Elon Musk Is Turning Twitter Into a Haven for Nazis

[RKP5637]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zm9q/elon-musk-twitter-nazis-white-supremacy

Musk has welcomed neo-Nazis back onto the platform, engaged with them on his timeline, and posted multiple tweets that appeal directly to them.

Twitter has a problem with white supremacist and neo-Nazi content proliferating on the platform—and Elon Musk is making that problem worse.

In recent days, the platform’s new CEO has reactivated the accounts of known neo-Nazis; shared a picture of a white supremacist who said he’d like Trump to be more like Hitler; failed to prevent users from posting videos of the Christchurch massacre; tweeted a popular alt-right meme; used a known antisemitic trope; and, inadvertently or not, shared a dogwhistle that white supremacists interpreted as praise for Hitler.

Musk’s apparent embrace of the white supremacist community has already led to a rise in hate speech on the platform, and it’s about to get even darker. In far-right forums, extremists of all stripes are salivating at the prospect of being able to share their hateful ideologies on a platform with much greater reach when Musk reinstates accounts that were banned for spreading hate speech.

“As soon as he took over Twitter, we saw extremists trying to exploit the platform, we’ve seen hate of all kinds increase, so these messages that he’s sending have to be understood in the context of what is happening to that platform,” Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, told VICE News. “As it’s becoming a hellscape for antisemitism and racism and bigotry, it just so happens that he is putting out the type of language that is appreciated by those who are doing that.”

Musk’s pattern of normalizing far-right content stretches back to well before his takeover of Twitter. Last February, Musk tweeted a meme that compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Hitler. The tweet, which he deleted within 12 hours of being posted, showed support for the truckers who were protesting vaccine mandates.

[Trenzalore]

1. It will be de-platformed from Apple and Google within a month

He can try to make a phone for Nazis than.

[cilla4progress]

2. I hope

you are right!

[hlthe2b]

3. Sooner, I hope.

[Trenzalore]

4. I don't know if there is anyone that can reason with him

The calling other CEOs to berate them is probably something a trusted consigliore would tell you to avoid doing. I think he fires anyone that tries to give him advice contrary to what he wants to do.

[RKP5637]

7. ... much as Trump liked to fire those that crossed him. These characters are cut from a soiled

piece of cloth.

[underpants]

5. posting videos of the Christchurch massacre; ???

Gawd. 🤮

[RKP5637]

6. I hope this guy doesn't get some type of free pass because he has so much money.

I hope the FBI/DHS are watching him.

[vercetti2021]

8. So another 4chan bascially

Within a year. Twitter will be dead and a new place will take its place. Its just a matter of which platform will be the one. Musk is a total fucking moron.

[RKP5637]

10. Musk is really showing his true colors now. n/t

[vercetti2021]

11. Yep

He sped run how to crash and kill his own brand within a month. Truly a dogshit brain dead loon

[Johonny]

9. I'm already out of there

[Initech]

12. When you play with Nazis and white supremacists, you play with fire.

Elon might as well burn the building down at this point.