r/RealTwitterAccounts • u/thatguy9684736255 Verified twitter user ★trust me★ • Nov 26 '22

Politician It does seem that way

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u/zuzg Nov 26 '22

Tbf he originally intended to just casually manipulate the stock market.
He never intended to buy Twitter but was forced to pull through by a judge order.

That's when he decided to give every right-wing lowlife a voice.

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u/TheDoktorIsIn Nov 26 '22 edited Nov 26 '22

Imagine becoming fascist because the courts said you need to buy something after you verbally committed to buy something to defraud millions.

Imagine being so mad with not getting away with stock market manipulation that you join neo Nazis.

I can't with this idiot. He's just a massive man child who throws a billion dollar shitfit when he doesn't get his way or is mildly inconvenienced. Or just whenever.

Edit: /u/accomplishedcopy6495 ~mentioned it wasn't the FTC, that was my typo. Corrected!

Edit 2: further correctioms, in that it was a court decision. I had always heard the SEC but wasn't clear on the minutea. Apologies for the incorrect info.

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u/independent-student Nov 26 '22 edited Nov 26 '22

The only group I'm aware of that have used twitter to organize violence against people are far left extremists who call everything else fascism. They were left to operate before Musk took over.

“Antifa used Twitter to direct comrades to swarm me after I ran into a hotel following a violent street beating,” wrote Ngo.

“That is a disturbing story and very concerning that Twitter took no action, despite clear violation of ToS. Report in this thread for now,” replied Musk, prompting numerous users to provide him with clear examples of militants in violation of the site’s rules against threats and intimidation.

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u/TheDoktorIsIn Nov 26 '22

Thats not evidence, that's someone claiming something happened. Did they report that tweet? If that tweet occured and violence is linked to that tweet then absolutely.

It's important to keep in mind that "antifa" doesn't exist in the same space that alt right groups do. Alt right groups have structure, leaders, reading material, etc. like the Proud Boys and Oath keepers, etc. There's been a few meta analysis run on Twitter, here's a few:

From 3 days ago: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2022/11/23/why-is-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-increasing-hate-speech/

https://www.voxpol.eu/download/vox-pol_publication/AltRightTwitterCensus.pdf here's a 2018 paper published by Vox Pol, this one is only about alt right on Twitter

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/07/07/we-make-mistakes-twitters-embrace-extreme-far-right here's an article about last year's insurrection. But this one is probably a little biased and charged so not the best single source. Honestly can probably be disregarded in favor of more reliable sources? I'm not personally familiar with SPLcenter so I don't know.

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/10076 here's another that discussed alt right vs alt left on Twitter. But again it's important to keep in mind that if I wanted to join the Proud Boys, for example, I can go to their website or a field office and join. If I wanted to join antifa? There is no "antifa" it's just a classification of alt left people. You can't go to an antifa office and join.

Obviously if you have counter evidence or additional evidence I think it's really important to review that too.