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But it’s representative of the broader intellectual pressure campaign by major conservative business leaders, personalities, donors, and politicians to shape Musk’s thinking about free speech and his moderation policies on Twitter. The contents of the article, after all, are pretty edgy, even for Musk, a self-described “edge-lord” whose politics have drifted steadily rightward in the post- Obama era. It is unclear how Musk responded to this person, if he did so at all. The piece heralded Musk’s potential acquisition as “nothing less than a declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire” and went on to describe Twitter as a platform controlled by “America’s decrepit and illegitimate ruling class” to promote its liberal agenda on everything from transgender people to the war in Ukraine. The link to the article wasn’t included in the exchange, but it was simple enough to uncover its origin on the far-right website Revolver News.
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An unidentified person, their name redacted by the court, had sent Musk an article hypothesizing the potential backlash to him owning Twitter, and offering suggestions about how to manage the re-platforming of certain banned right-wing power users, including “the boss”-codename among Trump’s underlings for the big man, himself.
I was poring over the 33 pages of Elon Musk’s texts, recently disclosed in court filings submitted in his now possibly defunct Twitter litigation, when I stumbled across an intriguing exchange. News and notes on Musk’s anti-lib Twitter focus group, Truth Social’s declining fortunes, and Dr. Tomorrow will be worse.Įlon’s Twitter Plans & Oz’s Romney Resurrection I’ll see you back here next week everybody. It’s like he’s less of a thought leader, and more of a weathervane. What struck me about Tina’s piece, though, is the extent to which Musk, who loves to pat himself on the back as an independent, even renegade, thinker, is so at the mercy of the advice of right-wingers pinging his phone. Tina does a masterful job of decoding them and taking us on this safari, telling us which right-winger whispering in Musk’s ear is which. My colleague Tina Nguyen went and got the goods, diving into the reams of Elon Musk’s text messages that came out in the now-likely-defunct Twitter lawsuit. Must wants to buy Twitter because he thinks he knows better how that media platform should be run and is playing footsie with the land-grabbing, European ethnofascist du jour: Vladimir Putin.īut those are just my musings. Ford bought a newspaper just so he could the publish anti-Semitic tracts that were too outlandish for other outlets, and played footsie with Adolf Hitler, whom he evidently saw as a great man. Unfortunately, for all of us, both Musk and Ford’s egos come with some pretty ugly politics. If he could solve cars, why couldn’t he solve the world’s most complex political problems? He is, after all, a genius. A brilliant automotive innovator and industrialist who, to our chagrin, decides that making cars better and better is too small a job for his large mind and decides to dabble in politics.
In light of recent news that Elon Musk’s extremely pro-Russian proposal to end the war in Ukraine had actually/allegedly been born of a conversation he had with Vladimir Putin, I’ve been thinking a lot more about how Musk is our generation’s Henry Ford. Hello, and welcome back to Tomorrow Will Be Worse!
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