The former X CEO often goes too far in boosting content from real whackos as he fights to make sure Twitter does the work the media won’t.
Elon Musk deleted a tweet where he promoted accounts that have spread misinformation about Hamas and Israel.Doubling of NYC migrant inflow proves the border is still open — and Adams’ trip won’t change a thingLike a since-deleted tweet saying that “For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors and @sentdefender are good.”
Ah, no: @WarMonitors is a pro-Palestine account that once tweeted “mind your own business, jew” at Morton-Williams co-owner Avi Kaner. The trouble is that when Musk — who owns the platform and a man whose tweets move markets — tells his nearly 160 million followers to check out a feed like that, it sends a powerful message.
Musk gets this, of course, which is why he deleted the tweet and then took @warmonitors to task subsequently. He pumped up a story suggesting that Paul Pelosi’s attacker,people in the world with any right to criticize. But Musk is one of the richest and most powerful people alive and the most followed account on the site, not some no-name rando posting from the hip.
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