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Nils Wilcke
@paul_denton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Le compte Cerfia sur X repris par Stérin et scruté par l'Elysée pour sa force de frappe va désormais éviter les commentaires anti-Trump et de cibler d'autres médias ou journalistes amis "comme Hanouna et Frontières…", écrit le responsable Benjamin Fayel. En avril, demande a été faite de relayer l'augmentation des baptêmes catholiques en France chez les adultes et les ados... https://www.lalettre.fr/fr/medias_audiovisuel/2025/08/27/les-dessous-de-la-reprise-en-main-de-cerfia-l-influent-compte-x-lie-a-pierre-edouard-sterin%2C110514940-eve

#Politique#Medias#Influence#Presidentielle#Sterin#ExtremeDroite#Twitter#Trump
Nils Wilcke
@paul_denton@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Le compte Cerfia sur X repris par Stérin et scruté par l'Elysée pour sa force de frappe va désormais éviter les commentaires anti-Trump et de cibler d'autres médias ou journalistes amis "comme Hanouna et Frontières…", écrit le responsable Benjamin Fayel. En avril, demande a été faite de relayer l'augmentation des baptêmes catholiques en France chez les adultes et les ados... https://www.lalettre.fr/fr/medias_audiovisuel/2025/08/27/les-dessous-de-la-reprise-en-main-de-cerfia-l-influent-compte-x-lie-a-pierre-edouard-sterin%2C110514940-eve

#Politique#Medias#Influence#Presidentielle#Sterin#ExtremeDroite#Twitter#Trump
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last month

But #Musk’s order, which hasn’t previously been reported, is the first known instance of the billionaire actively [& personally] shutting off #Starlink coverage over a battlefield during the conflict. The decision shocked some Starlink employees & effectively reshaped the front line of the fighting, enabling #Musk to take “the outcome of a war into his own hands,” another one of the three people said.

#power #corruption #oligarchy
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

…#Musk’s order was an early glimpse of the #power the magnate now wields in #geopolitics & #GlobalSecurity because of #Starlink, a fast-growing #satellite internet service that barely existed early this decade & now provides connectivity even in remote areas of the world. Even before his brief role as donor & advisor to #Trump, Starlink’s success–& the unrivaled connectivity it offers across the planet–had given Musk increasing #influence w/political leaders, governments & militaries worldwide.
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

…#Musk held forth on the patio on a variety of topics: his visit to the US–Mexico border; the war in Ukraine; his frustrations w/govt #regulations hindering his rocket company, #SpaceX; & Ramaswamy’s highest priority, the dismantling of the #FederalBureaucracy.

Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a #technology challenge. He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter,…the key was gaining access to the…servers.

#law#Technocracy#Trump#USpol
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

Wouldn’t it be great, #Musk offered, if he had #access to the #computers of the #FederalGovernment?

Just give him the passwords, he said jocularly, & he would make the govt fit & trim.

What started as musings at a dinner party evolved into a #radical takeover of the #FederalBureaucracy. It was driven with a frenetic focus by Musk, who channeled his #libertarian impulses & resentment of #regulatory #oversight of his vast #business holdings into a singular position of #influence.

#law#Trump