God, this angle hadn’t even occurred to me. It literally will be state media if Musk gets an official role. - ThreadSky

paleofuture.bsky.social • 110 days ago

God, this angle hadn’t even occurred to me. It literally will be state media if Musk gets an official role.

Reposted from macrodata refiner

Twitter is now state media

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patrick-ohlson.ms-dot.net•110 days ago

RuUS

lebaron13.bsky.social•110 days ago

and that's why one should leave

jellesimons.bsky.social•110 days ago

victoryrenfrew.bsky.social•110 days ago

1000%

I thought of that when Musk wanted to buy Twitter.

I said to myself, " Self, this isn't going to end well. "

Since 2019, we have been seeing fascism rising quickly.
Unfortunately, C19 happened, and it drove people to FB and other sites that fvked with their minds.

mvocc.bsky.social•110 days ago

Oh shit, I never thought of that!

kathyswords.bsky.social•110 days ago

Oh it's a real angle

g.litch.art•110 days ago

fascist state media, at that

mmister.com•110 days ago

It will, de facto. But does anybody know if it will have legal connotations as well?

katiecannon.bsky.social•110 days ago

Even if he doesn’t

Political philosopher, Sheldon Wolin: Inverted Totalitarianism

arkenor.bsky.social•110 days ago

Without any of the protections that somewhere like the BBC has.

dailygrail.com•110 days ago

I mean, they already use it as their HR Slack channel... 😳

https://bsky.app/profile/dailygrail.bsky.social/post/3lapdl6q6ss26

greggies.bsky.social•110 days ago

What if they start requiring Gov employees to have an X account for official communications, like a fascist version of Google Plus accounts. It would boost Elon's numbers and provide metrics, (and DM monitoring) to intel operations.
I hate this surveillance stuff.

pt109.bsky.social•110 days ago

Yep. And if that happens, journalists (and their employers) must make a choice. https://bsky.app/profile/pt109.bsky.social/post/3lapdjznk5s2c

islandkinehawaii.bsky.social•110 days ago

https://youtu.be/-m5cmNt5x9U?si=HpKzqMMfbRuvbyYj

stormspark.bsky.social•110 days ago

Other countries need to get on the ball and block twitter from being accessed within their borders.

misterfungi.bsky.social•110 days ago

Sen. Elon Musk (R - Florida)

numb.comfortab.ly•110 days ago

Pretty sure he aims for presidency.

buckyhinault.bsky.social•110 days ago

He wasn’t born in….never mind, it doesn’t matter.

adamjschmidt.bsky.social•110 days ago

Trump whisperer's the best he's going to get absent a constitutional amendment. Also, I see no evidence he has any desire for an official role in the US government. He's successfully playing oligarch.

troyliss.bsky.social•110 days ago

Why be the president when you can just buy the office without having to beg for votes? He doesn’t want to be a president—he wants to be the guy who all the presidents suck up to.

misterfungi.bsky.social•110 days ago

well until they change that pesky constitution he’ll have to settle for Marco’s old office

numb.comfortab.ly•110 days ago

At this point the Constitution isn't so much the law of the land, and more like loose guidelines.

badtakeenjoyer.bsky.social•110 days ago

Can't run

patentlysue.bsky.social•109 days ago

X? Fucking Fox too esp when the networks get bulldozed

stitchingtwitcher.bsky.social•110 days ago

They’ll just be talking to themselves, though 🤣

ernie.tedium.co•110 days ago

I think all of us have had to give a shit about Twitter when we didn't want to because of the incoming president.

I honestly refuse to let it happen again

thisisjoylps.bsky.social•110 days ago

Doomsday

bsbeamer.bsky.social•110 days ago

Can’t wait for NWS to have exclusive weather reports that you need to pay X to access.

toofmullets.bsky.social•110 days ago

I keep thinking about how he labeled NPR as state media

islandofreil.bsky.social•110 days ago

"Every accusation, a confession."

paleofuture.bsky.social•110 days ago

And the texts that were released in a lawsuit where he said he liked Russia’s RT. Dark times ahead.

stormspark.bsky.social•110 days ago

Just another reminder that asylum is a thing. Other countries are going to get 150-200 million American refugees over the next couple of years.

c20d.us•110 days ago

Just wait until Musk buys out Trump’s shares of Truth Social. Can’t have that competition.

catahula.bsky.social•110 days ago

But what about Dear Leader’s Truth Social ?

troyliss.bsky.social•110 days ago

That’s just there so people can juice the stock and Trump can sell.

kdmz.bsky.social•110 days ago

Something completely alien which never has existed in the United States.

sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social•110 days ago

Just gonna leave this here.
https://bsky.app/profile/justinberkowitz.bsky.social/post/3lapowqzelc2l/

gingerlraine.bsky.social•110 days ago

Of all the things that should have sunk his campaign, the one I don't see people talking about is how he bragged during the debate with Harris about how much Orban loves him.

hollygirl2008.bsky.social•110 days ago

The right wing Russian media already is state media. Who do you think a fourth of the country listened to before they voted

aabsurdity.bsky.social•110 days ago

Oh, no. It won't be state media. It will be the media of The Party.
Want to submit to the government? Submit to The Party via its media apparatus.
Want to be heard? Sorry, citizen, this is merely The Party's tool. The government can't hear you.
That's part of the fascist method.

yallrcrazy.bsky.social•109 days ago

He bought himself an oligarchy and a state media.

jennvg.bsky.social•110 days ago

CyberPravda

edubsya.bsky.social•110 days ago

Where does Truth Social fit in though? It seems like a crossed swords situation.

galetstrong.bsky.social•109 days ago

Trump is going to tire of Elon and dump him soon enough. He can't tolerate any competition for attention.

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