Elon is pretty bad, however, he intends to make things worse, far, far, far worse while weaponizing the authoritarian captured platform.
Elon has hired this guy.
Why is this problematic?
Because this guy is effectively going to dump/amplify racist and fascist conspiracies.
The Wuhan lab-leak conspiracy has no merit to it, as COVID-19 began circulating in Brazil March of 2019, as evidenced in studies on viral loads in raw sewage. Later studies proved that the country again had sufficient community spread November 2019. Despite the Wuhan lab leak theory having been debunked repeatedly, China is a primary racist foil for the far-right to cudgel similar to how they employ gross antisemitism targeting George Soros. That means it will continue to get hit over falsehoods laundered into the press when actual stories regarding China SHOULD be focused on instead like their penchant for corporate espionage, militarization of uninhabited islands, and work arounds on sanctions with North Korea.
The far right’s focus solely on China also reduces the focus on the greater adversary, Russia, who attacked our elections, our Democracy, our economy, our energy production, our intelligence agencies and our military, before they launched the kinetic war in Ukraine.
More concerning Jason is his relationship with fellow fascist-enabler Yoel Roth.
The N-Bots, which are a manufactured crisis that will likely be solved by Elon’s team just after the midterms, are very similar to those Yonder and Remi Barrette have built, meant to be found quickly, vanquished after making the news, just so the bad guys can pretend to be the good guys. Those Bots are just another stunt like the one Elon likely had play out with “fired” workers last week that were just actors. This Jason tweet reflected on fake-employee “Ligma’s” firing that trolled major news outlets.
More Jason and Yoel.
Being laser focused on identity means verifying humans, which will require people to authenticate handing over more personal data to the world’s most wealthy man. That in theory is a great thing, winnowing the number of sock accounts multi-banned operators of single purpose hate accounts like Susan Portnoy, Louise Mensch and Matt Donovan, until one realizes THOSE people have full protection by Twitter Safety and Yoel Roth these past several years to operate with impunity trying to get people killed. They will still keep their Anon status, able to continue their attempts to topple US Democracy because Yoel Roth being Elon’s inside man, isn’t getting fired.
Yoel began as head of Twitter Safety the same month Robert McNeese committed suicide after more than a year’s worth of abuse was piled on by teams led by Louise Mensch and Doug Matthew Stewart, November 2017. Mensch had just gotten off a one-week suspension. Instead of removing Mensch, the only operative whose identity was clearly known, Twitter under Yoel took no action.
While I do not know specifically why this Jason guy is most problematic, this endorsement by Chahal of why he shouldn’t be brought on is quite convincing.
Back to Jason.
Yes, quickly.
It won’t be hard at all to stop the conduct they themselves are responsible for, will it?