A year after the world’s richest man acquired the social media platform, a game plan published by a fired Trump White House staffer provides a clue.

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    They just have the same boss, Putin.

    The article then expressed sympathy for the Russian-government-controlled news outlets Russia Today and Sputnik, saying they had been unfairly “canceled” after Russia invaded Ukraine. Musk ended the use of “state-sponsored media” labels on Twitter this year, dropping it from the accounts of Russia Today, Sputnik and many other state-owned organizations. The change reportedly prompted RT editor Margarita Simonyan to send Musk a note of appreciation.

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      So, he ran PBS and NPR off of Twitter with the “state-sponsored media” label earlier this year (to great public outrage), and he also removed the same label from the Russian propaganda rag Russia Today?

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          Elon Musk grew up as a rich white boy in full-apartheid South Africa and has never had to confront or change his views. He’s always been this way, he just can’t be bothered to try to mitigate the damage any more.

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            There has to be a connection between that, and all the n-words, kkk, and nazi shit happening in his factories too.

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    “Free speech online is what enabled the Trump revolution in 2016,” the anonymous author wrote. “If the Internet had been as free in 2020 as it was four years before, Trump would have cruised to reelection.”

    Yeah, freedom of speech that we have in America, that Russians took advantage of to trick dumb assholes to vote for a fascist.

    And yes, if so many people didn’t smarten the fuck up the second time Trump would have cruised to re-election, and Russia would have declared another victory over the United States, and this treasonous fuck would have celebrated.

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      Yes but also, I wanted to bring the concept of repeating the same lies. It drowns the truth and when you repeate the same lie, people start tobelieve it. Idk, just read like that when Putin took over Crimea. I don’t remember everything but it was basically repeating the lies.

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    Totally bizarre article that I had to keep checking I was on NBC News. A mystery text message told Elon to do a bunch of shitty things that he basically did… and this message appeared in a court case in Delaware. Weird.