It's hard to see what an avowed far-right militant 'would be doing much differently' than Elon Musk with his Twitter policies, extremism expert says
In an interview with Insider, J.M. Berger, a researcher on extremism and extremist movements on social media, explained what constitutes extremism and how Musk fits into the right-wing extremist ecosystem.I don't know how much you knew about Musk before his Twitter takeover, but is he someone who would have been considered a right-wing extremist or someone adjacent to right-wing extremism?
I don't want to guess what Elon Musk's personal journey has been, but what we've seen since he did this takeover is that he started off positioning himself as this kind of super neutral and he's sort of explicitly saying he's politically neutral. And… there are two things that we've seen since then. First is in his interactions on Twitter, he is increasingly palling around with — and apparently paying heed to — some of the worst people on the far right.
I think he's intentionally empowering right-wing extremists… any argument that he's trying to empower the center is patently bullshit and should be treated as such. I know there were efforts made by Twitter leaders to be more inclusive [and] to try to stamp out hate — that's why there were so many suspended accounts in the first place before Musk reinstated many of them. But, I know there were alsoand the way he handled some prominent white supremacist accounts.
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