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Nov 18, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
all the why Elon Musk bought Twitter theories are overthinking it.

it’s simple.

Musk is in a right wing filter bubble. he bought Twitter believing their problems were real & that others felt the same

this is what happens when you have a lot of money & live in fantasy land
just look at Elon Musk’s private texts that were released

this isn’t some strategic genius move

it’s a bunch of out-of-touch weirdos angry at “woke culture” and thinking the rest of the world shares their bizarre fixations on this stuff
Elon Musk recently deleted a tweet claiming Twitter was the largest driver of traffic in the internet

this is nowhere near true!

why did he believe this? because his right wing bubble is obsessed with this platform. he believed it’s outsized importance because of them. Image
Elon Musk has regularly replied to complaints from right wingers on Twitter since taking over

who else receives this kind of attention from him

he’s surrounded himself with this stuff. it’s all he sees on his feeds ImageImageImage
Elon Musk’s $8 plan for a verified badge is obviously about money

but why did he think there was a market for this?

because right wingers on here are obsessed with the blue check!

in reality, only around 150,000 signed up for Musk’s plan so far & many of them are right wingers
lets not forget the VCs in Elon Musk's orbit who he immediately brought on board to help him run Twitter

take David Sacks for example. these are the people who have his ear. ImageImage
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Feb 8, 2025
Elon Musk killing the CFPB isn't to help you

its to help his rich tech buddies scam you

look at him with his buddy Austen here just a day ago

the government didn't unfairly come after Austen. the CFPB found that Austen and his company were deceiving people like you. Image
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like look at this shit

this guy was trying to get people to pay him with promises of getting a job in tech

he claimed here that in one instance 100% of his students got a job

the CFPB found that there was literally ONE SINGLE STUDENT in this "very small sample size" Image
the selling point for Musk's buddy's school was an "Income Sharing Agreement"

the scheme was you would have to pay them a percentage of future earnings after "graduating" the school & getting a job

but Austen's company came for their earnings even if they didn't get a tech job Image
Read 4 tweets
Nov 10, 2023
here's Malcolm Nance spreading the Pallywood conspiracy theory, which claims paid "crisis actors" are faking their deaths in Gaza

this is like Alex Jones' Sandy Hook hoax nonsense

it is not true. myself & other disinfo reporters have debunked this many times

here's a 🧵
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who is the person in the videos?

Saleh Aljafarawi, a popular social media influencer in Gaza

why do you see him so much? he has 2+ million followers so a lot of people share his videos

his content is much like influencers everywhere else: videos of him doing different things
there is a claim that he faked being hopsitalized

but he didn't. media of a man in a hospital bed being spread...is not him

these pics and videos are all from the summer, well before Oct. 7 and they are of a completely different person in the West Bank
Read 7 tweets
Oct 8, 2023
Elon Musk boosting two regular fake news posters who have historically posted debunked videos

neither are on the ground or verify. both have shared AI-generated videos in the past as real.

they just share any garbage they come across to rack up views. Image
Read 5 tweets
Apr 12, 2023
i’m listening to this Twitter Space with Elon Musk and a BBC tech reporter and this BBC reporter is wholly unprepared for this and is just letting Musk steamroll him

i assume this is why Musk accepted the interview but this is embarrassing
Elon Musk said he’d “take questions” but just added his favorite fanboys as speakers who just started jumping in to defend him against the mealy mouthed questions the BBC reporter asked (who then claimed his interview with Elon was technically over so he didn’t care)

what a joke
one of Elon’s fans on the Twitter Space asked about the future of the Twitter Files now that he’s had a falling out with all his hand-picked writers who were working on them

Elon went on to say that the Twitter Files were “done, there’s not much left really…we need to move on”
Read 4 tweets
Mar 7, 2023
there’s no reason to treat someone like this

just an absolutely horrible person
hmm just publicly airing out the private health info of a disabled now-former (apparently) employee

can’t possibly be any potential issues there
seems like Musk didn’t want to pay the designer he laid off his exit package compensation and thought he could just…avoid letting the guy know if he was employed?
Read 4 tweets
Dec 9, 2022
everything that Bari Weiss is currently “breaking” as part of Twitter Files 2 has been reported on and known about for two and a half years vice.com/en/article/jgx…
what Bari Weiss is “unveiling” in her Twitter Files part 2 is also how Elon Musk said he was going to run content moderation on the platform
Read 7 tweets

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