Twitter CEO Elon Musk remains to be getting warmth for showing to gush about tweets posted by a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin predicting that America can be ripped aside by civil conflict, that Musk would change into U.S. president, and {that a} “Fourth Reich” can be created in Europe.
After the messages Monday by Russian Ukrainian Conflict cheerleader Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of the Safety Council of the Russian Federation, Musk posted: “Epic thread!”
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Roughly 4 hours later — after Musk was swamped by criticism — he mocked Medvedev for the “most absurd predictions I’ve ever heard.”
Some Musk allies insisted the “epic thread” remark was the billionaire’s method of “trolling Russian propaganda,” a perspective Musk appeared to endorse. Others stated he was encouraging the propaganda of a Putin henchman and “genocidal racist.”
In both case, Musk’s remark helped rocket consideration to Medvedev’s posts.
In October, Musk pushed his personal pro-Russia “peace plan”for Ukraine, regardless of having no expertise in world affairs and international negotiations. He urged Ukraine to cede territory to the nation that invaded it and continues to bomb.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a sarcastic Twitter ballot in response, asking “which Elon Musk do you want extra?” One who helps Ukraine” or “One who helps Russia.”
Anti-Putin political activist and world chess champ Garry Kasparov, bashed Musk’s plan.
“That is ethical idiocy, repetition of Kremlin propaganda, a betrayal of Ukrainian braveness and sacrifice, and places a couple of minutes looking Crimea on Wikipedia over the present horrific actuality of Putin’s bloody conflict,” Kasparov stated on Twitter.
Russian professional Fiona Hill, who served on the Nationwide Safety Council within the Trump Administration — and testified at Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial — advised Politico in an interview later that Musk was clearly “transmitting a message” for Putin along with his plan.