The new boss of Twitter has released paranoid speech, whether by unlocking the accounts of conspiracy influencers or by promoting their theses himself.
by William Audureau
He was perceived, still a short time ago, like a modern Tony Stark, the brilliant and irreverent entrepreneur who hides behind the armor of Iron Man, in the Marvel universe. Now he is most often compared to the Joker, a great emancipator of sociopaths in the city of Gotham City, in the world of Batman, at DC Comics. Since he bought Twitter on October 27, officially for Defend “the future of civilization” , the boss of Tesla and Spacex has mainly established himself as the Savior of anti -System, conspiracy and radical speeches.
In the name of the defense of an absolute freedom of expression, Elon Musk continued to foot the Trumpists, who consider his arrival as a gift that has fallen from the sky. He raised the suspension of Donald Trump, and appeared alongside Jared Kushner, the former son-in-president, during the World Cup final in Qatar. But Donald Trump is not the only one to take advantage of Twitter’s new policy.
After having authorized the return of many far-right Anglo-Saxon personalities, Elon Musk has reactivated the Twitter accounts of important French conspiracy influencers in mid-December, as the Alsatian entrepreneur and theoretian of the Creuse Moon, Silvano Trotta . “A twitter finally free,” said the interested party immediately. “It is Resurrection Day”, also applauded Eric Chabrière, right-handed arm of Didier Raoult, who had fiercely defended the hydroxychloroquine and the IHU of Marseille on the social network during the COVVI-19 crisis.
explosion of conspiracy tweets
The consequences were not long in coming: while part of the users goes into exile on the social network competing mastodon, conspiracy speeches are experiencing spectacular growth on Twitter, of the hecatombe supposed to the vaccines against the COVVI -19 to the assassination of JFK Junior. Well helped by the destructuring of moderation teams of the platform, decimated since the arrival of Elon Musk, these theories no longer meet a hindrance.
In France, the mystico-trumpist chain of the de-ie, who believed in a miraculous maintenance of Donald Trump in the White House in 2021, welcomed herself to have doubled his audience since mid-November, with 3.5 million tweets visible by other users. “We, we never really left, because we published almost nothing, until the arrival of Elon Musk, justifies the conspiratorial channel on Twitter. We understood that we could come back and, since, We started to actively use our account. “
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