Elon Musk Is Gaming the Internet for Fascism

The billionaire X owner is accelerating his AI-driven assaults on reality and Europe had better harden its defences, argues Heidi Siegmund Cuda

“Vladimir Putin has said that whoever controls AI will control the world, and it appears that Musk is doing everything he can to help Putin along.”—Craig Unger

A video of Elon Musk, the stretched out neck of his t-shirt hanging loosely, is making the rounds on Twitter/X.

“Eventually we’re going to see widespread slaughter in Europe,” he says in a video to the Italian League Party Congress, stoking fear about mass migration and sounding like a racist chatbot.

“You’re clearly seeing a massive increase in the number of attacks. And the legacy media downplays these attacks. But the attacks, the terrorism, the killing of innocent people is rising. Every week, there’s more.”

He suggests to “extrapolate the graph” and one wonders if he even knows what extrapolate means.

His statement is entirely bereft of facts, and that prompts fiery retorts on Twitter/X.

Geopolitical analyst Joni Askola posted a real graph showing violent crime on the decline throughout Europe:

Byline Times co-founder Peter Jukes wrote: “The violent homicide rate in Europe is much much lower than the US. Why does Musk spout this utter bollox…”

Jay In Kyiv noted:

“Musk wants you to think he cares about anything that happens to people. But what he wants is to merely usher in a new Russia-aligned system of fascist political parties that are the only key to the next level of wealth he desires. Neo-feudalism. Russia has monopolized anti-immigration into far right political parties while moderates still have no idea what’s going on.”