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Britain's far right is booming on Elon Musk's Twitter

web.archive.org Britain's far right is booming on Elon Musk's Twitter

Changes on the social media platform have been described as a "dream come true" for extremist parties.

Calling himself a “free speech absolutist”, Musk granted an amnesty to hundreds of accounts that had been kicked off the platform. Within hours, those belonging to right-wing Britain First leader Paul Golding, along with former deputy Jayda Fransen and the party itself, reappeared. “We’re absolutely pleased,” Golding says. “Now that we’re back on Twitter, our following is growing very, very rapidly.

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I'm going to go ahead and say this is all by design.

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- Yep, now people who buy into Musk's Twitter Blue are boosted on the site, and the only people willing to buy into that are right wingers and bootlickers
  
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- Yeah this is a feature not a bug
  
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- He's desperate to make Twitter profitable, so he's embracing the biggest bunch of marks on the planet, the supporters of right-wing politicians.
  
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As one had asked to define 'far right': I just stumbled upon the article on a white nationalist publisher’s data exposed in Amazon cloud leak

The right winger in the article is the US citizen Greg Johnson. His views reveal a completely insane state of mind. How out of touch can one get?

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Define far-right

Probably just wants common-sense immigration.

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- what an absolutely delicious lack of critical thinking
  
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- bahahahahahahahahahahaha
  
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- @Blamenta
  
  Define far-right
  
  Scroll down a bit, it's a tiny sample what it means.
  
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  I did. It's just a bunch of articles, all randomly served up. Looks like common sense immigration policy, common sense environmental policy, that sort of thing.
  
  Man, y'all are just stuck in your echo chambers, aren't you?
  
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