Elon Musk has opened another front in what he has called "the Twitter archives", a matter with which he tries to air the arbitrariness, from his point of view, of the moderation rules used in the previous stage of the platform, prior to that he was the owner. First he attacked "censorship" of a report on Hunter Biden weeks before the elections that led his father to victory and now his target is Anthony Fauci, White House scientific director, the face of the fight against covid and true obsession of radical Trumpists.
"My pronouns are process/Fauci," Musk tweeted at midnight Saturday. At 81, Fauci retires this month, after serving as infectious disease chief for seven presidents beginning in 1984, from Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden. That includes Trump, who was aggrieved that Fauci did not support his initiatives based on anything but science and made him the secret weapon against his economic policy successes, thereby ruining his presidency. Not that he made mistakes, no, it was the scientist's fault.
But Fauci was wrong. "I have great respect for the presidency, which put me in a very uncomfortable position, but I had to do it," the medical expert told CNN on Sunday. “I could not stand there and be an accomplice when it is said that hydroxychloroquine (against malaria) works when it is not true, that bleach works. And no. That the virus would disappear by magic. And no, ”he said, referring to the statements that Trump made from the pulpit of the White House.
In the first installment in the alleged defense of freedom of expression, Musk opened the front on the alleged influence of the social network in favor of Biden (the ban on the Hunter computer case lasted 36 hours), the ban on them continuing On the platform, former President Donald Trump (for the sake of freedom of expression, violence and a coup can be incited) and thousands of neo-Nazis and white supremacists (who, once at the helm of the social network, have been door open).
In the second, he points out how "the suspension" of alleged medical experts and celebrities who spoke out during the pandemic against vaccines and confinement using lies and misinformation was orchestrated.
Although Musk qualifies politically as someone "in the middle," he is increasingly advocating and sharing very conservative views, many based on conspiracies. He is increasingly amplifying anti-democratic theories and giving his blessing to Republican candidates.
“Every day he is giving more power to the extremists on the right,” said J.M. Berger, speaking to Insider. This researcher of ultra movements in social networks remarked that the arguments with which Musk tries to give them power "are crap and should be treated as such."
At the time, Musk tweeted that he was in favor of vaccines. In 2021 he wrote: “To be clear, I support vaccines in general and covid specifically. The science is unequivocal." And then he added: “In very rare cases there is an allergic reaction, but it is easily stopped with EpiPen” (allergy medication).
So his attack on the veteran specialist focuses more on confinement, another of the Trojan horses, according to Trumpism, in line with the rejection of masks. "Just one more lockdown my king..." Musk tweeted, with a 'Game of Thrones'-esque image featuring Biden and Fauci.
Extremist and conspiratorial Twitter users had been demanding the new owner, so accommodating to their pleas, to launch a case against covid and expose who had been involved in censorship, that they actually wanted to tackle the falsehoods that were spreading, some dangerous as the consumption of bleach that Trump recommended to kill the virus. It is clear that he did end it: dead the person, dead the little bug.
Musk's anti-Fauci tweet echoed online. There were many who endorsed it, but it also had a boomerang effect. “Don't let Musk fool you, he is currently in favor of lockdowns, but only those that benefit him. He makes his workers sleep at their companies instead of letting them go home,” he read.
The city council of San Francisco, the Californian city where the Twitter headquarters are located, has opened an investigation against him for converting offices into dormitories, since his employees are forced to work marathon days, seven days a week. And at his Tesla factory in Shanghai, he made employees sleep for months on the job to speed up production, according to a few complaints.
