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Some fun facts for banksy. Some competitive nazi salutes for the incredibly stupid 😆

YouTube: Democrats Giving the Nazi Salute (360NewsClips)

The Twitter Files (internal documents released after Musk’s acquisition) documented real problems: heavy internal moderation that disproportionately limited certain viewpoints (especially on COVID origins/policy, the Hunter Biden laptop story, and some election-related claims), extensive flagging and pressure from U.S. government agencies (FBI, DHS, and White House officials under Biden), and a culture that often treated progressive institutional consensus as the default boundary of acceptable speech. Biden administration officials were particularly aggressive in pressing platforms on COVID “misinfo.” Requests came from both parties, but the volume and ideological tilt of enforcement in 2020–2022 leaned against right-leaning or heterodox views.

Operationally it survived and remains culturally/politically potent with a large user base. Aggressive cost discipline kept it viable, and the pivot into the xAI/SpaceX ecosystem reframed it as infrastructure for AI rather than a pure social media cash cow. For Musk’s broader portfolio it has strategic utility; as a standalone Twitter-like business it has not returned to (or exceeded) its prior commercial peak.
Success depends on the metric: influence and survival—yes; financial return on the original Twitter asset and fulfillment of early commercial projections—no. The platform is leaner, more polarized, more AI-integrated, and embedded in a different corporate structure than the one Musk bought.

Musk rejected the Nazi interpretation, posting that critics “need better dirty tricks” and that “the ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.” He and supporters framed the motion as an enthusiastic, heartfelt gesture of gratitude (“my heart goes out to you”) rather than a political symbol. No public evidence shows him explicitly endorsing Nazism or intending the gesture as a Sieg Heil; the surrounding speech was about thanking Trump supporters and optimistic future-oriented rhetoric.

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