Uh oh.
Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
The Wall Street Journal, citing several in-post and former US, European and Russian officials, reported that the conversations between the two men ranged from the personal to the geopolitical and included a request from the Russian leader not to activate his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favour to the Chinese leader and Putin ally, Xi Jinping.
The implications of a secret channel of communication between Musk and Putin are enormous for western security. The Tesla tycoon is a key player in the US space programme and has a high-level security clearance. His company SpaceX launches US national security satellites, his Starlink satellite communications system is critical to the war in Ukraine, and he runs one of the world’s biggest and most influential social media platforms, X, which has provided a vehicle for Russian disinformation campaigns.
Other than that, it’s no big deal.
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Sounds like it’s time for him to lose that.
Sounds like those Starlink looking antennas on Russian drones might be real after all…
A tweet from Elon Musk on X:
Massive numbers flown to swing states and put on the fast track to citizenship.
Voter importation.
It’s a sure way for the Democrat Party to achieve permanent victory.
Diabolically smart.
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No matter that this is a cynical lie on the Goebbels or Putin level, this is what ‘free speech’ looks like now on X. He is also making it more and more difficult on X for those whose political opinions differ from his.
The great replacement theory. The Boer Tucker Carlson.
And there will be no squeaks about this from the habitual defenders of ‘free speech’, those who indulge in self-pitying whining about regulating blatant disinformation. racism and anti-Semitism on the internet, and the fan-boys of Musk.