#Indict Elon Musk

[originalleftist]

If I were just like you, I'd have both the ability and will to waste 44 billion dollars buying a social media site to troll fascist scum like you.

[originalleftist]

WARNING: An Elon Musk PAC has created a fake voter registration site targeting voters in swing states. The site does not actually help them register to vote, but does collect their data for the Trump campaign to use in its door-to-door canvasing.

As noted in the article, this exploits a legal loophole re door to door canvasing to allow the PAC to coordinate with the Trump campaign.

Ironically, this might actually hurt Trump in a way, as its aimed at his supporters, and is collecting data from people in key swing states without actually registering them to vote. But it's still likely going to disenfranchise people but leading them to think they've registered when they have not, as well as deceiving them into handing over personal information to Musk and Trump.

Enough. Musk should be immediately indicted for fraud.

[ashadowofburnedoutstardust]

So lemme just "connect the dots" here:

So Russia pays for misinformation using bots created by Chinese tech companies creating fake accounts using user information collected from something like Zoom

Managed to help Trump and the GOP "fake news" their way to an election win

Chris ends up a target because he as well as others with a public platform who have spoken out against Trump, who have also been the victim of the same misinformation tactics in their fandoms to undermine their influence on public platforms, Christopher attempts to help debunk this by creating A Starting Point, which honestly seems to be the only thing still running that actually fact checks before publishing unlike mainstream media

His agency that has links to the GOP financially arrange for him to be linked to a racist Nazi (possibly also a scientologist) through the People Magazines sexiest man alive title and resulting PR

Meanwhile the WGA and SagAftra decide to strike and CAA take a massive hit because of the financial involvement and ends up having to sell a massive stake to Pinault to try and cover their losses and to enable the extension of the strike out until 2024 to try and bankrupt the strikers

Rumour spreads about Elon Musk, the guy that owns one of the public platforms secretly collecting info from Tesla vehicle owners to use as leverage and blackmail against famous people who have been filmed in their own vehicles using the tech installed in their cars

Meanwhile they send in the bigger stars like Clooney in with bad advice about what they can use to negotiate with and intentionally make them look like idiots to sow discord within Sag Aftra

(Get your fucking asses on the god damned picket line where they don't want you to be you fucking morons)

In the meantime the Georgia indictments continues while the GOP stalls electing a speaker to try and disable the US govt from being able to do anything meaningful as yet another distraction while possibly paying off a judge to mess things up for them

At this point yet another distraction breaks out in the form of Israel Vs Gaza being instigated by a terrorist group and no governments seem willing to enable a ceasefire agreement despite the continued loss of innocent civilians on both sides and takes over the main story in the media while the GOP continues to stall the speaker election to prevent the US govt from being able to do any more useful work

Meanwhile no one is looking into who is funding the Hamas, because no offence but I've never seen a terrorist group hold a fucking bake sale so somebody has to be funding them

In the meantime no one is looking at what China is trying to do in regards to Taiwan (yes it's called Taiwan, it's what the people who live there call it, it's why my country has two damn names) who also happened to get fucked over in regards to their tech in other countries with selling communication infrastructure

What the fuck am I supposed to do with this information?

I can't even fix my car right now ✌️

I need a new blender and a rice cooker, they both shat themselves last night

The rice cooker fell on the floor and won't cook anything anymore, and the cuff bit holding the blade in place broke on the blender

I like my small appliances

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[jarviskingston]

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[internettoday]

New episode of Internet Today Daily, this time coming

A seeming flacid end to the Zuck v Musk Saga

Ron Desantis backs down in Disney fight

Local newspaper gets its shit rocked by an overzealous police department, with a conspiracy

Trump gets indicted *again*

[shadowdemon-gd]

Twitter’s not even trying to hide it anymore. Elon Musk is catering to the right. I’m certain this coming up right after Donald Trump has been indicted isn’t a mistake. Elon is part of the MAGA movement. No denying it now

[thelifeelsewhere]

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[originalleftist]

The fact that Muskrat still has government contracts AND A SECURITY CLEARANCE while being more or less openly an agent of the Russian government (sabotaging Starlink, letting Russia use it, constantly platforming the most vile Russian propaganda, pitching a Ukraine "peace plan" which is basically helping Putin and is potentially a violation of the Logan Act by conducting unauthorized diplomacy, and probably more) is obscene.

Hopefully this is a step toward his losing all of them.

musk was under invegested for pac

so I heard, his PAC has been pretending to offer help registering people to vote, but if you say you're from a key swing state it doesn't send you to your states' Sec of State website to get registered, it asks a bunch of demographic follow up questions and then doesn't help you get registered, no doubt valuable data.

but all that is illegal.

he's also in trouble because Twitter's little AI troll, grunk or whatever the fuck its called, has been telling people misinformation about the election, telling people Kamala Harris missed ballot deadlines in a lot of states, she didn't, she will be on ALL 50 state ballots. So a number of Senators sent Musk an angry letter. Now having an AI bot be a liar isn't illegal, but when your life blood is federal contracts its not great to have Senators pissed at you.

[tomorrowusa]

Elon Musk is making life easy for Putin’s trolls.

Hundreds of Russian and Chinese state propaganda accounts are thriving on Twitter after Elon Musk wiped out the team that fought these networks, the BBC has found.

The unit worked to combat "information operations", coordinated campaigns by countries such as Russia, China, and Iran, made to influence public opinion and disrupt democracy.

But experts and former employees say the majority of these specialists resigned or were laid off, leaving the platform vulnerable to foreign manipulation. The BBC has spoken to several of them. They asked for anonymity, citing non-disclosure agreements and threats they received online.

"The whole human layer has been wiped out. All Twitter has left are automated detections systems," a former senior employee said.

These “non-disclosure agreements“ are an attempt to circumvent accountability. Some of these former employees should be subpoenaed to testify at a Senate committee – that would provide them with the legal ability to disregard Musk’s non-disclosure agreements during testimony.

The troll farm operated by Putin crony Yevgeny Prigozhin actively worked to assist Donald Trump in 2016. With Russia mired in Ukraine, manipulating Western opinion is a cheap way for the Putin dictatorship to undermine Western support for Ukraine. 

Organised groups of people posting coordinated messages are called 'troll farms.' The term was first used by Russian reporters who exposed one of roughly 300 paid employees run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group.

Since then, troll farms influencing elections and public opinion have been uncovered in many countries, from Poland and Turkey to Brazil and Mexico. They have also been used as a propaganda tool in ethnic conflicts and wars.

Now, a new group of Russian trolls is active on Twitter.

It supports Putin's war in Ukraine, ridicules Kyiv and the West, and attacks independent Russian-language publications, including the BBC Russian Service. Many of these trolls' accounts have been suspended, but dozens are still active.

You might say that Musk is manure for the troll farms.

Lately Russia and China have also been using deceptive social media accounts to foment discord in the US over Trump’s recent indictment. The PBS NewsHour had a report on this a couple of days ago.

In general we need to quit relying on social media for news if we don’t want to get hoodwinked.

I have apps on my phone for the BBC, DW, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBC, The Guardian, CNN, ABC (Australia)*, and about half a dozen other legit news organizations. I have notifications for them turned on. It’s not a perfect system but the chances of getting misinformation this way are small.

Social media has long been subject to manipulation. With Musk having eviscerated moderation at Twitter, that platform is more problematic than ever. I have not logged on at Twitter for years, but I maintain a bookmarked list of legit accounts which I check with varying degrees of regularity.

It’s time for serious users to leave Twitter. It continues to deteriorate under Musk. NPR announced this week that it is quitting Twitter. A viable alternative to Twitter, not vulnerable to a takeover by a rightwing oligarch, needs to be developed ASAP.

_________________________ * Just want to say that ABC News in Australia is an excellent news source. It goes way beyond Australian news. It punches way above its weight for the size (26.4 million) of the country. FYI: I’m not Australian; never been closer to the country than Southern Illinois. Look for their app at your app store. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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[jarviskingston]

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[originalleftist]

Yes.

And while we're at it, let's talk about how this piece of shit still has a security clearance and government contracts after its PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE that he deliberately and treacherously sabotaged Ukraine's communications, costing Ukrainian lives.

Letting this fucker control crucial national infrastructure-especially defense infrastructure-is like if the Jedi found out about Order 66 and just did nothing until it was activated.

[internettoday]

New episode of Tech Newsday! This week covering:

The latest, all new trump indictment

China limits the screentime of Chinese youth

Elon gives an option to hide the blue checkmark of shame

Tesla wrapped up in scandal

Space X does a pollution

[stupittmoran]

Top 10 headlines the media didn't tell you this week, Repost & FoIIow for more.

DeSantis vs Newsom debate turns into a sh*tshow as the Florida governor calls out San Francisco's human feces problem.

Elon Musk interview goes viral, causing mass cancelations of Disney Plus and other services.

Texas is suing Pfizer for misrepresenting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and conspiring to censor the public.

KC Chief's fans plan to attend next game with black and red face paint after the media accused a child fan of racism.

Former official has been indicted on three grand jury charges for altering 2020 election results.

Reports of "White Lung" pneumonia affecting mostly children in China has been found in Massachusetts & Ohio.

BLM Leader endorses Trump for President in 2024, accuses democrats of racist policies.

CTIL files reveal how the government conspired to censor citizens and alter the 2020 election.

Joe Rogan says anyone who tells him to 'trust the experts' can suck his d*ck, Covid taught him that the so-called experts are bought and paid for.

James O'Keefe releases bombshell undercover report exposing China's operation of a biolab in California.

How many more Chinese biolabs are there in the United States?

BONUS: Speaker Johnson ramps up Biden impeachment, stating Biden has lied at least 16 times about his involvement in his family's business schemes.

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