holding him accountable. There’s the saying that if someone who knows the law well enough examined the course of an average person’s day they’d be able to find some law broken if they wanted to. Can we really not do a goddamn thing about this shitbag?

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      17·
      3 months ago

      I mean there’s always stuff to be done. He’s still a bag of meat that dies if it gets run over by a truck. But legal options? Trickier. He has a lot of money and that buys protection.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      He didn’t commit treason or election fraud. He didn’t expose national security secrets or endanger government agents. He didn’t kill hundreds of thousands by denying the reality of a pandemic. He doesn’t have a long history of bank fraud or contract fraud or tax fraud.

      Anyone can be a jackass, anyone can get so self-centered to the point of self-destructive decisions. Unfortunately this one is propped up by billions of dollars, excessive fame, and his bs is risking what were once visionary companies driving us all toward a better future

  • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
    20·
    3 months ago

    Probably mostly Russian troll farms, China troll farms, North Korea troll farms, and I’m sure there are other troll farms.

    I’d say it’s safe to ignore.

    • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca
      13·
      3 months ago

      See this same pointless comment in every thread about twitter. Yes, there are an absolute ton of stupid people in the world. Copy pasting this same shitty comment won’t change that, but hey that gives you free up votes even though that literally doesn’t matter.

      • JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 months ago

        As long as shitty people keep making shitty comments that could fuck up this fantastic world, we will continue to resist platforms like X, now controlled by shitty people. Not looking for upvotes, this is Lemmy. So back to your X. Back to your nazi buddies.

        • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
          5·
          3 months ago

          How is pretending that X is irrelevant “resisting X”?

          If anything, it comes across as if you are trying to hand wave the issue away. Elon Musk is using the platform to manipulate a huge number of people during an election, and you come in implying that nobody uses X.

          There are ~335,000,000 monthly active X users. That’s a significant captive audience to be on the receiving end of right-wing propaganda.

          Anyone insinuating that X is not a popular site, and not a vector for election misinformation to propagate, are themselves spreading misinformation, and are ultimately carrying water for propagandists.

          Don’t do that.

          • JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee
            3·
            3 months ago

            Noone said it wasn’t a real platform nor popular, it is that we can choose to delete our accounts and not use it because of its owner. Simple, done.

            • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
              3·
              3 months ago

              Nobody said anything about deleting accounts or not using Twitter. You’re just making shit up.

              The comment was “People still use X?”, which is clearly a phrased as rhetorical question intended to suggest that people don’t use X anymore. Hundreds of millions of people use X, so this is an outright lie. That it is being used to dismiss allegations of widespread disinformation only makes the lie more problematic.

                • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  I understand that it is facetious, but the humor in the statement is predicated on oft-repeated misinformation. The “just a joke” rhetoric doesn’t work on me.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, but look what’s happening. There’s articles about it effectively “re-tweeting” it to people who don’t even use twitter and we’re talking about it here. His views aren’t just confined to the bots on twitter.

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
    8·
    3 months ago

    Advertisers are still fleeing the Nazi bar, because no reputable brand wants their ads next to a tweet from @1488.6mwne that Elon decided to boost.