I was transfixed when Elon Musk first took over as Twitter’s CEO weeks ago. It was like watching a massive highway car pileup as folks heard Musk pledge, “No, we’re not dead!”
I was tempted to exit the social media platform but decided to stay. So when the GOP first tweeted its intent to tear apart Hunter Biden, I responded, “How about the $2 billion Kushner got from the Saudis … Are you going to investigate that?” The support was beyond anything I’d experienced from the Twitter-verse.
Hundreds of people have liked and continuously re-tweeted my remark. Some of the comments are humorous: “OMG Now they have Hunter’s toaster, RYE crumbs and all. Investigation starts right after breakfast!” Other tweets were more political: “Raise your hand if you are FAR more interested in whatever caused all those House Reps to ask Trump for a pardon than in the contents of Hunter’s laptop.”
Fight or flight time? Did I really want to be involved in this online warfare or leave? That’s when I received this tweet: “Reminder: they want you to feel defeated. They want you to leave Twitter.” So I stayed.
I watched as Musk tweeted multiple times daily and reinstated Donald Trump after with a survey that former employees called a “bot-o-rama.’ Musk then force-fed extremist tweets to Twitter users ‘ profile feeds or timelines. Here’s a typical response: “This is serious and takes Musk’s interference into people’s feed to a whole new level. This isn’t ‘free speech’ but the opposite. This is 1984 dystopian level manipulation.”