We wrote about how Musk is using X as a propaganda tool to demonize each of the agencies and programs that DOGE targets for cuts, providing air cover for his engineers' incursions — with the truth as collateral damage. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... w/ @drewharwell.com
‘A slightly closer look would have revealed that the contract, signed during…Trump’s first term, was for help defending against cyberattacks—that is, combating deception, not fueling it. And it went to a separate division of the company, not the news agency.’ Elon & Trump are lying to Americans.
If he wants to be Napoleon, fine, we can exile him and his crew for life to a remote Pacific Island like Johnston Atoll.
Napoleon was competent and good at public administration. We’d be lucky if any of them aspired to be him. Bikini Atoll is fine, they can survive on the radioactive crabs.
I bet he did. How dare anyone tell the deceitful things him & Trump are doing!
We can’t tolerate this corruption in horror and do nothing! If you don’t want to be ruled by billionaire kings then resist by joining or supporting orgs in the fight! There’s no time! Find one! ACT like @indivisible.org @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social NOW
Free (gift) read of article for those without WaPo subscription wapo.st/4gJwGID
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Will X Drew dream team
A superb article.
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BLOG: Trump is a modern-day Prince John and Musk his Sheriff of Nottingham. The big question is: where is Robin Hood? www.jandehn.com/post/where-i...
That photo couldn’t be more appropriate!
Musk needs to be deported sooner than later. Self-serving. Greedy. Nothing is ever enough for this slimy reptile.
The demise of our govt is going to hit home during tax season. Who will be there to issue refunds? I went to the NARA site to see if I could get my dad's records and the New Request link doesn't work. We all rely on the govt. Everyone will suffer in ways big and small, including MAGA.
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Demonizing propaganda that he later repeats in a feed to their doge.gov federal website which also broadcasts the lie that "the people" voted for this sabotage. bsky.app/profile/will...
Nice website design. We‘ll redesign it with a picture of his bloated face, tongue sticking out of his mouth frozen in agony. Death on the gallows for Elon (DOGE) „He had it coming“
Site has already been hacked multiple times Already
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Why say ‘misrepresented facts’ when ‘lied’ is much more succinct?
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Get this mfer out of our country…
He is a menace to society.
propaganda it's just blatant dishonesty - the man has not a shred of character
And WaPo facilitated this nightmare.
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Every accusation...
Not sanewashing I trust?
Tell that to the quisling Bezos
Jeff bezos finally waiting up to Elon's competitive threat.
JD Can you say "Haitians are eating cats" in Ohio? "If I have to create stories so that ... media actually pays attention ... that's what I'm going to do"! (9/24). EM "USAID spent $50m on condoms in Gaza" Lies, cat memes, condoms = screaming SQUIRREL creating outrage & unreasonable action is OK
Like USAID, Politico and others before it, Reuters has been cast as a villain in a narrative spun by Musk in which nefarious left-wing schemes lurk behind programs he targets for cuts — and those who stand in the way. Gift link to our story today: wapo.st/4gJwGID
How is every agency the absolute worst? There is never any balance between any good or areas that can be improved. This is blatantly corrupt, and the democrats are a joke.
Check this out. It’s called “Water Resources Department, Government of Bihar”. 👉 @adolf_gov
Any tech bro who can’t distinguish Reuters from Thomson Reuters is dumb af or lying to you.
kill him dead
DOGE chief 🤣 chief of a made up agency 🤣
Took you guys this long to figure that out! Soon that moron decided to just waltz into the treasury and other buildings that may included but not limited to top classified military intelligence agencies and the like, we were all aware of his intentions
Posting on X is not transparency. It is tooting your horn to your followers. I am not a follower. I am a cat.
Musk and company has not even taken the time to find out what each agency does. He really does not care. His goal is destruction of anything that will keep him within the law.
Elon is using the same tool the GOP and Trump have used for decades: projection. Accuse your opponent with what you have done or are going to do. It may have come from a KGB playbook, originally. It does require complete and utter shamelessness.
"Always accuse your enemies of your own sins" -Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany
If only I could read it ....
First comment is a gift link
Actually look at receipts
What? Mush lie to get more influence and wealth? If I'm a victim of identity theft within the next ten years, I'm pointing my finger at that rat bastard, Elon Hitler. And can we all please start calling him Elon Hitler?
I’m going with Adolph Musk
Every accusation is a confession so you KNOW what they're doing behind the curtain...
he did the same thing in the election planting good stories about Trump and suppressing bad ones
Must is a neo facist. The scariest part iy eople dont want he is.
'Democracy'as a weapon. Margaret Atwood warned about this in 2019: 'If you wanted to seize power in the USA and set up a dictatorship .. you might use the name of democracy as an excuse for abolishing liberal democracy.' news.sky.com/story/jd-van... And here's Elon protecting 'democracy'.
Musk's is a very old dictators' playbook, from Stalin to Hitler and 1984: We are protecting DEMOCRACY free speech and the Will of the People; we are fighting the Deep State and the Enemies of the People, who are cheating you. You are being oppressed, and we are your saviours. And still, it works.
Musk's is a very old dictators' playbook, from Stalin to Hitler and 1984: We are protecting DEMOCRACY free speech and the Will of the People; we are fighting the Deep State and the Enemies of the People, who are cheating you. You are being oppressed, and we are your saviours. And still, it works.
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The press wanted chaos to generate stories because Joe Biden was too boring for them to profit from. Now, the administration they were pushing for is targeting journalists. Was it worth it, @apnews.com?
This will go down in history as a moment of high treason
Wish you noticed the bad guys are bad sooner
They still don’t know
Astounding
I believe Muskrat studied Edward Bernays and his many hooded acolytes youtu.be/eJ3RzGoQC4s?...
Oh, is WaPo finally starting to pay attention?
He looks good behind bars.
He’s using it as a propaganda tool against democracies worldwide.
Nice try. Too late. After all, when you help a narcissistic sociopath get into office, this is what you get👇.
they needed to get alibaba tariffed
Musk using X to manufacture outrage while gutting agencies is less governance, more smash-and-grab oligarchy. The con is obvious, but the question remains: will anyone in power actually stop it?
No, government power will not be limited, it is being privatised
I hope the Twitter Xodus accelerates leaving only bots and so few actual users that it will cease to be useful as a propaganda tool.
I closed my account a month ago.
X is nothing more than Elon’s personal Pravda…
AP first, now Reuters. The last major informative, neutral sources.
With full support of users and many propogandists that generate interest in scrolling around on Twitter.
Streams of self-serving nonsense wound around out of context facts. Also, what the heck was he talking about in that press conference? medium.com/@nina.amenta...
