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Britain's far right is booming on Elon Musk's Twitter (web.archive.org)
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Calling himself a “free speech absolutist”, Musk granted an amnesty to hundreds of accounts that had been kicked off the platform. Within hours, those belonging to right-wing Britain First leader Paul Golding, along with former deputy Jayda Fransen and the party itself, reappeared. “We’re absolutely pleased,” Golding says. “Now that we’re back on Twitter, our following is growing very, very rapidly.

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[-] jimmyjoners@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

I'm going to go ahead and say this is all by design.

[-] Kara@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Yep, now people who buy into Musk's Twitter Blue are boosted on the site, and the only people willing to buy into that are right wingers and bootlickers

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