The text messages described a series of actions Musk should take after he gained full control of the social media platform: “Step 1: Blame the platform for its users; Step 2: Coordinated pressure campaign; Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks; Step 4: Deplatforming.”

  • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    3482 years ago

    The strategy was to tank global leftist talking points and disperse the community. His donors are mega rich saudis, russians, and others who benefit from right-wing ideologies being implemented. A blind man could see this before the sun is up.

      • @4am@lemm.ee
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        432 years ago

        “Elon is my hero” - Conservative Free Speech Warrior/Database Admin /u/spez

      • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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        222 years ago

        Also probably why Threads ever existed in the first place, in hopes of killing an uncontrolled venue in its infancy

      • phillaholic
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        62 years ago

        No it’s not. The free money dried up and Reddit wants to go public. It’s no more nefarious than that.

          • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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            132 years ago

            Yeah, the whole 9d chess game idea falls apart when you remember he was sued into buying it.

            Unless… he wanted them to sue him for, um… some reason?

            We also need to remember not to believe his hype - he’s not a super genius, he’s just a rich asshole who knows how to market himself. All the technological accomplishments his companies made were done by engineers, not by him.

        • phillaholic
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          42 years ago

          Strategic Propagandist …………………….|………. Useful Idiot

    • @4am@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been saying this for a while and have been called a conspiracy nut; or at minimum that it’s “unrealistic”.

      Well. Sweet vindication.

      • @Maalus@lemmy.world
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        152 years ago

        You got vindicated by a random user on a platform full of people with rather extreme views. If you say that anywhere else - you’ll still be a conspiracy nut. It’s not clear what he’s doing or why, one can only guess (or create conspiracies if you will)

      • @emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
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        62 years ago

        Likewise. The guy is obnoxious, but you’d have to be pretty dense to believe he wants Twitter to succeed by any conventional metric.

    • @Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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      132 years ago

      Not just them hedge funds are in on it. Anyone with money to lose has chipped in a few billion to the cause