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EPISODE · Jun 16, 2025 · 22 MIN

Should the left take on Elon's Twitter?

from The Last Billionaires

X in 2025 is a machine of fascism, an undeniable Nazi bar filled with people who don't know the rule about what to do when a Nazi comes into a bar. Yet its influence has never been greater.  It's Elon Musk's megaphone and MAGA's primary digital outreach vector, especially when it comes to spinning lies in real time, such as they are trying to do in attempting to brand the Donald Trump-loving murderer in Minnesota as a Marxist.  emptywheel's Marcy Wheeler explains how the site became the machine for fascism, why she still uses it, and some promising angles of attack.  Follow Marcy emptywheel https://www.emptywheel.net/about/support/  X  https://x.com/emptywheel/  Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social  Read the original Machine for Fascism post: https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/01/elon-musks-machine-for-fascism-a-one-stop-shop-for-disinformation-and-violence/ 

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