Casey Newton And John Gruber Slink Back To Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Propaganda Machine

I find it endlessly entertaining watching journalists conduct flimsy but elaborate justifications as to why they still use X (formerly Twitter), a right wing propaganda sewer owned by an overt white supremacist directly responsible for the death of what ultimately may be millions of human beings. Quick reminder: Elon Musk is an unremarkable and virulent racist who cosplays as a supergenius engineer. He leveraged the money he lucked into at Paypal to opportunistically glom onto actual innovators and take singular credit for their work while consistently cutting corners in ways that put human lives at risk. There's bottomless evidence he doesn't know how anything works, yet has found unsurprising financial success in a country being devoured alive by artifice.In 2022, butthurt from growing public and journalistic criticism of his bottomless violations of labor rights, environmental law, civil rights, and public safety protections, Musk bought Twitter and immediately turned the platform…