Gil Duran: Very few political reporters have any idea how ideology works. This results in befuddled or superficial coverage that leaves readers confused or uninformed about key issues. Case in point: Elon Musk. @georgelakoff.bsky.social and I wrote this in December 2022: ➡️ www.theframelab.org/twitter-ceo-...

Very few political reporters have any idea how ideology works. This results in befuddled or superficial coverage that leaves readers confused or uninformed about key issues. Case in point: Elon Musk. @georgelakoff.bsky.social and I wrote this in December 2022: ➡️ www.theframelab.org/twitter-ceo-...

Even before Musk acquired Twitter, his right-wing politics had become obvious (to those who understand ideology). Yet two weeks after we summed up Musk's authoritarian ambitions, the New York Times ran this piece, which has not aged well. ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/b...

The entire point of Elon Musk buying Twitter was to make the platform into a booster rocket for extreme right-wing politics and conspiracy theories. In 2024, we'll witness an unprecedented effort to use this platform to elect fascist Trump. (from Dec 2022) www.theframelab.org/algorithm-wa...

Algorithm Warfare: How Elon Musk uses Twitter to control brainswww.theframelab.org Like Trump, Musk has weaponized tweets for the information war

Elon Musk's support for Trump was obvious and predictable. Isn't it clear that he's *emulating* Trump? He spent $44 billion to become the biggest noise on Twitter! And his "strict father" authoritarian politics have deep roots ... he despises empathy! www.theframelab.org/the-deep-roo...

Elon Musk is not alone. He's leading a wider tech movement toward authoritarian politics. Balaji Srinivasan sees him as a leader of the "Gray" tech tribe to create a new politics centered around tech supremacy. www.theframelab.org/elon-musks-x...

Elon Musk's 'X' marks the spot for Nazis, disinformation. Why?www.theframelab.org Why are Silicon Valley titans veering hard into far-right politics?

The growing alignment between key Silicon Valley figures and authoritarian politics is going to be a major political development of the decade, if not the century. Let's try to not keep being "surprised" by it. More to come

Musk’s grandfather was an antisemitic technofascist who moved to S. Africa BECAUSE he thought that it “was destined to lead ‘White Christian Civilization’ in its fight against the ‘International Conspiracy’ of Jewish bankers and the ‘hordes of Coloured people’ they controlled” Sound familiar?

And this is all after Musk was bailed out from bankruptcy by the Obama administration. Cued: "February, 2009, Tesla could no longer make payroll..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F2a...

Big Ideas: Energy and Climate Change with Nobel Laureate Steven Chuwww.youtube.com Steven Chu, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, talks with Ran Abramitzky, professor of economics, about physics, molecular and cellular physiology...

Chu rescued Tesla twice. Cued: youtu.be/-F2albsWV1U?...

Big Ideas: Energy and Climate Change with Nobel Laureate Steven Chuyoutu.be Steven Chu, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, talks with Ran Abramitzky, professor of economics, about physics, molecular and cellular physiology...

#GreenSky 🔌💡

wow.

A criteria for making taxpayer funded loans in a democracy should be that the recipient consents to democracy.

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