It’s fascinating to me to see the subtle way that Elon is using Twitter to lie for his gain. He makes claims about free speech and spins it so that conservatives feel emboldened while being a giant hypocrite and banning people, censoring tweets he doesn’t like, and spreading misinformation to prop himself up and put his competition down.

Then he moves to the reinforcement stages of these plans by doing shit like this. It’s likely that nothing will come out of this lawsuit but that doesn’t matter. For anyone that he’s manipulating, the headline and tweet are the only things that matter. They drive the narrative forward. They have little info that can be debunked or even evaluated in any meaningful way and, by the time anyone figures out it’s a bunch of empty nonsense, he’ll move on to the next headline and tweet.

It’s kinda genius. Evil, manipulative, dangerous genius and is slowly adding to the decline of the public’s ability to assess institutions and ideas.