X owner Elon Musk has once again hijacked a rare coveted username from its original user.
This time, however, the takeover wasn’t for the good of X the company, it was so Musk could promote Donald Trump for president.
On Saturday, Musk appeared at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler Pennsylvania. However, earlier that day, Musk began promoting his pro-Trump Super PAC, called America PAC, using a brand new handle @America.
“Read @America to understand why I’m supporting Trump for President,” Musk’s new bio said as of approximately 1:30pm ET on Saturday, Oct. 5.
The @America handle appeared attached to a brand new account setup just this month, in October 2024. However, this rare, one-word geographic handle had already been long registered by another X user more than 14 years prior to Musk taking the handle from them, in September 2010.
According to a person familiar with the situation, X took the handle from the user much like how Musk’s social media company took the @X handle from its original registrant last year.
I’m not interested in what a drug-addled white supremacist has to say. I’m not allowed to use edibles on my days off because it can put my job at risk but this piece-of-shit uses ketamine, acid, shrooms and cocaine and is still allowed to have expensive government contracts.
I don’t get how anyone can Take Acid and stay a fascist. It creates the quite opposite feelings to hate.
Same situation with Joe Rogan. He’s a giant pothead but gets to use in Texas which has some of the strictest regulations in the country.
Some of those drugs will change your brain chemistry permanently or rewire it. They can even make you paranoid and start to believe weird conspiracies.
I assume he microdosed it because he read that it could increase productivity.
Because they think they can control him. Possibly why he’s so hell bent on this now too. It would explain some things. But he’s still a piece of shit no matter what. 🙃
Well, you could move to a less shitty state.
It doesn’t matter for the line of work I’m in until it is legalized federally.
After this, I don’t know what more proof anyone could possibly need that Xitter is purely a right-wing propaganda platform exactly equivalent to the likes of Truth [sic] Social. Anyone who continues to use Xitter supports this behavior. Continued use of accounts like @POTUS or @KamalaHarris or these is effectively an endorsement of equating Donald Trump with America. It has to stop! The platform has to be fully abandoned by every single person, organization, or government entity that isn’t fascist; there is no choice now.
Yup, it’s the new fascist bar.
Those non-fascist influencers, celebs, and other “must have” content sources for the remaining audience need to talk amongst themselves, decide on a new platform, and leave together. Their audience will see it, momentarily snap out of the inertia, download a new app, and barely notice the difference. Non-fascist politicians and news orgs who have to go to where the people are will have cover and can follow suit. It can be over in a week.
Anyone still in Twitter is a clown. It’s not different from being on Truth Social.
Indeed. I feel sorry for those people that feel compelled to still be on it for their jobs, or for their side-hustle/main-hustle or whatever, but yeah, anyone still on there just because? I have no idea, unless they are Nazis or Nazi adjacent.
Stealing @America sounds about right up his alley. Just like T Daddy.
Imagine a world where this shit was illegal
Imagine a world where this shit was irrelevant.
It’d be a weird world unless X/Twitter was government run. But at some point we’re going to hit the mother of all lawsuits… email is a standard communication medium for folks and lots of people still, and have forever, used @ hotmail, yahoo or gmail addresses.
It will be really fucking interesting the first time one of those companies seizes an address and diverts some critical notification.
If you’re still on Xitter at this point, you deserve all the bullshit you get. That place is a cesspool. You can’t swim in the toilet and then pretend to be mad you’re covered in shit.
This sends a clear message: if you still have a valuable handle, sell it now.
What a fucking loser honestly
Fully weaponizing “his platform” to influence the election. Painting a target on his back, making more enemies by the day. (Only this time, it’s not just his drug-induced paranoia.) Gambling everything, once again. Accidentally buying “the town square” was his biggest mistake.
“Let me tell you why I claim to support trump.”
The real reasons would never be spoken aloud.
Musk is a moron. So.
I wouldn’t take that bet. Even if ordinarily you’d be right.
Honest question from a non-American.
If Trump loses, how much of a case does Harris have of going after Musk for interfering in an election?
Probably very little.
I’m not up to speed on what Twitter is doing these days outside of what’s reported here on lemmy.
Unless Musk starts saying things like “Polls are closing early so don’t bother voting because Trump won” or things that will suppress votes, his actions and tweets are going to be categorized as political free speech, which has broad interpretation in the US. Sad, but true.
We, as well as our government officials, should remember that Twitter is not the public town square. It’s a dumpster fire that is owned by a private entity that permits users to throw their shit into. That private entity is within their right to do whatever they want within the confines of the law.
It is unbelievable to me how everyone is just walzing past the fact that a super-pac organizer attended a rally with the candidate.
None, because there isn’t even a pretension of justice under fascism.
how is this election interference, it isn’t forcing anyone to vote a particular way, nor is it manipulating ballots?
Look who really owns Twitter. It’s the people who loaned Musk money for his buyout.
Who is top of that list? Saudi Arabia.
And now Twitter is fully in service to the Republican party? Sounds like foreign electoral intervention to me…
Can Americans become media-literate quickly? That question could determine the election
Half of Americans are barely literate at all, forget media-literate.
See you don’t get it, it’s totally fine for musk to take the @America tag and push Twitter for Trump. Twitter was SUPER biased before because you couldn’t say the N-word whenever you want. It’s not biased at all now because it’s completely far right which is obviously the Correct Way to Be™ so it can’t be biased.
-dipshits
I don’t need to read @America to know why you support Trump. We all know. All of us know Elon.
Musk is so disgusting.
How long before Musk/Trump merges Twitter and Truth? They’re basically the same place at this point.
Vote for Trump so I won’t lose my captive market 🤣🤣🤣🤣
