Today in Elon’s Radical Free Speech News

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Exactly as predicted by me and many others, propagandists – Russian in particular – are big, big buyers of #Twitter Blue. Elon also knows this, and it’s part of how he’s wanting to turn Twitter profitable – by turning it into a disinformation and alt-right propaganda fountain. He’s helping, of course, by personally retweeting their disinformation, in addition to algorithmically boosting it:

[Except from linked Washington Post story stating my summary in more words]

It is, as always, a very good day to leave Musk Twitter.

Oh, also:

Before Elon, Twitter used to publish information on what information governments were asking it to censor, or demanding it censor, depending upon the country involved. India in particular has ramped up this practice over the last few years. That information is no longer published.

If, as he said, “Transparency is the key to trust,” Twitter is very definitely not worthy of trust.

Again: it’s a good day to leave Twitter.

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