Plutocrats and technocrats gathered in Davos this week for the World Economic Forum's annual management conference. The resort quickly filled up with people who frequently talked about changing the world, but one person who made good on his threats was conspicuously absent: South African billionaire Elon Musk.
musk
was suggested Last month, he turned down an invitation to travel, but “that's not the reason.'' [he] I thought they were plotting some nefarious plot, but it just seemed boring (lol).”
But WEF spokesperson Jan Zopp suggested Musk was not invited.
tell The Tesla CEO last received an invitation “both this year and recently, the last time in 2015,” according to the Associated Press.
The so-called elite, comfortable in the safety of Switzerland and confident of Mr. Musk's absence, wasted no time in violently attacking the tech tycoon and his unleashed social media platform.
Naomi Oreskesa Harvard professor who supposedly specializes in the history of climate change “disinformation” has run out of carbons complaining about Musk's X to Italian-Swiss physicist and university president Luciana Vaccaro.
“I was on Twitter for a long time, and now I've concluded that it's become such a toxic place that it's not a place worth spending my time on,” Oreskes said. Ta. “I've already given up on X. Even that's a scary name, isn't it?”
mask later
commented“X is literally a letter of the alphabet, LOL.”
independent journalist
Rukshan Fernando I got it. Contrary to the Harvard professor's claims that she had given up on X, she “kept coming back.”
August 19, 2023, Oreskes
I have written“Hello everyone. Like many others, I've decided to leave Twitter. I'm sad to have to rebuild everything we've built here, but @ elonmusk has already dismantled the best parts of this network.”
Oreskes' self-imposed exile lasted a month. She returned on September 27th and continued to post her semi-regularly for the next few weeks.
Vaccaro on Monday agreed with Oreskes, calling X “a toxic environment.” …There is no solution to that, but there will come a time when a code of conduct in this place will be imposed, because if journalists spread crazy news. If a journalist wrote these things, it could be corrected. ”
Vaccaro hinted that because social media is still relatively new, unwanted voices have “tremendous power” on social media, but added that “there is a lot of social control over how information gets out there.” Of course, regarding X, there is also the issue of the owner's current policy, but I think this will be a problem for society in the future.
Musk has helped expose his platform's past efforts to collaborate with government forces to suppress speech. answered Post an X with a laughing emoji.
Oreskes and Vaccaro's aversion to the free flow of information online, on X and elsewhere, appears to be shared by other academics, politicians and bureaucrats associated with the WEF.
Blaze News previously reported that the WEF ranked “misinformation and disinformation” and severe weather as the biggest threats facing humanity. Global Risk Report 2024.
The report defines misinformation and disinformation as “persistent false information (intentionally or not) that is widely disseminated through media networks and significantly shifts public opinion toward distrust of facts and authority.” are doing.
Musk responded to the report last week:
write“'Misinformation' means anything that is contrary to the WEF agenda.”
The billionaire's conflict with this “agenda” appears to have made him a target. Last month, the European Union announced it had opened an investigation into Musk's X for allegedly spreading “illegal content and disinformation.”
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