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He also gave "extensive, unfiltered access to Twitter's internal communication and systems" to (among others) the author of a book titled "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters."

It's a very well researched book. Shrier is one hell of a good journalist.

There's also the conspiracy that the broader category of uneducated people have co-opted the word fascist.

I knew he did some things people didn't like, but I didn't know he was promoting fascist conspiracy theories. Could you give examples?

"My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601894132573605888?

Is Fauci lying to congress about gain-of-function research a fascist conspiracy theory? I don't think that's right.

can we explain how wanting to prosecute Fauci (idk what even for) is a conspiracy theory that is also fascist?

There are several conspiracy theories linked to this meme: https://www.factcheck.org/2022/08/correcting-misinformation-...

This hints of a conspiracy theory that Anthony Fauci was funding research that lead to the creation of SARS-COV2: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601894132573605888

Then there is a conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi and a male prostitute: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1132906782/elon-musk-twitter-...

There are numerous replies of his that are somewhat questionable without being outright promotion, but troubling nevertheless. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-...

Isn't it a well known fact that virology lab in Wuhan received funding from the US? Although I do not know if this can be tied to Fauci personally.

He signed some of the paperwork I guess. But more critically, he subsequently lied about it.

I’m going to guess that these won’t quite meet your definition of facist but it’s pretty clear the guy is a full-on shitposting edgelord at best.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-30/column-e...

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/elon-musk-s-hitler-twe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Elon_Musk

Yeah, to me he seems right-wing, but I don't think I'd call him facist. And a bit of an edgelord, yeah.

Two of his most recent tweets are

> My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

and

> The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters

The first one seems connected to various conspiracy theories around COVID. The second one is more of a general culture war thing, maybe with some suggestions towards civil war. Altogether Musk is saying stuff that is pretty close to QAnon, which I suspect is what was meant by "fascist conspiracy theories".

I wouldn't necessarily call it fascist conspiracy theories, but the first tweet is deeply irresponsible. It puts a target on a single person that already received plenty of death threats and supports all kinds of outlandish conspiracy theories.

only leftists don't enjoy hateful, spiteful, fearful and angry memes blaming our problems on others

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