Elon Musk has never lived up to his promises of free speech after buying Twitter and rebranding it as X. In contrast, hate speech rules are still enforced and much of the platform exists to reinforce his ego. Towards the end of 2024, Elon Musk countered his MAGA allies on the issue of immigration whereby he wanted to import foreign labor to take otherwise middle class American jobs at lower wages. Elon and the America First movement were tenuous allies in order to win an election.
But this took a more sinister turn as Elon Musk after getting dragged on his own platform has seemingly retaliated against those who oppose mass immigration banning prominent right-wing accounts or removing their paid-for premium status even if temporarily. Elon Musk has announced a social credit system where the algorithm will suppress accounts with higher block-follow ratios from premium accounts. Moreover, Elon Musk announced an algorithm change to promote positivity. Between forcing positivity and support for H-1B visas, Elon Musk appears to be remaking LinkedIn.
Though the current pay-to-win model is quite effective, much more so than the previous regime, for Evangelical Dark Web and likeminded Christians, Musk appears poised to turn his platform into a normie slop spam tunnel where he and his sycophants benefit most.
As Andrew Torba notes:
It’s an interesting coincidence that shortly after Blackrock invested $6 billion into xAI, this platform is suddenly being transformed into a social credit-style system where users are ranked based on vague and subjective criteria like “positivity.”
At the same time, Grok is being aggressively promoted and displayed prominently on every post. Given these developments, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a Grok “fact-checking” feature introduced in the near future as well.
Elon Musk’s new censorship apparatus is taking the form of AI omnipresence and overreliance on the platform. Torba is the founder of Gab, an actual free speech platform and is a Christian as well. In contrast with X, Torba notes:
One of the great things about Gab is the signal to noise ratio. There’s less people than X, sure, but that also allows your posts to actually be seen instead of flooded out in a sea of “influencers” and viral slop bait. Our feed is also designed as a level playing field so you can have 0 total followers, post high quality content in Gab groups, and have a viral post with a bunch of engagement. This is freedom of speech AND freedom of reach in action.
Indeed, a lot of alt social media sites were spam tunnels like Parler. Others have no users like MeWe. Gab has users and reach. Despite its size, it’s great., and is probably the most effective platform for sharing our articles. It truly does have the means to get a message out without being a sycophant to the founder or paying to win.
Competition is good and prevents one side from becoming conceited among other faults. Gab was there providing a free speech haven during the Big Tech censorship of 2020 and beyond. And even with Musk taking over Twitter and dismantling the old regime, Gab serves a purpose of being a competitive safeguard.
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Elon Musk is a controlled-opposition fake “conservative.”
Musk’s Twitter/X is heavily staffed by “israeli” intelligence operatives.
The (((establishment))) is afraid that many grassroots conservatives are flocking to Gab, so (((they))) got Elon Musk to pretend to turn Twitter into a so-called “free speech platform”, with the goal of diverting conservatives and Christians from using the REAL free-speech platform: Gab.
Elon Musk is, and has always been, a self-serving globalist who only cares about enriching himself.
And I still remember how he wore that super-hero suit with a demonic image on his chest. Musk is an antichrist.
Musk is also very creepy. But not quite as creepy as Doug Wilson and Mike Johnson, whose photos are repulsive to even look at.