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Lucy's avatar

Not surprising, following Musk’s transparent effort to generate talking points aimed at right wing extremists, I noticed a familiar escalation of the same old coup narrative on Twitter, oftentimes cropping up in reply tweets. “Military tribunals,” “the military is the only way,” “PEAD,” references to the EO’s, Devolution, etc.

And also not surprising, after Musk tweeted about Brazil’s election I noticed posts promoting a military coup in Brazil claiming Musk had proven election fraud. The online propaganda targeting extremists in Brazil is similar to the propaganda aimed at American extremists.

Authoritarians are, of course, sharing the same playbook and influence strategies.

Musk, Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, and others in their network will continue their escalation. After spending billions of dollars and probably years in their efforts, they are not going to give up anytime soon.

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Paulina's avatar

We need to come up with our own code to water all that 88 stupidity down... [wishful thinking]

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