Elon Musk is a very interesting figure who acts as a sort of nexus of events because everything he does changes things dramatically. He's number one in advancing humanity toward being a space-faring race, his electric vehicles are changing and redefining how a car should be, and he even played a hand in discovering fraud and waste in our government through DOGE.
But I think one of the biggest ways Musk changed the course of humanity, at least in the immediate, is his purchase of Twitter and his moving the newly named "X" out of San Francisco and into Austin, Texas. When he did, a dramatic shift in society happened, as if a massive fog was lifted off the Western world, and we were seeing things far more clearly than we had.
Twitter had defined reality for so many people for years, to the point where even world leaders, the media, and Dick and Jane defined what was and wasn't true by the narratives seen on the website. Conservatives who were politically tuned in generally knew that what was being served on the website was curated to give weight to leftist narratives and opinions, but I'm not sure the vast majority of people really, truly got it. Even corporations were either influenced or forced to comply with certain narratives to retain good PR with the public.
Musk sat down with Joe Rogan and, in a very interesting segment, effectively noted how insanely influential Twitter was and how it controlled people before he got his hands on it. He notes that Twitter's location in San Francisco, a place so far radicalized toward the left, made the platform something of a force multiplier for leftist narratives, to the point where just a handful of people in one of the most far-leftist places in the world were defining reality for everyone else, from America to Europe.
Elon on JRE just dropped the most brutal red-pill on why Reddit & old Twitter went insane:
— Camus (@newstart_2024) December 3, 2025
“San Francisco is the woke Kool-Aid aquarium. You don’t drink the Kool-Aid — you swim in it. From there, actual centrists look like Nazis.”
He explains how a 20-mile extremist bubble in… pic.twitter.com/hLhyP86scx
He explains how a 20-mile extremist bubble in SF/Berkeley sat on top of the world’s most powerful information weapons (social media) and hijacked them to beam far-left ideology to every phone on Earth.
Looking back, he's absolutely right. Many of you bore witness to "The Twitter Files," which revealed Twitter working alongside the Democrat Party to control narratives, including giving weight to the COVID panic, justifying unnecessary lockdowns, and silencing anyone who made a solid case against both.
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The Hunter Biden laptop story would've changed the course of an election if it had been allowed to populate on the website, but the then former legal chief Vijaya Gadde and head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, labeled stories about it as "unsafe" and "hacked materials," causing the story to effectively vanish from the trending page. People were silenced when they spoke of it through bans and blacklisting, and even DMs were restricted.
Let's not forget that they also banned Donald Trump over an "incitement risk" while he was still president of the United States.
I probably need not remind you of any of this. You likely remember the injustice of it all. The unfairness that conservatives and Republicans had to suffer because these radicals decided to put their thumb on the scale to make Twitter, not reality, but their "truth."
But the scary thing is that it worked. While conservatives knew what Twitter created was a lie because they, themselves, were being silenced, a great many people did not know it was going on, or at least, did not understand the extent. One website effectively controlled global politics for a very long time. Two hundred radicals in San Francisco held the world in their grasp for years.
Musk's purchase of Twitter and freeing speech was so impactful that the left's castle collapsed because it rooted its foundations in Twitter's curated narratives.
Stop and think about that for a second. A group of people in San Francisco effectively controlled the Western world. That should be a massive wake-up call, and while it's great that Musk freed people by revamping the website, it's not the end of the story.
I think AI is going to end up being the new way to do this. While I'm thankful there are multiple AI platforms, including Grok, I think it's important to keep in the back of our mind that it's not difficult to control millions and millions of people, and very little seen online should be trusted. Gen Z especially increasingly relies on AI to answer questions and be conversational companions. It's no longer just looking up news on Google. Everything is delivered to them in an authoritative and personable way.
I fear we may see a new version of the Twitter problem pop up on platforms like ChatGPT, and if there's one thing I've been raising the alarm about, it's the need for people to understand what LLM AI is and what it's not.
It is a fancy word processor that will retrieve information for you, but only from "trusted" news sources, and all of these sources just so happen to be legacy media outlets and Wikipedia.
While Musk may have freed us from Twitter's grasp, the AI race is a whole different monster, but with the same kind of teeth. The information war hasn't been won; the front just shifted.
