solarbird | Fascism Watch Special Edition: Elon Musk doesn’t just recruit fascists to Twitter, HE PAYS THEM.

(This one won't cross-post for some reason, so I'm doing it manually.)

I’m making this a separate edition of Fascism Watch because we are so far past excuses: Elon Musk pays fascists, misogynists, and alt-right activists of all sorts to be active on Twitter. He pays them THOUSANDS to TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. He does so openly. It is not in contention.

If you are active on Twitter, YOU are helping fund the alt-right. YOU are helping fund, just for example, Andrew Tate, the professional woman-hating misogynist who teaches boys to be misogynists like him, and who is under indictment for rape and sex trafficking. YOU are helping fund conspiracy lunatics like DC_Draino. YOU are helping fund fascist propagandists like Ian Cheong. That’s you.

Twitter is now explicitly worse than most overtly fascist sites. If you’re still on Twitter, you are functionally contributing to the Daily Stormer. There’s no difference now.

Get. The FUCK. Off. Of. Twitter.

That’s really all I have to say. Get the fuck off twitter, get the FUCK off twitter, GET THE FUCK OFF OF TWITTER.

But since I had them, here’s some Twitter fash shit I was going to include in the next Fascism Watch:

Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation, writes the BBC. I’d’ve used a disinformation word there, since so many of them are in bed with Putin. Twitter and Musk are doing everything they can also to keep Nazi and other racist and anti-semitic tweets up even as places like Germany bring legal action. Finally, Elon links and boosts posts from people defending and supporting the use of racist language, because he’s a fucking white supremacist, stop pretending he’s not already.

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