Elon Musk's Machine for Political Violence - emptywheel

Just a week after Elon Musk used Xitter to sow political violence in the UK, Donald Trump returned to Xitter.

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Like 8chan it needs to be closed down. By international law.

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Looks like he's perfecting the craft of calling for riots to effect antidemocratic political change πŸ€”

This election cycle is likely to get wild

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And why aren't i hearing that they want to investigate his role here, because it's obvious
@emptywheel From the local news in Europe I read that today Donald Trump made his first tweet (xitter) since years on Twitter, just before the announced interview Musk / Trump. Is there actually any account which was banned before Musk bought Twitter which has not been un-banned ?
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you mean besides mine, @huntersjames ? Yes, there are zillions of accounts that have been banned from the Twitter and very few have been unbanned.
@emptywheel Could the national defence apparatus shut down, seize, or legislate to control X to protect the United States?