This is because Russian propaganda drives clicks and makes them money

Tech firms fail to tackle Russian propaganda by choosing to ignore it and increase their bottom-line revenue

ftfy

It was out of control before the pandemic.

They advertise literal scam. What did you expect of them?

Muskchan isn’t failing to control Russian propaganda; it’s succeeding at allowing it to flourish unchecked, while labelling the NPRs and ABCs of this world as “government mouthpieces”. Everything is going very much to plan.

Perhaps it’s a purely business decision: help Putin with his goals and maybe Tesla can get a sweet deal on those rare-earths under Siberia or something. Perhaps it’s a shared contempt for the liberal institutions Russia’s bot farms are trying to bring down. Or perhaps it’s more personal: a rapport between two self-identified alpha males, both intuitively understanding themselves as Nietzschean Supermen, above the petty concerns of slave morality that bind lesser men. Whichever it is, it’s too consistent to be a coincidence.

Good.