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OT: American Politics

axlsalinger said:
3rd Elon post of the day (that I've seen) endorsing some nonsensical anti-Kamala bullshit. Exercising free speech to spend $40 billion dollars on a $10 billion company to try and help steal an election is something we should all aspire to, I guess.


View: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1824663503287759332
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there might be a method to his madness, and it’s frightening


View: https://x.com/carolecadwalla/status/1825089067849064798?s=46&t=ZFoeJpONFeL00lgZvCrr2Q


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>>>>And if you’re not terrified by both the extraordinary supranational power of that and the potential consequences, you should be. If Musk chooses to “predict” a civil war in the States, what will that look like? If he chooses to contest an election result? If he decides that democracy is over-rated? This isn’t sci-fi. It’s literally three months away.

None of this is happening in a vacuum. For a brief minute after 2016, there was an attempt to understand how these tech platforms had been used to spread lies and falsehoods – or mis- and disinformation – as we came to know them and to try to prevent it. But that moment has passed. A years-long effort by Republican operatives to politicise the entire subject of “misinformation” has won. It barely even now exists in US tech circles. Anyone who suggests it does – researchers, academics, “trust and safety” teams – are now all part of the “censorship industrial complex”.
 
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