@mattshortridge Michael Flynn involvement w/ #QAnon is a bit complicated. I think that real is Mike's son came to believe in Pizzagate and Mike's background gave him credibility and became an Q icon. Originally, it seems that his bro Charles was into conspiracy theory seminars even before Q (He met Sidney Powell that seminar), so I think Flynn family had a high affinity w/ conspiracy theories. But now Mike Jr has become a Q sceptic, they were also just swept up in the conspiracy business. IMO
Jim Watkins was a server supplier and business partner of Japanese bulletin board "2channel", but after a dispute with Hiroyuki Nishimura over money, he effectively took over and gained the right to run Japan's largest anonymous board, which still exists today under the name 5channel. "QAnon phenomenon" was inspired the methods of spreading disinformation in Japanese largest anounymous bulletin board.
Musk began to a defiant attitude in full shift. He starting blow the dog whistle to "them". He doesn't even try to hide it anymore. Incredibly dangerous.
(Musk now claims that he meant to quote "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", but there's no way he doesn't know what a dog whistle "Follow the White Rabbit" means in the QAnon conspiracy theory world.)
Speaking of which, the men behind "Q", "Ron Watkins" and his dad former 8chan and 8kun owner "Jim Watkins" have been in Sapporo, Japan, for several days.
Probably they need to meet Japanese partners in connection with a court case against "Hiroyuki Nishimura" (founder of 2channel, currentry owner of 4chan) over his share of money on the Japanese anonymous board 2channel, which is a major roots of chan-culture.
I stand with Mr. Scott Kelly. He is courageous enough to admonish against the man who once hailed as a genius entrepreneur and the richest person in the world has now lost his mind completely in a crowd of his dogs.
Musk's birdsite announced to advertising industry group that they are setting up an in-house content moderation team. (to take back advertising revenue)
"Musk’s obvious conviction that he has released some partisan kraken is mistaken — far from conspiracy or systemic abuse, the files are a valuable peek behind the curtain of moderation at scale, hinting at the Sisyphean labors undertaken by every social media platform."
#ElonMusk should recover his senses ASAP. Before it's too late. At least until five years ago, he would not have been the kind of person to blow such a ridiculous dog whistle.
(Have the people making a fuss over something called 'Twitter Files' forgotten all about what has happened since the Cambridge Analytica case? I can't help but wonder about their thought process.)
Bari Weiss (and Matt Taibbi) were going to expose Twitter's user account management tool (we know about this internal tool and there's nothing wrong with it), but They has expose Musk's birdsite has protected far-right viral accounts as labeled nowdays. Which simply highlights the stupidity of Elon Musk entrusting such a clumsy people with an internal information.
"we actually did learn something from #TwitterFiles 2:
1) Libs of TikTok received special treatment from Twitter, regular mods weren't allowed to take action on her account 2) Libs of TikTok was doxed under owner Elon Musk, the tweet was allowed to stay up"