While bots and willingly letting fake news spread from agents originating from f.ex russia isn’t even new, that’s happened before elon too.

Yeah, exactly — we’ve seen that bit happen for the past ten years on Facebook. So that is the minimum happening on Twitter.

(I hate that jerk as much as anybody else, but this is seems to far fetched without anything to back it up.)

The link to Eliza AI is sort of a half back-up for the story.

but news stories? If teams at twitter wrote fake news.

Twitter has been hyping Grok AI and the fact that it can sum up the news for you. If that’s the public-facing part, then given the motivations of Elmo, it seems reasonable enough that there’s a shadier privat counterpart.