I think Elon and friends are trying to shift attention away from the H-1B visa debacle to anti-Muslim rhetoric.
That's the benefit of owning a platform like Twitter. Basically, we're back to the same thing with traditional media - narrative control.
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Same goal different methods, traditional media was vertical, top-down, you had four or five big media houses and they in-orchestra with the state, controlled the larger narrative. Elon on the other hand, as clearly expressed by himself multiple times, seeks to make us all nodes in this propaganda machine, every individual is the media, serving under and for the Algorithm.