Tuesday, November 05, 2024

X Is a White-Supremacist Site

Charlie Warzel: X has always had a Nazi problem. But something is different today. Heaps of unfiltered posts that plainly celebrate racism, anti-Semitism, and outright Nazism are easily accessible and possibly even promoted by the site's algorithms. All the while, Elon Musk - a far-right activist and the site's owner, who is campaigning for and giving away millions to help elect Donald Trump - amplifies horrendous conspiracy theories about voter fraud, migrants run amok, and the idea that Jewish people hate white people.

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It takes little effort to find neo-Nazi accounts that have built up substantial audiences on X. "Thank you all for 7K," one white-nationalist meme account posted on October 17, complete with a heil-Hitler emoji reference. One week later, the account, which mostly posts old clips of Hitler speeches and content about how "Hitler was right," celebrated 14,000 followers. One post, a black-and-white video of Nazis goose-stepping, has more than 187,000 views. Another racist and anti-Semitic video about Jewish women and Black men - clearly AI-generated - has more than 306,000 views. It was also posted in late October.

Many who remain on the platform have noticed X decaying even more than usual in recent months. "I've seen SO many seemingly unironic posts like this on Twitter recently this is getting insane," one X user posted in response to a meme that the far-right influencer Stew Peters recently shared. It showed an image of Adolf Hitler holding a telephone with overlaid text reading, "Hello ... 2024? Are you guys starting to get it yet?" Peters appended the commentary, "Yes. We've noticed." The idea is simply that Hitler was right, and X users ate it up: As of this writing, the post has received about 67,000 likes, 10,000 reposts, and 11.4 million views.

Musk buying Twitter and allowing unfettered hate speech to flourish wasn't a matter of fate. It was a matter of him following orders from Putin after he allowed Ukraine to use Starlink which led to the deaths and casualties of untold thousands of Russians.

It's hard to believe that few are seeing the clear lines indicating that Musk's turn into a Trump sycophant, funneling his campaign and PACs over $100 million only happened after Musk and Putin spoke for the first time in 2022 and reportedly continue to communicate on a regular basis.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-11-05 03:44 PM

Yet, the left wingnuts on the Retort are proud members of X and litter this site with Tweets from dingbats they follow. Teach Musk a lesson, delete your X account NOW.

#2 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-11-05 04:54 PM

You're a ------. go back to the nooner.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-05 05:12 PM

Musk is a loon.

Floribama Skank is a demented skag.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-11-05 05:14 PM

drudge.com
MUSK. MUSK. MUSK.

#5 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-11-05 05:59 PM

drudge.com
MUSK. MUSK. MUSK.

#6 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-11-05 06:00 PM

Then why do sites like the Retort (see link above) still treat it like a legitimate source?

#7 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-11-05 06:54 PM

Right now, Musk is sitting next to Trump on a couch at Mar a Lardo, X-ing out and reposting the same neo-Nazi trash, racist lies, and women bashing he has been doing for months.

- source PBS news

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-05 07:11 PM

#8 And here you are. Plus, Gal, who is quoting X on the Decision Time thread. Maybe you have the answer for #7? Weird.

#9 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-11-05 08:49 PM

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