Excellent food for thought. A couple thoughts: what role does Musk himself play in this? What narrative role considering his actions from his use of certain language and actions up to and including banning Turkish opposition accounts.
I think the starting point for me would be to ask “Is this the first gazillionaire to influence government, or is this an anomalous situation?”
The medium may have changed and is the message relating to the visibility he has. It doesn’t mean people of means without X accounts weren’t intervening and tipping the scales.
Excellent food for thought. A couple thoughts: what role does Musk himself play in this? What narrative role considering his actions from his use of certain language and actions up to and including banning Turkish opposition accounts.
I think the starting point for me would be to ask “Is this the first gazillionaire to influence government, or is this an anomalous situation?”
The medium may have changed and is the message relating to the visibility he has. It doesn’t mean people of means without X accounts weren’t intervening and tipping the scales.
https://mises.org/library/book/wall-street-banks-and-american-foreign-policy