#ElonMusk just restored white supremacist & virulent anti-semite Nick Fuentes.

I considered including video to show how bad he is.

But I'm holding off. His comments on women, jewish people etc are poison.

Just know, Musk is giving Fuentes a huge revenue gift.👇
Musk is turning #Twitter back into a radicalizing funnel for extremists.

Please, don't share or engage with any content produced by Fuentes.

You may think your immediate followers know better, but unless done with care, you are still helping him reach a larger audience.
Nick Fuentes' grift: say shocking things like "women should be in burkas!"

Taliban stuff.

It makes people angry and engaged. Some share the content to criticize it.

But he's playing a numbers game.

For every X people that agree with the critique, Y people see & get curious...
Extremist entrepreneurs sow our anger, then harvest the engagement as profit.

Twitter unfortunately plays right in.

And with extremists returning, the rage farming is getting worse again.

Learn more on the #ragefarming @Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_farm… Rage farming or rage-baitin...A 7 January 2022 voting mem...Accounts like these "h...

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Jan 21
Twitter, I need a plot twist in the next hour.

A scammer pretending to be the boss is trying to trick an organization's staff into buying him gift cards...

So I concocted a fake story to take him for a ride.

What should happen next?
I think the best way to do this is send the scammer the top voted reply when the hour is up.
3/ Went with the most upvoted.

We're at the florist now.
Read 17 tweets
Jan 12
"Most chefs cook with gas"

Heard that recently?

That's because this framing comes from industry groups.

Does it remind you of anything?
2/ Start looking & you can find the find the "chefs prefer gas" framing all over the place.

It comes from industry groups, pressure groups & utilities.
3/ "Natural gas is the main ingredient to a perfect meal"

Corny & mostly ignored. But all over.

Until the temperature turns up on the issue & the pre-baked propaganda is ready to be served by politicians & lobbying groups.
Read 8 tweets
Jan 12
Musk is still suppressing speech.

Check for yourself.

Search for "Ken Klippenstein" (@kenklippenstein)

Unless you follow him he won't show up as a suggestion.

Why? Well, he did recently post a widely-viewed video of a self-driving Tesla crash...
We don't know for sure why @kenklippenstein
doesn't currently show up in *search suggestions.*

But Musk has established a pattern of micromanaging little retributions... making the timing here incredibly suspect.

None of these are Ken's actual, verified account.
Note: redoing 2 tweets to make sure it's clear we're talking about *search suggestions* which are different than *search results*

Left: search suggestions
Right: search results, where you can still find the account right now.

Obviously, Ken should show up on both.
Read 5 tweets
Jan 9
The day after an attempted Coup in Brazil, Musk just restored Ali Alexander's Twitter.

Here's Ali on Jan 5, 2021 leading a chant of "Victory or Death"

This ends badly 1/
2/ After being banned from Twitter after #Jan6, Ali Alexander moved his civil war incitement to Telegram.

Ali is an absolute liability for any platform that hosts him.

3/ Stop the Steal architect & civil war inciter Ali Alexander has plans to get a bunch of attention on Twitter.

Don't be rage farmed.

You can *not participate* by never Replying & never Quote Tweeting him.

Screenshot if you must & use a #TruthSandwich.
Read 4 tweets
Jan 9
BREAKING: Supreme Court *denies* #NSO Group's cert petition.

Massive blow to the notorious spyware company.

@WhatsApp's lawsuit against them in Federal court is now clear to go ahead & move towards discovery.

Source: supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
2/ Background: #NSO Group was sued by @WhatsApp for the 2019 hacking of 1.4k WA with NSO's notorious spyware.

NSO tried *every delay tactic* to stop the lawsuit.

Their last hope? Petitioning the Supreme Court to hear their case & give them immunity.

apnews.com/article/us-sup…
3/ NSO Group didn't just petition the Supreme Court.

They asked the Court to ask the Solicitor General to weigh in.

As a strategy, this turned out to be a misjudgment.👇
Read 5 tweets
Jan 8
BREAKING: pro-#Bolsonaro rioters breach Congress, Supreme Court & Presidential Palace in 🇧🇷#Brazil.

Ex president promotes a stolen election lie & has been close to Trump.

He skipped inauguration of his predecessor & flew to Florida.

By: @peterbmillard
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2/ What does this remind you of?

🇧🇷#Brazil is yet more proof that the "stolen election" lie is poison for Democracy.

3/ Appalling footage is surfacing of pro-#Bolsonaro rioters dragging and beating the police protecting 🇧🇷#Brazil's capitol.

This is very, very bad.

And looks extremely orchestrated.
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