# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1)

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**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/1819 "2022-11-30T22:04:54Z")

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Because the reply is political and per the mod note, I’m replying here a bit more to @Tired_and_Cranky

> [@Now that Musk bought Twitter -- Breaking News only](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/35):
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> Musk firmly believes in climate change. (Even a stopped clock is right twice per day.) His two most prominent business endeavors, Tesla and SpaceX, are purportedly motivated by the threat of climate change. The electric cars are supposed to forestall climate change and the rockets are supposed to save him if the Earth becomes uninhabitable. Perhaps, if any good is to come of this Twitter debacle at all, it will be because Musk convinces his right wing fanbase that climate change is real and is going to kill us all and they join the rest of humanity in trying to do something to stop it.

Unfortunately, conspiracies have been reported a lot coming from Musk lately, the thing about conspiracies is that among the ones that fall for one are more likely to fall for others. They are like Lays potato chips, you just can’t have just one.

The point was that the crowd that Musk is helping here is not conductive to social progress. Time will tell if the bubble of information Musk is relying on will not influence his position about climate change.

I’m not optimistic though, and I say this based on many examples that I have seen from “normies” with right wing leanings that spend too much time in right wing conspiracy media bubbles.

> **[Right-wing conspiracy theories flood Twitter hours after the Musk takeover as...](https://fortune.com/2022/10/28/twitter-takeover-elon-musk-right-wing-conspiracy-theories-content-moderation-account-suspended/)**
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> As of Friday afternoon, the AP found “account suspended” was still in place for right-wing activist James O’Keefe, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and many more.

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