91/ Musk says manipulating public opinion is key to success per others, admits building AI to do it, & is engaging in "psy ops", operations to convey selected information to influence emotions, motives, & objective reasoning, & ultimately behavior of govts, orgs, & individuals.
92/ (clarification to #91) Tweets 1-90 in this thread show that Musk is actually doing what he accuses others of doing in screenshots of #91. Compare to when Trump accuses others of something, which is typically an admission. This is an example of "psyop" methods.
93/ Musk labelled NPR “state-affiliated media,” as done w Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua.
Before, Twitter guidelines said govt funded media don't get label if editorial independence from govt, giving BBC & NPR as examples.
NPR has independence. Twitter labeled w/o explanation.
94/ Musk is amplifying Kremlin misinformation accounts, including Putin's presidential account, after restricting them last year.
When Twitter was public, it suppressed Russian misinformation.
95/ Musk censored at request of Indian govt, without specifying any Twitter policy violations.
When govt directed Twitter to remove people, Twitter blocked 120+ journalists, politicians, & activists, & blocked handle of BBC Punjabi bureau.
India is 3rd biggest Twitter market.
96/ Musk amplifies Covid antiscience & 2020-election-fraud conspiracy theorists like KanekoaTheGreat. Musk amplifies conspiracy theories & encourages distrust in scientific expertise, where self-research is impossible for people untrained in advanced statistics & epidemiology.
97/ Musk drove NPR & PBS away from Twitter by misleading label of "government funded media", like Russian & Chinese media, without indicating editorial independence. They are publicly funded. Musk then falsely said he only labelled them "publicly funded". (Also see #93 above☝️)
98/ Musk didn't deny it when MSNBC Ari Member warned Musk can secretly manipulate info & visibility to alter elections, & it wouldn't be known till after election, if ever. Musk falsely said it happened to Trump, but Musk was "fair & transparent", cf FOX slogan "fair & balanced".
99/ Musk updated Twitter's hateful conduct policy to specifically remove protections for trans people, from targeted misgendering and deadnaming.
Musk previously wrote "the pendulum swung too far" towards equality for LGBTQ people (also see tweets #23, 43, & 87 above☝️).
100/ Musk-Twitter made this entire thread "unavailable" to some, but *not* to me & a few others.. except for the 1st & last tweet so it's not detected.
Twitter ZEROES out ENTIRE list of accounts I follow, so no one can DM me notice when it happens, & I don't get notifications.👇
101/ Musk-Twitter blanked my DMs & "Cautioned" everyone against viewing my profile & tweets when it ZEROED accounts I followed & made my Musk thread "unavailable" (see #100)
Non-explanation: "There has been some unusual activity from this account. Do you still want to visit it?"
102/ Musk CENSORS statisticians & medical experts, & boosts antiscience & antivaxxers so much (see #10 ), that he can't see reality-based science news over the noise he created!!!
103/ Musk cites Twitter Source to claim he was right re Fauci lied & killed millions:
Bulgarian blog site "Zero Hedge", article written by "Tyler Durden" (Fight Club fictional character played by Brad Pitt), w article citing Twitter conspiracy theorist @KanekoaTheGreat as source.
104/ Musk & his cult celebrate 4-20 as "Elon Musk Day".
It's also Hitler's Birthday.
It's also celebrated by psychopath killers as Columbine Mass Shooter Day.
The 100+ tweets in this thread, with 300+ Musk screenshots, show Musk ran out of "coincidence" as an excuse, long ago.
105/ Musk uses propaganda method that allows plausible deniability. He comments to antivaxxers, consp theorists, neonazis, antisemites, homophobes, racists, etc, to boost them/tweet. But comment is ambiguous, so Musk can deny anything. Eg:
Concerning
Wow
Interesting
Correct
!!!
106/ Musk ambiguously comments (see #105) & tweets
It appears overreach to interpret *individual* tweet or comment as boosting Nazis
But *collectively* (see #1-104), it's statistically impossible to be coincidental:
88, 4-20, Pepe, Kek, Ye, Baked Alaska, Bolsonaro, Wagner, etc
107/ Musk removed Legacy Blue checks from established journalists, & boosted paid Blues to top replies, so false info isn't visibly fact-checked.
When @DavidSacks boosted Jim Jordan's false leak re Blinken, & Musk boosted Sacks' tweet, 1st fact check was 1000s of replies down.
108/ (part 1/2) Musk made my replies invisible after posting this
new Meme-for-Twitter:
"Everything's Fine"
109/ (part 2/2) Musk made my replies invisible except to me (shadow ban), if they contained the words "new Meme-for-Twitter" with #108 vid clip☝️
Try posting those words w vid clip, or retweeting #108. Your tweet or retweet will be shadow banned, or you'll defeat my shadow ban👇
110/ Musk search banned tweet #107☝️, which showed how Musk & his crony, @DavidSacks, boosted Jim Jordan's FALSE INFO re Secretary of State Blinken & Twitter, then made *transcripts* disproving the false info invisible, by deboosting accounts without Twitter Blue.
111/ Musk is CENSORING new Twitter-meme in #108.
112/ Musk made Twitter a source of junk science re climate change.
Respected climate scientist @PeterGleick sums it up.
Boosting paid Blue-Check science-deniers to top of replies, & deboosting established scientists & journalists to last, makes Twitter a junk science cesspool.
113/ Spoutible is NOT a Musk alternative.
Owner @cbouzy faked data analysis in 2022 election, to promote #Spoutible. When I asked math/stats questions bc his "receipts" were math-nonsense, his cult attacked me as "racist", he blocked me, & his Bot Sent tagged me as "problematic"
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