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Trump Threatens to Jail Mark Zuckerberg for Life

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13 points by hsnewman a year ago · 10 comments

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qwertox a year ago

Maybe he should look into X as well.

Two weeks ago I started using an account created in the early times which I never used.

It is so extremely full of Republican and pro-Trump propaganda, that this just can't be normal. It made me so angry that started following a lot of Democrats in hopes of X realizing that I don't want to read all those Republican posts.

Did not help. I could swear that Elon is pushing Republican posts to an extreme.

  • krapp a year ago

    >I could swear that Elon is pushing Republican posts to an extreme.

    Of course he is. His whole rationale for buying Twitter was to purge it of the "woke mind virus" he blames for his daughter being transgender. He's bumped openly white supremacist and right-wing conspiracy content from his account. Anything Republican, conservative or pro-Trump is a given. Everyone has noticed that stuff (as well as bots and scam accounts) proliferate since he took over.

    And notice how the same people who lost their minds over the "Twitter Files" (which were a nothingburger) and spread conspiracy theories about Google editing white people out of history (they don't) suddenly don't care when the bias is in their favor.

fullshark a year ago

What is this conspiracy theory that Zuckerberg created lock boxes full of votes and what's the genesis of it?

  • verdverm a year ago

    Paragraph ~6/7

    In a June 2021 interview with Fox Business, Trump falsely claimed that he “won the election,” that Democrats “cheated,” and that “Facebook and [CEO Mark] Zuckerberg, with the $500 million worth of phony lockboxes that he put on, some of them had 96 percent Biden votes in them — 96 percent!”

    The claim was bogus then, and it’s bogus today — but almost four years after the fact Trump is still using it to sow doubt about the 2020 election.

    • fullshark a year ago

      But what's it based on?

      • rsynnott a year ago

        The fertile imagination of a crazy person, I would assume. Like, what is any of the weird stuff he says based on?

        • tocs3 a year ago

          I suspect that there is also plenty of opportunities for others to whisper into Trump's ear.

      • xenospn a year ago

        A 4chan post, no doubt.

      • r2_pilot a year ago

        As with nearly anything Trump-related, it's based on very little of anything to do with reality, and good luck with trying to source it other than "I said it".

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