What’s happening to Twitter/X and why?
Matt Wallace, the grifter who’s making headlines for spreading Maui-conspiracies, is a great example of how conspirators/grifters now flourish on this platform, and how Musk is a key element.
I think I’ll call this thread #TheGrifterFiles:
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Matt Wallace makes money of lying. His trick? Baiting X’s owner & most famous user, Elon Musk.
He constantly tweets everything Musk wants to hear: he tells him he’s a hero, that he fights woke & the media, and how everybody loves him.
And it works like a charm:
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Musk repeatedly replies to him, which brings exposure to Wallace and gradually promotes him & his account.
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People have warned Musk that Wallace is a known scammer. Including people from the DOGE crypto community which Wallace is involved with:
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In the past, Wallace knowingly inflated the value of the DOGE coin, so he could buy it cheap an make profit.
So people know he’s a scammer, Musk knows he’s a scammer, but Musk keeps engaging with him. Why?
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Wallace keeps getting Musk’s attention because he’s good.
He’s really good.
He knows he can get Musk to reply, if he keeps sucking-up to him, and if he throws in some anti-vax & anti-woke talk, the chances of reply are even higher.
Another trick?
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Wallace knows what Musk wants to hear. Musk wants to hear he’s the best Billionaire in the world!
So, Wallace trashes Zuckerberg, Bezos, Cuban and Bill Gates. And now he has Musk in his pocket.
Out of the Billionaires, Bill Gates gets a special treatment:
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Because Bill Gates is the gateway to the second part of Wallace’s grifting: Conspiracy theories.
By constantly posting the most outrageous conspiracy theories he gathers more followers and more shares – which on the new X – mean money.
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Wallace hit the jackpot this week when his fake claims about the Maui fires went viral.
He knows the images he uses are fake.
He knows he’s lying, like he knew he was lying about the crypto coin value.
It’s his business model.
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Besides this new fake, Wallace spreads the ‘Trifecta of Propaganda’ that any self-respected troll must share: Anti-vax, Anti-LGBT & Anti-Ukraine propaganda.
Those 3 topics star in all clickbait & hate-bait profiles, whether they have 1M or 35 followers.
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Conspirators like to mix-and-match their favorite topics – because this way they can recruit people who believe one conspiracy to join another one, and get them more engaged.
Putin is fighting transgenders? Ukraine made Covid? Bonus conspiracy points!
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Wallace’s world also includes constant anti Obama/Clinton/Biden content, and of course you just know George Soros had to be mentioned.
But him mentioning Soros has absolutely no other extra meaning, right?
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Well, Wallace has a loud dog-whistle.
He falsely tweeted about a “Rothschild temple” that doesn’t exist where horrible things happen!!! and claimed “the only outspoken Christian in Hollywood” was poisoned for speaking out just like Kanye.
But I’m sure he meant nothing by that.
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To summarize: a known scammer is using his Twitter account to get rich,
And he’s doing it using two simple tricks:
Knowingly spreading lies, but more importantly, sucking-up to one of the most influential people in the public sphere.
This is Twitter/X under Musk.
A reminder:
This is the the new system.
It's not an exception.
השבוע התייחסה התקשורת לראיון מבחיל של רוג'ר ווטרס, בו הכחיש את הטבח בעוטף. אבל כולם התעלמו מדבר אחד: ווטרס הוא קצה הקרחון.
ווטרס אמר שקרא את הדברים במאמר. על איזה מאמר מדובר? איזה אדם ואיזה גוף תקשורתי יפרסמו עלילת דם כזו? מוזמנים לכתוב ניחוש על פתק בצד, ואז לקרוא את השרשור:
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ווטרס אומר שקרא את הדברים במאמר של ה-Grayzone. ואכן האתר גרייזון פרסם לפני שבועיים מאמר בו נתפרת במלאכת מחשבת עלילת דם לפיה חמאס לא רצח אזרחים והם נהרגו מירי צה"ל. המאמר מתעלם מאלפי עדויות וצילומים שמתעדים את הטבח – את הרצח האכזרי והשיטתי של אלף אזרחים ישראלים – ובונה תיאוריית
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קונספירציה על חלקי אמירות, ברובן מוצאות מהקשרן, משולבות בשקרים ועיוותים.
כדי לדבר על השיטות בהן נבנתה עלילת הדם יש צורך בשרשור נפרד. כאן אני רוצה לספר מיהו מקס בלומנטל שחתום על המאמר, ומהו האתר גרייזון. מעבר לשנאת ישראל, יש הקשר עולמי לדברים שחשוב להבין. אבל נתחיל בשנאת ישראל:
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Elon Musk is having a space about the Israel-Hamas war with his pro-Russian friend David Sachs and Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
Of course, the speakers blame the USA and Ukraine for everything.
I'll summarize:
Musk's speaking. About the danger of World War III. How the soldiers who went to the First World War thought it would be a short war.
Daniel Davis is speaking.
Musk again: Russia has resources and China has production capacity. One should beware of global risk.
Vivek: How right you are Musk
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Musk: The US is like a football team that got used to winning and we forgot that we can lose. We need (*unclear*) in Ukraine so as not to push Russia into a corner. People don't know that Russia is now doing military exercises together with China
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If you want to understand Musk, please read this thread:
Last night Elon Musk stole 3 memes: one against Ukraine, one against vaccines, and one against the media.
Tracing those memes tells you a lot about the man:
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The childish meme about Musk & the media was stolen from the account of Eva McMillan.
Eva belongs to a huge group of people who try to get Musk’s attention by blatantly sucking up to him: Musk loves humanity, his family is great, & he’s the unofficial US president.
Cringy.
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She does it because it worked for many:
they suck up to musk -> get his attention -> get a boost -> get money from X.
How else does she get traffic? By spreading anti-vax, anti-Ukraine, anti-LGBT propaganda.
She shared a post Musk took from WallStreerSilver. Remember the name.
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פגישה של נתניהו עם מאסק היא שגיאה!
לישראל הגיע רק הד עמום מהסאגה של אילון מאסק מול הליגה נגד השמצה (ה-ADL). יותר מכך, דמויות בימין מיהרו לאמץ את הצד של מאסק בסכסוך, במה שראו כקרב של מאסק מול הפרוגרס. זו שגיאה שנובעת מחוסר הבנה, והתוצאה עלולה להיות מתן רוח גבית לאנטישמיות.
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חשוב להבין מה התרחש ברשת החברתית של מאסק, ולעמוד גם על הסיבה להתעלמות בישראל מהאירוע.
ראשית, העובדות: ב-30 באוגוסט צייצו מנכ"ל ה-ADL והמנכ"לית החדשה של X (לשעבר טוויטר) על פגישה מוצלחת ביניהם בה דנו בשיתוף פעולה במאבק בהפצת שנאה ברשת החברתית.
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למחרת, דמויות אנטישמיות ידועות כמו הנאו-נאצי ניק פואנטס פתחו בקמפיין נגד ה-ADL, וקראו לסילוקם מהרשת. בתוך 24 שעות אילון מאסק הבעלים של X סימן לייק לציוץ בנושא של אנטישמי מוצהר אחר, קית וודס.
זו היתה יריית הפתיחה בסערת ציוצים ושיתופים של מאסק נגד הליגה
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Elon Musk, the most followed user and the owner of Twitter (or “X”) is subscribed to an account that spreads antisemitic & illuminati conspiracies.
This means he actually pays this user every month. Musk is only subscribed to 115 people.
He also engaged with this account.
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‘Illuminatibot’ is a popular anonymous account with 1 Million followers. The account is growing fast – two months ago it had 750K followers.
A main theme of the account is that election don’t matter because the governments are controlled by a group of satanic elites.
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The account praises David Icke, who’s known for writing books about the illuminati, for endorsing the antisemitic book “The protocols of the elders of Zion”, for blaming Israel for 9/11 and for claiming the Rothschilds drink blood. He also spreads Covid conspiracies.