Elon Musk used Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi to destabilize America

[Celerity]

Musk is setting the stage for disinformation to wreck the 2024 election

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/elon-musk-used-bari-weiss-and-matt

https://archive.ph/IQUB9



It’s been a week and a half since former journalist Matt Taibbi dropped the first #TwitterFiles dump and it has continued to be one of the worst manufactured outrages I’ve ever seen. It’s not quite “Obama’s Tan Suit,” but it’s not far off, either. It’s the equivalent of walking into someone’s home, pointing at the couch and screaming that they have a couch. On the one hand, it’s been a lot of fun watching #TwitterFiles fizzle, particularly the part where Glenn Greenwald has been drowning in tears of frustration as real media almost completely ignores the entire project. Poor Glenn, he really wanted the Hunter Biden story to catch on this time after his abject failure in 2020 to get Trump reelected.

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On the other hand, getting the press to bite would have been a happy bonus but it was never the goal. The real point of this exercise in propaganda has always been to justify unleashing disinformation and to provide grist for the coming Republican sham investigations. In that, #TwitterFiles is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Tempest in a tiny, damp, shredded teabag

I imagine almost no one who is not on Twitter or trapped inside the right-wing media bubble has any idea what #TwitterFiles is about. Ben has an excellent primer on the first dump here. Just as an aside, “dump” is the official Banter phrase for each #TwitterFiles release because each one is a bigger pile of horseshit than the last. We’re going to do a quick recap so you’re up to speed:

#TwitterFiles 12/2 - The original dump. Former journalist Matt Taibbi went first with a much-hyped shocking inside look at how Twitter censored The Greatest Scandal Of The 21st Century™, i.e. Hunter Biden’s dick pics, errrrr… “laptop”. Hilariously, Taibbi stated unequivocally that no government coercion of any kind took place while still claiming the whole thing was an assault on the Fist Amendment. MAGAland momentarily flew into a pearl-clutching frenzy. The left started laughing and hasn’t stopped since. As of this writing, #TF1 has been retweeted 132,100 times. That’s going to be important shortly.

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[bullimiami]

1. Holy crap greenwald is a bullshitter.

Every day there is some rw troll manufacturing crap that’s instantly parroted by 100 others trying to create outrage. Then the shit get mentioned in ms media. And on it goes…

When ms media outlet covers a story … well at least there’s a chance it represents some real event.

[msongs]

2. gossip nt

[womanofthehills]

3. Actually, there are many disturbing emails being released

It’s not black & white. The Hunter part is minor.