Another day, another messy thoughtless political flareup by Elon Musk. The man obviously can’t stop erratically shooting messengers in his clumsy attempts to protect and promote hate speech.

The tactic he uses often mirrors well-known Nazi propaganda, where anyone reporting harms is blamed for those harms. Like if someone said systemic racism in America has resulted in positions of power held only by white men, they would be accused by Elon Musk of expressing bias against white men.

Kristallnacht in November 1938 is just one of many examples of this turnabout.

The German government made an immediate pronouncement that “the Jews” themselves were to blame for the pogrom [instigated and orchestrated by Nazi officials] and imposed a fine of one billion Reichsmark (some 400 million US dollars at 1938 rates) on the German Jewish community. The Reich government confiscated all insurance payouts to Jews whose businesses and homes were looted or destroyed, leaving the Jewish owners personally responsible for the cost of all repairs.

Victims of systemic racism were blamed for it; Jews falsely accused of being the ones causing all the trouble that Nazis directed at them.

We learn from history that the act of silencing critics, by illogically assigning blame to them, is not something to be taken lightly as it often accelerates harms. And yet Elon Musk is one of the biggest speech censors on the Internet given how he tries to cancel all criticism he dislikes.

Tesla has ballooning technical safety issues precisely because his engineers work hardest at hiding important safety criticisms from the CEO.

They are literally killing people with negligent disregard for those who report harms.

Who can forget this episode, for example?

To be clear, those of us in 2016 who reported that Elon Musk’s fraudulent claims about “driverless” were going to get people killed… were accused by Elon Musk of getting people killed.

See the problem with such word games?

Tesla in fact then began killing more, and more, and more people… all the while trying to blame it on someone, anyone else.

In other words if we had accused him of racism (i.e. his work environment has been repeatedly judged by courts as obviously racist) he would have called us the racists even as he kept on barking about “his struggle” (mein Kampf) to personally intervene and stop extinction of the white race.

Here’s one thread to observe:

And here is another one, from an attempt to meddle in Scotland politics.

A spokesperson for Yousaf said on Friday: “The first minister has been on the receiving end of racist hate, abuse and death threats his entire life, and has stood firm against hatred and bigotry, of any kind, throughout.

“Sadly, much of the racist abuse and threats of violence the first minister faces are directed his way on X. Mr Musk should use his position to tackle racism and hatred that goes unchecked on the social media platform he owns.”

[…]

Musk, the owner of Tesla, Space X and the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, reacted to a 45-second clip of Yousaf listing all the senior public posts in Scotland held by white people, which was posted on X by an anonymous account called End Wokeness.

The account, which has a paid-for blue verification mark, accused Yousaf, who is Scotland’s first ethnic minority first minister, of “openly despising white people”. It said: “Why would Scotland’s parliament and King select a guy who hates almost 100% of the country?”

Musk replied: “What a blatant racist!”

Got that?

A public servant who has spent his life being anti-racist, who has dedicated himself to protecting people from racism, gets accused of being the racist by an infamously racist troll (from a racist family) who has used ill-gotten wealth to convert Twitter into a racist hate speech spigot. The truth is fairly obvious here, right?

Backwards and upside down, Musk keeps repeating the worst and most ignorant mistakes in history as if he found a magic loophole to avoid accountability for being racist.

Also note the role of a blue verification mark. It has come to represent little more than troll accounts either paid for by Russia or coin-operated mules trying to juice attention.

Related:

• Twitter Blue is a hate speech indicator
• Twitter Blue promotes Russian misinformation operations

A new report explains how dangerous violent misinformation is being aggressively expanded by Elon Musk

…posts advancing these myths received 1,349,979 engagements and were cumulatively viewed by more than 100 million times globally in just one week. When faced with criticism that his sweeping changes have led to increased misinformation on the platform, Musk often touts his expansion of X’s crowdsourced fact-checking feature, called “Community Notes.” However, NewsGuard found that just 79 of the 250 posts advancing misinformation about the war were flagged by the platform with a Community Note. That means that a note appeared approximately 32 percent of the time on some of the platform’s most prominent and harmful misinformation posts.

This shows eXtwitter has a 70% failure rate when trying to shift accountability to “community” volunteer safety.

Meanwhile, the report concludes eXtwitter management is complicit in facilitating dangerous terrorist propaganda.

The Blue Check-Verified Misinformation Superspreaders of the Israel-Hamas War: …account was banned… reinstated after Musk acquired X. It became blue-check verified in September 2023, one month before the onset of the Israel-Hamas War. Collectively, the [terrorist group misinformation] posts from @Sprinter99800 were cumulatively viewed nearly 3 million times.

Timing indicates the account was setup and run by Russia as part of effort with Hamas to start a war in Israel.

The banned account was reinstated by Elon Musk and verified allegedly for use by Russian military intelligence, like many others.

Спринтер – @Sprinter88000
Sprinter – @Sprinter99800
Sprinter – @Sprinter99880
Sprinter Monitor- @SprinterMonitor

Notice, for example, this Russian directed propaganda campaign:

And then notice who else in September 2022 was caught up parroting Russian bully speech:

…Musk had recently spoken with Russia’s ambassador in Washington, who had warned him explicitly that any attack on Crimea would lead to nuclear conflict.

In fact, the exact opposite happened next, attacks on Crimea led to Russia running away scared. Arguably these attacks shortened the war and reduced threats to civilians.

This was easily predicted by historians, especially those who study how General Grant crushed pro-slavery forces by pushing straight past such empty threat tactics to liberate millions from oppression.

And yet, not just last year, but even to this day Musk keeps parroting the baseless Russian propaganda. This just in:

“We need to figure out peace in Ukraine, and I think we need to restore normal relations with Russia,” Musk said in a talk on his social media platform X on Monday. “World War III is a civilizational risk that we may not recover from. So we need to prioritize avoiding World War III…”

Musk’s suggestions have been derided by Ukrainian officials as non-starters. “F— off is my very diplomatic reply to you @elonmusk,” Ukrainian diplomat Andriy Melnyk responded to his proposal in October 2022.

No wonder Russia started a war in Israel, and no wonder they are paying Elon Musk to spread their propaganda on his sinking platform to keep it afloat.

Anyone expect Musk to ever get on the right side of history? He’s repeating the worst mistakes, ignorant beyond belief.

Related: The OSINTdefender – @sentdefender account is allegedly U.S. active duty military and a Russian mule.