Recently, a Finnish PhD candidate made waves on social media by pointing out that Elon Musk is rapidly becoming one of the largest spreaders of disinformation in human history.
But Musk’s response? “F you, retard.”
Yes, the best that a man who has been relentlessly touted by corporate media as a “genius” could muster was a juvenile pejorative that would have put any other schoolyard bully in detention.
In contrary to prevailing fiction, Musk is not a genius. He’s more like a a supervillain from a Marvel comic with a good marketing team and a compliant lapdog media behind him, dead set on dragging the world to his level of depravity.
Under Musk’s control, Twitter (now tediously rebranded as X) has devolved into a festering pit of disinformation. Once a platform with at least some semblance of standards, it now hosts a cesspool of Russian bots, Nazis, KKK apologists, and other merchants of hate, all of whom thrive on Musk’s sickening encouragement. He isn’t just a passive observer of this chaos; he’s an active purveyor of it. And for what? To empower the most deplorable movements undermining democracy and human decency all to make himself even richer.
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