Self proclaimed free speech absolutist Elon Musk is now under fire because
the widow of a Russian opposition figure and political prisoner, Alexei Navalny,
who recently died, his widow was suspended on Twitter very soon after starting
her Twitter account, actually.
So just days following the apparent murder of her husband,
Yulia Navalny's account was suspended. It has been started.
Just on Monday, it posted a video accusing the Kremlin of keeping Navalny's body
in order to hide traces of poisonous substances that may
have been used to engineer his death.
But as you can see there, I guess you can't see that video for a while now.
Hours later, after outcry, it was restored and Twitter says and heads up to my
producers, don't write X in my document.
I ain't calling it that. So anyway, I'm the world's pettiest bitch.
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They say her account was mistakenly flagged because of the mechanisms
built into the platform.
They have to do with manipulation and spam and bots and all that.
And I know what you're thinking why would we buy that?
Why would we accept the word of Elon Musk when he's a massive liar?
Well, I somewhat buy it only because I know how utterly overrun
with bots Twitter is these days.
Did you guys see this recent report that the majority of traffic from X through ads
during the Super Bowl was fake?
It was bots. It wasn't real.
It was 76% of all the traffic.
And by the way, there are bots on other platforms.
And analysis of these bots show that other platforms do have some
of the traffic from ads or bots.
It's like 1%, 2%, nothing like this.
And remember every change that he has made to Twitter, he has said he's done it
to help fight against bots.
And yet bots are worse on the platform than they've ever been.
So is he incompetent or is he lying?
And when it comes to Yulia Navalny being suspended, is it incompetence or did
he find her rhetoric to be inconvenient?
I honestly don't know. He's such a bad guy in so many ways.
I'm not sure which one is most likely, but Ravana, what do you think?
Well, I would say if it was, you know, anybody else,
I might be more sympathetic to the idea that, like, it was, an honest mistake,
particularly because of the rampant bots.
And shout out to Matt Bender for that, that reporting on that.
But we know that Elon Musk has, you know, a history of, one supporting Russia
in material ways during this conflict.
But also, the idea that he's some free speech champion is ridiculous,
particularly, you know, given the reports that he silenced journalists
at the behest of the Modi government, he silenced journalists here in the United
States, because they reported on the his private jet and his harassment of a kid
running a page that just covered, where his private jet was flying to.
I mean, it's such a ridiculous thing, but anybody who still uses Twitter
can tell can say the bot problem is genuinely the worst it's ever been.
Bots promoting, only fans pages are under every single one of my tweets,
most people's tweets.
My inbox has never been more full of, you know, fake advertising accounts.
And his argument was that he was going to introduce Twitter blue, or, you know, ramp
it up really to, you know, or X premium, whatever they're calling it now,
but to deal with the bot problem.
But the bots just started paying for blue checks on their account
to be pushed to the front of, comment sections to be boosted in your, messages.
So it hasn't worked.
But, you know, much like Donald Trump, Elon Musk fanboys, it doesn't matter
what evidence there is against him.
They don't care. They don't want to hear it.
I mean, he replied to this article on Twitter and just told the person
who posted it to shut up.
No, no actual evidence that he's tackled in any meaningful way the bot problem.
And, you know, just his fanboys were eating it up and laughing
during the crying laughing face emoji because yeah, they don't they don't care.
Because that's his love language. Yeah.
No, I'm sure that if you're a corporation thinking about spending millions
of dollars on Twitter, him saying shut up to evidence that they're falsifying
the results, I think that reassures you.
I think that you're ready to drop six, seven, eight figures on that.
Utterly ridiculous.
By the way, we haven't even talked about this story yet.
Maybe we will.
Later this week, it has been revealed that he has, like a sock puppet account
that he has been posting under and literally having conversations
with on Twitter for some time.
So it's not enough that there are genuine losers that worship this guy
and try to reply to everything he says, and it's not enough that he spends
all day on his own Twitter account.
He's spending more time than that on this sock puppet account.
And by the.
Way are we supposed to pretend that this is the only one that he has?
There is every reason to believe that he spends 24 hours a day
just on meth, tweeting from, like, eight different accounts.
Yeah, and utterly pathetic.
Immediately banned the account that uncovered that.
- That was his, his alt account. - That part I didn't even know.
We might have to do a report on it tomorrow.
But anyway, thankfully, the account is back up.
Hopefully the widow and the widow's family will be able to get Alexei Navalny's body
so they can do some sort of analysis of it, try to get some sort of information
or closure about exactly what was done to take this man's life.
But anyway, for, for right now, she is able to tweet.
So I guess that's the good news.