Analysis: Elon Musk sees himself as a moderate. His tweets have convinced followers otherwise.
Yet he’s also a fierce and wildly successful capitalist who disdains unions, political correctness and government intervention — at least, when he’s not profiting from it. In recent years, his companies have come under fire for their labor practices, including allegations of a racist and misogynist culture.
A recent MIT and Yale-led study of politically engaged U.S. Twitter users in both parties found that 36 percent of the As Musk’s bid for Twitter has advanced, his tweets have displayed an increasingly enthusiastic embrace of the right’s expectations for a more laissez-faire regime — and an increasingly open disdain for both the left and Twitter’s existing leadership.Repeatedly in recent days, Musk has criticized or agreed with criticism of individual Twitter employees, including posting a meme
Yet those on the right who see Twitter’s current policies as unfair, or even as part of a liberal conspiracy to suppress their voices, interpreted Musk’s criticisms quite differently. To them, Musk was speaking truth to power by pointing out the misdeeds of Twitter’s behind-the-scenes “censors,” an approach that echoed Trump’s pledges to “drain the swamp” by uprooting corruption in the government.
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