Twitter and America’s Quest for Truth

THIS SPECIAL TWITTER POST REPLACES THE ONE SCHEDULED FOR TODAY ABOUT THE SPENDING CRISIS, WHICH NOW WILL BE PUBLISHED NEXT WEEK.

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has progressives caterwauling. They already control or dominate the media, entertainment, corporations, the military, sports, fact-checkers, education, science, criminal justice, immigration, universities and even religion. Among social media they effectively dominate or control Facebook, Snap, Instagram, YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Reddit, Tik Tok, Messenger and WhatsApp.

Why are liberals so apoplectic over Musk’s ownership of Twitter when they control over 90% of social media platforms as well as all the institutions listed in the previous paragraph? The answer in one word is: truth! The left distrusts and fears three things (1) states; (2) the people and, above all else, (3) truth. They don’t trust states and seek to federalize everything. They are terrified of Americans in flyover land, like those attending school board meetings. But their greatest hysteria is reserved for truth.

Progressives’ worst fear is that Twitter will rupture their dike of lies, obfuscation and maskirovka and that truth, in all its glory, will destroy the dike and flood into America, including, inter alia, the truth about Hillary Clinton’s role in the Russia collusion hoax and Hunter Biden’s laptop expose of the extensive corruption of the Biden family.

Big social media companies have morphed into quasi government entities deputized to control speech in ways the state cannot do directly, such as censorship, propaganda and disinformation. They have become arms of the state and enemies of the people. Elon Musk’s control of Twitter quashes their ability to control dissent and hence elections.

The left’s attacks on Twitter will be vicious, never ending and already have begun. Regulators in the European Union already are planning restraints on Twitter through the guise of hate speech. Various federal regulators like the Federal Trade Commission are sharpening their knives. There will be attempts to throttle Twitter by far-left states. Expect to see enormous pressure from the left on advertisers to abandon Twitter

Just as Musk moved Tesla headquarters to Dallas, he should move Twitter out of San Francisco and to a friendly clime (Oklahoma) as his first move. He needs to clean house of the top managers – who, in any event, are unlikely to move to Oklahoma.

We will have much more about Twitter in the weeks and months ahead. We will tackle the thorny issue of how to moderate content – such as for disinformation, hate speech, clearly false tweets, threats and porn. Or, should there be no moderation whatsoever? MLLG is seriously considering establishing a Twitter presence to permit us to comment on important issues in real time – stay tuned for more information.

Journalism in America has been dead for many years. Fake news, disinformation and outright lies proliferate. Fact checkers are corrupt and there is no place to find truth. Nonetheless, the dismal failure of CNN+ combined with Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter offers glimmers of hope. Would it be that the promise of Twitter, under Elon Musk, will be in direct proportion to the progressive angst and paranoia!

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