Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport much worse - eviltoast
The X owner’s commitment to free-speech absolutism contributed to a whirlwind of false reporting around the perpetrator’s identity, writes Alan Rusbridger. Why does he seem to care so little about the truth?
    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      151·
      3 months ago

      With Elmo, it’s ego. If he cared about money, he wouldn’t have offered to buy Twitter for multiples of its actual value.

      • evidences@lemmy.world
        13·
        3 months ago

        He offered to buy Twitter for multiple times it’s value because he was trying to pump and dump the stock but he somehow did it in the stupidest way possible so he got forced into actually buying it instead of dumping the stock he had already bought. Even his ego move was about money.

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      He’s in the business of selling advertising space. Lies keep eyes on the product through manufacturing outrage.

  • ganksy@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 months ago

    I don’t usually like these cheesy names people give to people who deserve worse but “Musk’s Misinformation Machine” kinda has a ring to it with a ringleader inferred

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Interestingly I am having this pushed by Ground News as a “blindspot” article for the left:

    All the outlets are Russian or Infowars:

    This is the more blatant side of the Russian disinformation campaign to destabilise the UK.