Posted on 12/12/2022 8:06:56 AM PST by RandFan
Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has shown a willingness, and sometimes a relish, to pick public fights with an array of targets, including advertisers, tech giants, employees and more.
But over the weekend, Musk publicly attacked two figures, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, in ways that may resonate with far-right audiences and gin up user engagement — but are likely to deter wary advertisers from flocking back to the social network anytime soon.
“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted on Sunday, scoring points with both critics of the use of nonbinary pronouns and of Mr. Fauci, America’s top immunologist, who disagreed with President Donald Trump on how to reopen the country in 2020. Mr. Musk has previously criticized pandemic lockdowns, having defied one that affected Tesla’s factory in California, and remote work. (Mr. Fauci himself wrote in a Times Opinion guest essay how political divisiveness has hampered public health campaigns.)
Musk’s tweet drew predictable responses, including support from far-right figures like Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and rebukes from Democratic lawmakers like Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. Some on Twitter noted that Musk’s own predictions about the pandemic fell drastically short of reality.
Mr. Musk also spread misinformation about Mr. Roth, misleadingly suggesting that the former Twitter executive’s doctoral thesis advocated for child sexualization. The move opened up Mr. Roth — whom Mr. Musk had publicly supported in the first days of his Twitter ownership, before Mr. Roth quit — to online abuse.
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The media is nothing but a parade and feed on your phone of negative news articles about Elon musk it’s pretty rare to see anything positive one constant bash just like they did trump
Or still do Trump but now they have a neocon help in spades
Who cares what the failing New York Times thinks? Its all a bunch of leftist drivel.
Well, it only took six people to write this.
He picked on “public figures.” Doing the job the NYT refuses to do (unless the public figure is a Republican).
Also love how it’s always “far right” but never “far left” or “communist/socialist.”
When it takes six authors to put out a hit piece you know the NYTimes is in trouble.
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There, fixed it.
I tell you what, he’s currently driving the Left bonkers.
You should see Reddit!
r/Askreddit had a thread on what person do you hate the most, and Elon was up there with Donald Trump.
Every Leftist site is full up on “2 Minutes of Elon Goldberg hate”.
Always remember:
When Zuckerbook marks something as “partly false”, it also means it’s “mostly true”..
Yup, the “squad” is never, ever defined as “Far left”.
More than that I want to see every last traitor involved in the Russia collusion coup attempt prosecuted, most of all Hillary F. Clinton.
Andrew Ross Sorkin is why I gave up on CNBC years ago. He is an absolute dumb bunny.
It took six “reporters” to pen this screed?
I thought the Times was on strike.
5.56mm
Wow. It took six journotards to write that screed. I thought NYT drones were on strike,
Prosecute Fauci he was clueless and dangerous.
I thought exactly the same. Odd isnt it.
Elon is jabbing from the Middle - it’s just that the Times is so far Left the jabs sound like right-wing hate speech to them.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Stephen Gandel, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat LivniDid each write every eighth word?
He’s going fairly deep into the red pill zone. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/with_replies
Hitting out at the deep state with twitter files, Covidians and wokeness.
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