Man Trolls Elon Musk With Projected Messages on Twitter HQ
A Bay Area man is battling online hate speech while simultaneously trolling Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, by projecting messages on an exterior wall of the firm’s San Francisco headquarters.
A self-described projection activist, Alan Marling first beamed messages on the firm’s Market Street tower in 2017, when Donald Trump and “the company amplified lies and hate speech,” Marling said.
Marling has been outside the company’s offices again in the wake of Musk’s takeover. As recently as Monday night, he projected the message, “Free hate speech,” on the wall with an arrow pointing to Twitter’s sign. ...
... Marling said that if hate speech and white supremacist conspiracy theories are allowed on Twitter, it could drive out people of color, minorities and women.
“Given Elon Musk’s sacking of Twitter moderators, it would appear he wants the social media site to become a megaphone of hate, hostile to anyone who isn’t an overprivileged white man,” Marling added, who said he’s been met with “congratulations online and thumbs-up in the street” for his projections.
Former employees of the firm’s human rights, accessibility experience, communications and curation departments have shared that they were either let go or their departments were dissolved.
Marling believes that social media companies wish to be seen as public forums and cultivators of free speech, but says they are in fact private companies, without moral compasses, each trying to turn a profit. ...
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