Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport much worse
Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport much worse
The X owner’s commitment to free-speech absolutism contributed to a whirlwind of false reporting around the perpetrator’s identity, writes Alan Rusbridger. Why does he seem to care so little about the truth?
Why does he seem to care so little about the truth?
Why does he care so much about lies?
Money
29With Elmo, it's ego. If he cared about money, he wouldn't have offered to buy Twitter for multiples of its actual value.
14He offered to buy Twitter for multiple times it's value because he was trying to pump and dump the stock but he somehow did it in the stupidest way possible so he got forced into actually buying it instead of dumping the stock he had already bought. Even his ego move was about money.
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He's in the business of selling advertising space. Lies keep eyes on the product through manufacturing outrage.
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I don't usually like these cheesy names people give to people who deserve worse but "Musk's Misinformation Machine" kinda has a ring to it with a ringleader inferred
15"Musk's Misinformation Machine" kinda has a ring
3M, polluting the land.
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Interestingly I am having this pushed by Ground News as a "blindspot" article for the left:
All the outlets are Russian or Infowars:
This is the more blatant side of the Russian disinformation campaign to destabilise the UK.
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