Lauren Jauregui says there's method to Local Man's madness

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Former Fifth Harmony Member Lauren Jauregui Says Elon Musk Is "Destroying Twitter Ahead Of Elections" https://t.co/uX0xSSzbu9 pic.twitter.com/XG4DiJvAO2
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 2, 2023
- The former Fifth Harmony member feels that it’s not a “coincidence” that the Tesla founder is implementing these changes as the U.S. prepares for

Comments

[neev]

God I know it sounds conspiratorial but I do think it's intentional. It is true that fascists love twitter too BUT they also have arguably more reach and less oversight on YouTube and tiktok.

There is also the matter of him potentially tanking twitter deliberately to avoid debts associated with it.

Lots of reasons to believe this is intentional - keeping it alive would have only meant doing nothing. Maybe relaxing a few policies to allow for "free speech".

IDK - I go back and forth. I think it's dangerous to assume someone with as much money and power as Elon Musk is stupid 100% of the time. But then again being rich gives you brain worms.... it's hard to say

[aristobrit]

It makes total sense because there's no better rapid response to bullshit GOP propaganda than using Twitter. Makes it much harder for them to lie and get away with it. Every one of Trump's 30,000 lies was called out in real time. Of course Musk wants to derail that before the next election.

And one of the first things Musk did was restore all the banned GOP accounts that had been suspended for violating terms of service. That's another reason Twitter is such shit right now, it's full of all those banned accounts.

[neev]

Plus all the places internationally where twitter has been THE way people were getting real time updates on human rights abuses, protests, etc. Like...there's a lot of really important events that we've been privy to largely because of twitter

[howlin_wolf_66]

... but Trump also WON using Twitter? It always goes both ways.

[tigermilk]

I have a stupid question because it’s been hot and I’m not sleeping well but if he wanted to purposefully take down Twitter wouldn’t he just take it down? He owns it. Couldn’t he just be like aaaand it gone 👏

[sister]

this isn't a stupid question. you're right, he could just shut it down if he really wanted to and could probably do it in leaner ways then he supposedly is right now (i.e. less equity lost and less clout lost in the process). so, if that's the case, then what IS the purpose of what he is doing right now? i would consider this process deregulation of content. whether or not it links directly to the election is another question, but he's certainly made the platform barely functioning in ways that actually make the process of deregulation really quick. but there is always the likeliness that he just can't run a dev shop, he fired everyone who had control of the system and some of his change requests have broken fundamental parts of the system and there's no one to fix it. could be both things happening at the same time

[tigermilk]

Thanks for this response, my sleep has been super fucked up the last few days and I was just having a hard time wrapping my head around it.

[5368f65]

idk anything about this specifically, but it did remind me of the authoritarian leader techniques i see in easter europe. for these authoritarian leaders it's better (for the dictator/those in power) to slowly destroy something, bit by bit. with the right-wing mindset slowly creeping up instead of making changes from one day to the other. most people don't give a damn about the slow nazification, the dictator only risks visible pushback if they change something fast

[celja]

Well she is into conspiracies...

[damaliaraya]

I…don’t completely disagree??

I don’t know how to feel about that.

[slaughtermatic]

nah, im not saying hes not evil but this is way too much credit given to a complete idiot. its flattering to him.