Elon Musk’s Twitter battle ignites the right’s online agitators

Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesElon Musk’s short-lived push to buy Twitter has made him a lot of enemies — but it’s delivering exactly what a certain set of Republican influencers want. Right-wing figures like Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Jr. have already hailed Musk’s decision to back out of the deal. For them, the goal is no longer to control Twitter but to embarrass it.
“Maybe Elon never intended to buy Twitter after all,” Charlie Kirk, podcaster and CEO of Turning Point USA, said in a tweet on Friday. “Maybe he just wanted to expose it.”
“Maybe he just wanted to expose it.”
In a Sunday Gettr post, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said that Twitter has repeatedly lied “about the scale, scope, depth, source and ubiquity of BOTs versus actual human…

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