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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

Election disinformation from Elon Musk is drawing billions of views on X

www.motherjones.com

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Election disinformation from Elon Musk is drawing billions of views on X

www.motherjones.com

jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 9 months ago
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A new report reveals the vast reach of anti-immigrant and anti-Harris disinformation shared by the Trump-backing mogul.
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    Election interference charges should be filed…soon?

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      Give them six years and depending on the election results and whether the SC feels like supporting democracy - after that it’ll be maybe considered that someone might wag their finger about it.

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      Merrick Garland: 🔥“This is fine”🔥

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      Adorable that you think billionaires spreading disinformation during an election legally counts as election interference. Is this your first election?

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    When Musk was first buying Twitter, this was one of the things I told people he would do. This was his plan from the beginning and seeing people, especially my friends and coworkers, finally realize this is cathartic and disappointing at the same time.

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    Just think how outrageous it would have been if Jack Dorsey did the same thing. He probably would have been arrested, or at least dragged to Congress many times.

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      it pays to be a gov contractor. imo we should have a law gov contractors can’t own media companies - a separation of media and state law. Its a conflict of interest

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    Probably mostly Russian troll farms, China troll farms, North Korea troll farms, and I’m sure there are other troll farms.

    I’d say it’s safe to ignore.

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    What a coincidence you use the character ‘X’ to cross out stuff you don’t want!

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    People still use X?

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      Sadly yes, JimmyBigSausage. Sadly yes.

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    Well views, yes. I’m guessing a lot of those are looking for cringe. Still crazy, but I highly doubt the implied claim that he’s influencing billions with some kind of truth.

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