Elon Musk has been on a spree trying to reassure the right wing that he does
actually have their back with this Twitter thing.
He hasn't been able to deliver on all of his promises to them but
some he is making good on including, giving back access to the few right
wingers who have been banned permanently from the platform.
He already let Trump back on and
now Marjorie Greene's personal Twitter account is back.
And I want you to just bear in mind as we get into what she's doing with that
account once again.
While her personal account had been banned,
her congressional account was allowed to continue.
This is not like with Trump where,
any account he tried to tweet from immediately got banned.
She's been tweeting nonstop from her congressional account and
if you follow her congressional account,
there ain't a lick of difference between that and what her personal account was.
She could already say whatever crazy things she wanted,
now she can do it from two accounts.
And here is what she had to say in celebration of the banning
being taken away.
I'm the only member of Congress the unelected big tech oligarchs permanently
banned, which might say something more about you than about them but short.
On January 2nd they violated my freedom of speech which has nothing to do with
the actions of private companies.
One would think she'd have had time as a congresswoman to
eventually read the bill of rights, but she has not.
She says my account is back, go follow blah blah for MTG unfiltered and
then she did a winky face just in case you had any food in your stomach that's now
flying across the room.
Okay so by the way,
really fast is Elon Musk a big tech oligarch now Marjorie Greene.
I mean he's the richest person in the world and
he has sole control over a massive social media platform,
I have a feeling you probably won't lump him into that group.
But here is what she's been doing with her renewed access to Twitter.
She's been on a retweeting spree of post millennial things about her.
One of which has her spreading conspiracy theories about the death of George Floyd,
was one of the first things she did when she got back on it.
Was start to lie about how George Floyd died, she then gave Alex Jones for
being right about something she's calling the information war.
I don't know what that is and I don't know what her position is.
When Twitter is controlled by a right winger and
facebook is controlled by a right winger,
I don't know what more control over social media they could possibly have.
She attacked big tech communists for
silencing the voices of people who detransitioned and
speak out against the medicalized gender transitions of children.
So she's using it to demonize the trans community once again.
And just as a reminder the last tweets of hers that are still up on her account from
before she was banned, include her spreading covid misinformation.
That doesn't bother me as much, I mean I don't like misinformation but it's not
like anything other than Marjorie Greene cultists are gonna follow her advice and
inevitably needlessly die from COVID.
So, that's really for her side to police.
Anyway, Jordan's she's back on and
I can't imagine what could possibly get her banned again under Elon Musk.
>> Yeah, what she thrived on with that account was saying the most outrageous
things posting just totally blatant lies to get attention.
Because it helped get her more media coverage even generate outrage cycles,
which brought her more followers and attention.
Notices never ending cycle, her getting suspended,
I didn't really care about she still had her official account.
I don't think this was like silence totally silencing some member of Congress
which would be, just a bold step.
It wasn't that big of a deal, she knew what she was doing.
But the thing is in addition to her, there's all these other people in
the right wing world who had been suspended over the last several years for
heinous stuff, Twitter's didn't want that on their platform.
I understand why they wouldn't want that on their platform and
they've all been reinstated.
But for them they're doing the same thing saying and doing heinous things to get
attention to generate coverage, generate outrage cycles and rinse and
repeat over and over again and they would build up followings by doing this,
they're all back now while they don't have power in Congress,
they're getting more attention in the mainstream, which I think is unfortunate.
So it's like, it's tough to even talk about cover.
It's like, I really don't want to give them what they want because that they
thrive on that there's people who,, have made their way onto like daytime
television doing this, which is deeply unfortunate, I don't want to name them,
but like, it's just a method that the right sees as effective because you want
to cover both sides ultimately underscores the conversation people need to have
about, objectivity and media and whether we really do need to give people with
totally, totally fringe beliefs, the same platform and space in coverage on things
where someone just presenting the truth, even if it's inconvenient for the right.
So it's frustrating to see all these people back.
But that seems to be what Elon's game is just to win over and
curry favor with the right.
Yeah, well claiming as he did today that he's not doing anything to benefit
the right, it's the moderate wing that he is trying to appeal to.
meanwhile he literally only tweets at right wingers,
he's just unbanned ng right wing, that's what he's doing.
I mean, it's super clear, it couldn't be any clear yeah, I agree.
Look,, in response what you're saying, it does reassure me at least that
these people are successfully grifting for themselves and there are consequences for
that,, but it doesn't seem again to be a very successful electoral strategy,
so I'm a little bit less worried about that, but
we will continue to keep that on our mind as we go forward.