This seems a little chintzy for the world’s most potent, self-proclaimed, free-speech absolutist:
Sunlight IS the best disinfectant, especially when you are selectively disinfecting things.
I wonder, in Elon’s mind, where the last 3 “Twitter Files” data dumps where Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss published SCORES of internal documents and communications, doxxing dozens of former employees, fit into his new “LEAK THREAT?”
When you own it, leaking information for personal gain in a perception war against the world isn’t called “leaking” if you tell people you’re leaking information ahead of time, according to Mr. Musk. It’s called ” curating a fake reputation by selling out current and former employees labeling internal deliberation as proof of wrong-doing.
2/3 Taibbi tweeted that fed. law enforce. gave Twitter a "general" warning abt. foreign hacks but that the Twitter files showed "no evidence … of any gov. involvement in the laptop story", thus failing to support a conservative claim that the FBI pressured social media (cont')
— Armando Arredondo🕛🧢🌞 (@armando7usa) December 10, 2022
So Elon Musk coordinated a leak attempting to accuse the Biden Admin of pressuring Twitter content moderation.
What he ended up doing is exposing the fact the Trump Admin, who was in office in 2020, actually did this. Biden was a candidate.
Congratulations. You played yourself. pic.twitter.com/DCaR33c4Yb
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) December 3, 2022
Elon’s bad at leaking information and puts himself first in these stories because he’s building his reputation as a right-fighting free, speech absolutist disinformation brick by brick.
He thinks if he gives you the impression that his measuring stick is THE free speech/leak measuring stick, he can outrun whatever is coming for him, and something is coming. Something bad. That’s why Elon is willing to part with half his wealth and light 44 billion on fire: it’s pre-nightmare PR for a coming storm.
Elon doesn’t want employees leaking internal Twitter info because every time an employee does, it completely contradicts whatever PR psy-op he’s running. Leaking takes disinformation bricks out of the foundation of disinformation he’s building. It’s embarrassing, and he blunts whatever daily lie he tells you while trying to develop fake rep capital among the incel crowd.
He doesn’t care if it’s truthful or accurate as long as incels and the supremely confused think he’s the “truth.”
Something BIG is coming for Elon. I don’t know what it is, but it’s dark, and he knows it’s coming.
I wonder what it is?
DB
