A year after the world's richest man acquired the social media platform, a game plan published by a fired Trump White House staffer provides a clue.

A year after the world’s richest man acquired the social media platform, a game plan published by a fired Trump White House staffer provides a clue.

  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    731·
    1 year ago

    They just have the same boss, Putin.

    The article then expressed sympathy for the Russian-government-controlled news outlets Russia Today and Sputnik, saying they had been unfairly “canceled” after Russia invaded Ukraine. Musk ended the use of “state-sponsored media” labels on Twitter this year, dropping it from the accounts of Russia Today, Sputnik and many other state-owned organizations. The change reportedly prompted RT editor Margarita Simonyan to send Musk a note of appreciation.

    • logicbomb@lemmy.world
      781·
      1 year ago

      So, he ran PBS and NPR off of Twitter with the “state-sponsored media” label earlier this year (to great public outrage), and he also removed the same label from the Russian propaganda rag Russia Today?

        • athos77@kbin.social
          12·
          1 year ago

          Elon Musk grew up as a rich white boy in full-apartheid South Africa and has never had to confront or change his views. He’s always been this way, he just can’t be bothered to try to mitigate the damage any more.

          • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            There has to be a connection between that, and all the n-words, kkk, and nazi shit happening in his factories too.