Elon Musk pisses off Ukrainians. The American tycoon, head of Twitter, but also of SpaceX, which provides Ukraine with the use of its satellite systems via the Pentagon, has relaunched some content that Kiev did not like. Bureau adviser Mykhailo Podolyak attacked Musk on Twitter, accusing him of spreading content from the controversial blog of American journalist Tucker Carlson “with the conspiracy theory that Ukraine itself” caused the Kakhovka dam to explode.
The story is controversial, Moscow and Kiev accuse each other as has been the case for over a year since the Bucha massacre to the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. “Is this proof of utter nonsense or is it that the more absurd the lie, the easier it is to sell?” asked Podolyak, tagging Musk in his tweet. “Russia is undermining the floodgates of the occupied hydroelectric plant and blowing up the Kakhovka dam. Dozens of villages and cities are under water. Animals are dying. People are sitting on the roofs of houses and calling for help. An environmental disaster “Devastating damage to sectors of Ukraine’s energy and agriculture, the risk of severe drought in three regions. However, some world media are asking: ‘Who is to blame? Hard to say’, even though the truth is obvious,” Podolyak wrote.
Musk has been on Ukraine’s side since the beginning of the conflict. Central to Kiev’s resistance is the use of Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite communication service, which the United States provides to Ukrainians for secure communications, but also for satellite information crucial to war tactics and strategy. Musk’s tweet seems to be aimed at responding to the controversy over freedom of expression and social censorship: “It would be great if we had programs on this platform that represented the entire spectrum of politics”, he writes, relaunching the first episode of Tucker on Twitter, the social program from Carlson, a controversial conservative journalist who came out of a thousand Fox News controversies.
Source: IL Tempo
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