He was trying to scare Media Matters and forgot a) a lot of folks don’t like him and b) a lot of folks hate lying bullies.
Beautiful.
Should we call this the Musk effect? Feels mean to involve Streisand.
The Streisand Effect can be for vanity and secrecy. Trying to draw attention away from something the protagonist wants hidden brings more attention.
The Musk Effect can be for suck, for evil, for failure. Trying to draw attention away from evil brings more attention to the overwhelming amount of evil, of failure.
Works for me.
While I am very happy to see twitter burn, I’m gonna be that guy:
Suddenly IBM isn’t ok with nazis? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I’m mostly being facetious, because I know things change and maybe that is why IBM is so zero tolerance.
“suddenly”
