Elon Musk Shares Manipulated Harris Video, in Seeming Violation of X’s Policies

In a statement, the Harris campaign said, “The American people want the real freedom, opportunity and security Vice President Harris is offering; not the fake, manipulated lies of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.”

Perfect.

I love this "Emasculate the fragile strong men snowflakes." It's pretty effective.
That's why he doesn't want to debate. All she has to do is say that he doesn't have the mental fortitude to live in reality.
- doesn’t have the mental fortitude to live in reality.
  
  Perfectly said

The video mimics Ms. Harris’s voice, but instead of using her words from the original ad, it has the vice president saying that President Biden is senile, that she does not “know the first thing about running the country” and that, as a woman and a person of color, she is the “ultimate diversity hire.”

Here you go.

God that's bad. This is what I'd expected Russian trolls to do on Lemmy before getting down voted into oblivion, but I wouldn't expect a CEO to do this. This is fucked up.
- You can't train a Russian bot to sound as stupid as Musk - the tech just isn't there yet.
- Dude got his start with Apartheid money. Stste-sponsord discrimination is why he exists.
Jesus fucking Christ
I think a nickname like diversity hire Kamala would be the best they could do. However it’s not a great nickname cause all she has to do is talk a little, sound competent and the name kind of falls apart.

Still better than laughing Kamala, that just sounds like a children’s toy.

in Seeming Violation of X's Policies

But of course. That is why he bought the company -- to become un-bannable.

“Nobody can hurt my feelings ever again!”
- Does that mean Musk is a snowflake?
I shall be come ungovernable -A long Musty

everyday I'm thankful that Musk is not an US born citizen and cannot run for office. It's the only thing stopping him

It keeps you out of the Pres and VP office, but there are plenty of other offices.
- There's almost a 0% chance musk gets even remotely close to any cali government position with just public voting
  
  Literally a laughingstock

Next thing you know, Musky will order staff to create entirely false tweets on official accounts and lock the accounts so the false tweets can't be deleted. He will burn that entire company to the ground to get TFG back in.

At this point I'm convinced that Musk fully intends on world domination. The man is psychotic, he subscribes to the idea that we all live in a simulation and further that he's the only real player.

Him and Thiel are literally the people that all of the conservative NWO conspiracies worried about and somehow the conservatives are lining up to suck their dicks.
- Because there's only thing worse than a new world order, and that's not being at the top of the new world order
- I hope some crackhead with the same beliefs as Musk who is just poor fucken shanks Musk, preferably with a triangle bayonet.
TFG?
- The Former Guy. He was in Home Alone, starred in some reality show and sold steaks for a while.
- Thank Fod is Griday
TFG? The fucking ghoul?
Which, if that worked, would be a spendy but powerful play for turning the US into a one party autocracy.

Benefits (for musk): He doesn't need to manipulate elections anymore

Hazards: He now needs to manipulate the new regime.

Also the one party autocracy is not popular and depends on fascist rhetoric, eventually a war to keep the social unrest manageable. That doesn't work long term, and Musk is a clear collaborator

i love how irrelevant elon made twitter. like the big companies may not be on alternative networks but you also dont see hashtags and advertisements to discuss something on twitter anymore like you used to in the 10s

Unfortunately that was his task. Twitter was a pivotal tool in the Arab spring, second largest investor in Twitter after musk were the Saudis. Musk is such a try hard wannabe goon that when the "real" money told him they'd think he was cool if he bought and fucked up Twitter (and they would totally let him ride dirtbikes with them when he was done!) he jumped at the chance.
- I honestly believe that he was backed into a corner and this was his out. His mouth wrote checks he literally couldn't cash, and when he was forced to fork over the money, the spiteful little shit was like "Ok, well these oligarchs would like to see Twitter festroyed anyway, so let's do that."
- Yes, it was an attack on journalism
- Relying on private corp tools is not sustainable. We can’t expect our oppressors help us break the chains.
'in the 10s'

.. man I feel old now lol.
- Was wondering when we are gonna use decade names.
  
  Finally!!!

I thought X got rid of all of the sane policies that twitter had?

I mean isn't X officially a white supremacist platform now anyways?

And EVERY single news organization in the US uses it both as their primary platform AND source for news.

Even fucking NPR. What the actual fuck is that about ?

90% of screenshots on Lemmy are from Twitter ffs. It boggles my mind, and I am not easily boggled.
- The problem is consensus. No one can make consensus on abandoning the site happen.
- I thought NPR left Twitter when Musk had them labeled as "state controlled media"
Musky wanted to do that but Europe threatened to ban Twitter so now he just pretends that there are rules.

Is anyone the least bit shocked at the "rules for thee" behavior from these subhuman pieces of shit? Why are we allowing them to be in charge of anything again?

Because people won't leave Xitter. Mastodon was propped up expressly as a replacement, but the bird yet lives.
- I think this is the reason for all word’s problems, not enough people are willing to give up a tiny luxury (in this case addiction) when that’s what we need to move forward.
Inherited wealth centralizes money and power, and egregious hoarding like billionaire level centralized wealth makes people greedy, paranoid, and disconnected from the reality most other people experience.
I wanted to comment "Who watches the watchers" but it's not even funny

I hate it when these articles never include the video. How am I supposed to learn about manipulation if I'm "being protected against it"?

You can find it without them boosting it for free. But you don't have to watch it to understand the story

I hope Harris wins and I really hope she is a petty and vindictive person that goes out of her way to make Imon Ketamusk's life a pain in the ass.

You don’t even need to be petty and vindictive to correct the situation where a single unelected person has that much power.

That name should be some sort of verb or something, “lets not Musk this up” or “are you really that Musk?” I dunno something like that

"I sure hope he doesn't get Munson'd"

I am so shocked!

(Not)

If my younger self from like 3 years ago heard generating videos can be a prompt away and can make gigantic amounts of misinformation, he would shit himself and probably write a manifesto, but fuck me this is still insane today!

I can't tell whether 3 years ago you were pre-potty training but fully literate, or whether you've simultaneously learned better emotional regulation and sphincter control in the past few years.
- People tend to change more, psychologically speaking, between 18-25. They might have been 17-18 three years ago. Makes sense with the manifesto comment.

Elon seems to be a deep shit blackhole. The more shit is there the more shit is attracted.

twitter?

i, for one, am chagrined