In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight yet.
John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods β even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations based on conspiracy theories invented by random Twitter users.
@randahl @percepticon A platform takeover is never just about speech. Itβs about who gets to subsidize which narratives, and at what scale. Once amplification is cheap, disinformation stops being βliesβ and becomes a logistics problem: routing belief through attention infrastructure. The scarier part is institutional responsiveness, when agencies treat trending as actionable intelligence, the feedback loop closes.
I love that you insist on calling it Twitter.
Randahl Fink
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