Elon Musk Puts His Conspiratorial Thinking On Display For The World To See

Elon Musk is showing the world how extreme he has become.

The billionaire, one of the most influential people on the planet, spent another weekend swimming in the right-wing fever swamps of X, a terrible habit revealed when his interview with Don Lemon was released Monday morning.

Elon Musk Puts His Conspiratorial Thinking On Display For The World To See

In the heated interview, Elon equated moderating dangerous and appalling hate speech to “censorship,” chastised the press for legitimate reporting, attacked DEI programs without providing evidence, mocked advertisers who abandoned the X platform last year, and once again endorsed the racist Great Replacement theory, among other things.

Some of Musk’s statements may have seemed odd or even foreign to those unfamiliar with the complexities of right-wing media. But in the right-wing fever swamps, where Musk has been entrenched, these are the problems that fire the masses.

Musk’s comments on the premiere episode of Lemon’s new online show added to an unhinged 72-hour posting spree on X, in which the erratic businessman raged against the “woke mind virus” and said its “goal” is “the destruction of America,” agreed with a user who wrote “Fake News is the Enemy of the People,” said the press is “basically the [Joe] Biden cheering squad,” accused the news media of “lying” about Donald Trump’s “blood bath” comments, called NPR a “nice version of

At this point, labelling Elon a right-wing shitposter is no longer controversial. It is simply accurate. His heinous behaviour is alarming because of the fact that Musk has great power, spreading a long shadow across several industries and conducting billions of dollars in the national security business with the US government.

Elon Musk Puts His Conspiratorial Thinking On Display For The World To See

Elon controls one of the world’s most important communication venues alone through his ownership of X, spewing poisonous vitriol into the public conversation at a rate faster than his SpaceX rockets can reach orbit.

Indeed, as Twitter users are well aware, Musk’s postings frequently appear at the top of the home feed. According to Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton, engineers had to create “a system designed to ensure” their posts performed effectively on their owned platform.

To make matters worse, Elon appears to be becoming increasingly intolerant of opposing perspectives. While promoting right-wing extremism, he also works to undermine trust in respectable news sources.

Previously, Musk supported the idea of having a media figure like Lemon on the X platform. Not so much anymore.

Musk attacked the former CNN anchor in a series of tweets on Monday, calling him a “stupid asshole” and “just a bad guy, plain and simple.”

“He’s not used to having to answer to anyone,” Lemon said in a Q&A with People’s Jason Sheeler. “Especially someone like me who doesn’t share his worldview, who doesn’t look like him.”

Elon Musk Puts His Conspiratorial Thinking On Display For The World To See

In effect, Musk has become self-radicalized on the very website that he was forced to buy for $44 billion, plunging deeper into the platform’s darkest and most unsavoury corners, which has served only to reinforce his worldview with an echo chamber of conspiracy theorists and ego-stoking sycophants who regularly fawn at his every move, no matter how outrageous or preposterously false.

An algorithm served up all of this and was designed to regurgitate it back to him. Unfortunately for the rest of the planet, Musk is hellbent on dragging everyone else down with him.

SOURCE – (CNN)