{"id":19573,"date":"2025-01-08T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19573"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:26:31","slug":"as-elon-musk-embraces-the-far-right-some-of-its-leaders-reject-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19573","title":{"rendered":"As Elon Musk Embraces the Far Right, Some of Its Leaders Reject Him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Musk has fallen out with prominent right-wing Americans who say they are worried that their agenda may be sidelined in favor of his own.<\/p>\n

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When Laura Loomer<\/a>, a far-right activist, regained control of her Twitter account in late 2022, she knew whom to praise for her reinstatement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you, Elon!\u201d she wrote<\/a> to Elon Musk, who had recently bought the social network. In another post<\/a>, Ms. Loomer, who had been booted from the platform in 2018 for writing an anti-Muslim message, complimented Mr. Musk\u2019s commitment to \u201cfree speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Loomer is now sharing a different message about Mr. Musk. She and a prominent group of right-wing figures \u2014 many of whom have enjoyed more visibility on the platform, renamed X \u2014 are increasingly raising alarms about Mr. Musk\u2019s influence over President-elect Donald J. Trump and what they characterize as his willingness to silence critics on his social network.<\/p>\n

Apart from Ms. Loomer, high-profile conservatives including Charlie Kirk and Stephen K. Bannon have started speaking out against Mr. Musk or his policy positions. Batya Ungar-Sargon, the conservative opinion editor of Newsweek, recently called Mr. Musk a \u201cshill\u201d who censors opponents. Mike Davis, a lawyer close to Mr. Trump, told Mr. Musk<\/a> on social media to \u201cstay in your lane.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Their criticism followed X\u2019s moves to suspend or otherwise restrict dozens of accounts that raised concerns about Mr. Musk and blocked links to articles about him, citing violations of its terms of service. Over the weekend, Mr. Musk drew further ire from conservatives for using his X account to attack Nigel Farage, an ally of Mr. Trump and the head of Britain\u2019s far-right Reform UK party.<\/p>\n

Mr. Musk, 53, has rapidly vaporized some of the good will he built with Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters after campaigning heavily for the Republican presidential candidate last year. Some right-wing personalities who championed Mr. Musk\u2019s foray into Republican politics now say they feel deceived and worry that their agenda may be sidelined in favor of his own.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Musk has fallen out with prominent right-wing Americans who say they are worried that their agenda may be sidelined in favor of his own.When Laura Loomer, a far-right activist, regained control of her Twitter account in late 2022, she knew whom to praise for her reinstatement.\u201cThank you, Elon!\u201d she wrote to Elon Musk, who had recently bought the social network. In another post, Ms. Loomer, who had been booted from the platform in 2018 for writing an anti-Muslim message, complimented Mr. Musk\u2019s commitment to \u201cfree speech.\u201dMs. Loomer is now sharing a different message about Mr. Musk. She and a prominent group of right-wing figures \u2014 many of whom have enjoyed more visibility on the platform, renamed X \u2014 are increasingly raising alarms about Mr. Musk\u2019s influence over President-elect Donald J. Trump and what they characterize as his willingness to silence critics on his social network.Apart from Ms. Loomer, high-profile conservatives including Charlie Kirk and Stephen K. Bannon have started speaking out against Mr. Musk or his policy positions. Batya Ungar-Sargon, the conservative opinion editor of Newsweek, recently called Mr. Musk a \u201cshill\u201d who censors opponents. Mike Davis, a lawyer close to Mr. Trump, told Mr. Musk on social media to \u201cstay in your lane.\u201dTheir criticism followed X\u2019s moves to suspend or otherwise restrict dozens of accounts that raised concerns about Mr. Musk and blocked links to articles about him, citing violations of its terms of service. Over the weekend, Mr. Musk drew further ire from conservatives for using his X account to attack Nigel Farage, an ally of Mr. Trump and the head of Britain\u2019s far-right Reform UK party.Mr. Musk, 53, has rapidly vaporized some of the good will he built with Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters after campaigning heavily for the Republican presidential candidate last year. Some right-wing personalities who championed Mr. Musk\u2019s foray into Republican politics now say they feel deceived and worry that their agenda may be sidelined in favor of his own.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19575,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19576,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19573\/revisions\/19576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}