“Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression and algorithmically maximizes its distribution for profit, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division. Its participants are a very tiny, skewed slice of humanity that has American journalism in a choke hold.”
Jill Lepore clear-eyed about Musk and (his cozy biographer).
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review
@58fbd252 Big J journalists are narcissists so it should surprise no one they hang out at the Nazi bar where they can hold their nose up at everyone while also satiating their need for constant attention.
@58fbd252 Journalism in in Musk's choke hold because journalism CHOOSES to be in his choke hold.
It's just pathetic -- and frightening -- to watch.
@58fbd252 I didn’t know about his family background—the mother was simply presented as a model of aging womanhood. She writes a memoir and never once mentions South Africa’s apartheid? And Walter Isaacson, in his account of Elon Musk’s childhood, barely mentions apartheid either? So the family has a propaganda machine built around itself.
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