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Elon Musk’s Twitter culture war

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Musk's Memes Are Awkward, Right?

Sally Kohn: Elon Musk has been captured by the far right on Twitter. She says he's trying extremely hard to be witty and funny and edgy in this way but also writes things like 69 days after 420 again, haha. But she argues that his personal political beliefs are going to be a lot harder to understand simply because they're his own. Kohn: For Musk, part of this is the protection of his status as,. you know, a revolutionary entrepreneur, a sort of Thomas Edison-like figure, right?

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