{"id":15469,"date":"2024-08-09T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/elon-musks-journey-from-humanitarian-to-poster-of-rightwing-memes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:39:09","slug":"elon-musks-journey-from-humanitarian-to-poster-of-rightwing-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/elon-musks-journey-from-humanitarian-to-poster-of-rightwing-memes\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s journey from humanitarian to poster of rightwing memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X owner has cited transgender daughter Vivian\u2019s transition as reason for shift, blaming \u2018the woke mind virus\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Once, the chief executive of one of the world\u2019s largest companies approvingly sharing a fabricated headline published by the leadership of a fascist party would have been news. For Elon Musk, it was just Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Unusually for Musk, his post, a retweet of the Britain First co-leader Ashlea Simon sharing a fake Telegraph headline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/elon-musk-shares-faked-telegraph-story-rioters-falklands-camps\">about detainment camps in the Falkland Islands<\/a> for the English rioters, was deleted shortly after being sent. In the 30 minutes it was live on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter that he bought in 2022, it managed to rack up almost 2m views.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/09\/elon-musks-journey-from-humanitarian-to-poster-of-rightwing-memes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d8fd5cd7b3093e6d381086aeba333931b10d31cc\/0_120_4626_2776\/master\/4626.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1b298fdd446b830c62ec84e77e2943b4\" title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s journey from humanitarian to poster of rightwing memes\" \/>X owner has cited transgender daughter Vivian\u2019s transition as reason for shift, blaming \u2018the woke mind virus\u2019<br \/>\nOnce, the chief executive of one of the world\u2019s largest companies approvingly sharing a fabricated headline published by the leadership of a fascist party would have been news. For Elon Musk, it was just Thursday.<br \/>\nUnusually for Musk, his post, a retweet of the Britain First co-leader Ashlea Simon sharing a fake Telegraph headline about detainment camps in the Falkland Islands for the English rioters, was deleted shortly after being sent. In the 30 minutes it was live on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter that he bought in 2022, it managed to rack up almost 2m views. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X owner has cited transgender daughter Vivian\u2019s transition as reason for shift, blaming \u2018the woke mind virus\u2019 Once, the chief executive of one of the world\u2019s largest companies approvingly sharing a fabricated headline published by the leadership of a fascist party would have been news. For Elon Musk, it was just Thursday. Unusually for Musk, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/elon-musks-journey-from-humanitarian-to-poster-of-rightwing-memes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk\u2019s journey from humanitarian to poster of rightwing memes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}