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Elon Musk dunks on Facebook and recommends Signal in wake of U.S. Capitol insurrection attempt
TechCrunch ^ | 1/7/2021 | Darrell Etherington

Posted on 01/07/2021 10:57:53 AM PST by MountainWalker

Elon Musk, the tech billionaire set to likely soon become the world’s richest man, and one of the most influential voices in the world of tech entrepreneurship, continued his recent trend of criticizing Facebook with a Twitter post late Wednesday night, following the attempted insurrection by pro-Trump rioters at the U.S. Capitol building. Musk shared a meme suggesting the founding of Facebook ultimately led to the day’s disastrous and shameful events.

Musk, who has himself used his massive reach (he has around 42.5 million followers on Twitter) to spread misinformation to his many followers, specifically around COVID-19 and its severity, also followed that up on Thursday morning with a reply expressing a lack of surprise at WhatsApp’s new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which will make sharing data from WhatsApp users back to Facebook mandatory for all on the platform.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO also recommended that people instead use Signal, an encrypted messaging client which uses encryption by default and which is based on open-source standards. Side-note: If you do end up following Musk’s advice, you should also enable the app’s “disappearing messages” feature for an added layer of protection on both ends of the conversation.

Musk has a long history of opposing the use of Facebook, including the deletion of not just his own personal page, but also those of both Tesla and SpaceX, in 2018 during the original #deletefacebook campaign following the revelation of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; facebook
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1 posted on 01/07/2021 10:57:53 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: MountainWalker

TechCrunch is cancer.


2 posted on 01/07/2021 10:58:47 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: MountainWalker

There is a little voice inside me saying this man will be President some day.

Flame away.....


3 posted on 01/07/2021 11:00:22 AM PST by beancounter13
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To: MountainWalker

Why post crap from this POS publication


4 posted on 01/07/2021 11:00:41 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: beancounter13

He’s South African.


5 posted on 01/07/2021 11:01:37 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: MountainWalker

There is a little voice inside me saying this man will be President some day.

Flame away.....


6 posted on 01/07/2021 11:02:40 AM PST by beancounter13
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To: beancounter13

He can not be President because was born in South Africa. Mind you I just had three power walls installed yesterday so I am contributing to him directly....


7 posted on 01/07/2021 11:02:51 AM PST by fremont_steve
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To: fremont_steve

That’s okay.

We already had 1 Kenyan President....


8 posted on 01/07/2021 11:03:32 AM PST by beancounter13
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To: fremont_steve; bigdaddy45

So you’re saying he’s MORE “African-American” than obama...


9 posted on 01/07/2021 11:05:09 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: fremont_steve

Completely agree. I think Musk is a brilliant man who’s done absolutely incredible things and continues to do so. I think he’s contributed a massive amount to this country and to humanity.

And he should never, ever be President of the United States of America. No foreign born individual ever should.


10 posted on 01/07/2021 11:08:05 AM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: bigdaddy45

Maybe he “identifies” as a natural born citizen. A “Trans-American”. Just like prez-i-muh-dent purple lips.


11 posted on 01/07/2021 11:08:59 AM PST by Mr. Rabbit
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

It is enough that he is a John Galt figure.


12 posted on 01/07/2021 11:11:32 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: MountainWalker

Why would Musk, or any other outsider, put themselves through what trump has been put through?


13 posted on 01/07/2021 11:11:51 AM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: bigdaddy45

He lived most his life in Canada, he has Canadian citizenship, now has US citizenship.


14 posted on 01/07/2021 11:13:01 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: beancounter13

He can certainly finance a contender, even more so than the zuck.


15 posted on 01/07/2021 11:13:26 AM PST by going hot
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To: beancounter13

Elon Musk is a South African, not a natural born citizen. And while this may not matter for swamp critters it will be enforced as is useful and necessary to keep outsiders out.


16 posted on 01/07/2021 11:15:40 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MountainWalker

Don’t have a Facebook account and am mystified as to why anybody in their right mind would post their lives on it for all the world to see.

Just plain stoopid, IMHO.


17 posted on 01/07/2021 11:15:53 AM PST by Glide Plane
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Don’t use the SIGNAL APP. Use the TELEGRAM APP.

The SIGNAL APP is monitored by Twitter.

Here’s some background:

Nov 2011
Whisper Systems is acquired by Twitter, “primarily so that Mr. Marlinspike could help the then-startup improve its security.

Marlinspike is an agent of Twitter.

From a recent headline;
“Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says download Signal as US protests gain steam”

Now why would Dorsey be prodding people over to SIGNAL?


18 posted on 01/07/2021 11:19:55 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: MountainWalker
Musk, who has himself used his massive reach (he has around 42.5 million followers on Twitter) to spread misinformation to his many followers, specifically around COVID-19...

Elon *dared* to note the peculiarity of his own Covid test results, which following sniffles, he took 4 tests. Two came back negative and two positive.

19 posted on 01/07/2021 11:23:00 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: fremont_steve

I didn’t know about the Powerwall. Looked it up. That’s pretty neat! I’ll have a look to see if there’s a charge controller for off-grid solar systems for that.


20 posted on 01/07/2021 11:23:42 AM PST by familyop
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