Elon Musk’s X Empire-building, a Trojan Horse to Rule us All

by Dan Fournier, Opinion, published Monday, July 24, 12:35 EDT on fournier.substack.com

Introduction Rant

We’ve seen this coming for a while now. I was hoping it wouldn’t be so soon, but here we are.

I knew that at the price Musk bought Twitter, $44 billion or so, there was a much bigger agenda at play.

Elon Musk is about to sell us all out to the globalists and intel agencies – as if he weren’t already; but this time, it is more POW in your face!

I left Facebook years ago because I didn’t at all like what they were doing with my personal data (sharing, spying, selling, etc.) and also despised what they were allowing in terms of child-abuse – encouraging pedos, even that many years ago. So, leaving Twitter won’t be a biggie for me, especially given my measly 600 or so followers.

It’s more that I am getting r-e-a-l tired of these obvious power-grabs that are nothing less than herding the sheep into yet another prison enclosure.  

Past Attacks (on Substack) and Future Ones

Spinless Musk was terrified when Substack came out with Notes last April. He essentially banned tweets that linked to them by dis-activating the automatic image load to the Substack article in the tweet image area. Without this image, people are less likely to click on the linked article (that is just the mechanics of us sheeple people).

He also prevented the embedding of tweets into Substack posts, which do still work for YouTube videos in comparison.

Each time I tweeted about one of my new articles to promote it, I had to manually select the main image for the tweet. While annoying, it was manageable. But what is more annoying is my “Tweet this article” link I put at the end of each of my pieces. I do this so it could get more exposure; but, if people do use it, they won’t get the image for my article in their tweet. Without the image, it really kills true exposure and the possibility of people clicking on the article to view it.

This repelled key figures such as journalist Matt Taibi from the Twitter platform, despite him having a huge following.

The attack on Substack caught the attention of the likes of Jeffrey Tucker from the Brownstone Institute who stated the following on the matter:

“This came as a devastating shock to many of our best independent writers and thinkers who have found a home on Substack. They gain followers on Twitter and post their material, which inspires subscriptions and makes it possible for them to have a life and means of support. Without that ability, many careers will be devastated.”

The point with the paragraphs above, is that if Elon Musk has done this for his insecurity of having a modicum of competition against his product, just imagine how he will use his power in the future to kill any other competitor.

Moreover, he is doing all these changes to Twitter without consulting the masses on the platform. This demonstrates a very dictatorial style of management – which he likely learned from doing business in China rubbing shoulders with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials.

Meet Elon, the covert World Economic Forum (WEF) foot soldier.  

While Musk wants to provide the illusions of publicly distancing himself from the WEF, his allegiance to the fascist globalist outfit couldn’t be clearer; for, so many of his stances and projects align perfectly with those of the WEF.

While I cannot independently verify the claim that Elon Musk was a WEF Young Global Leader (Class of 2008) since the purported article is behind a Bloomberg paywall (which I refuse to donate one penny to), it certaintly would not be surprising.

Last May, he announced that he had hired Linda Yaccarino to replace him as CEO of Twitter.

Linda Yaccarino speaking at the World Economic Forum. Photo source: netzwoche.

Yaccarino is a renowned advertising executive and WEF contributor.

As Paul Joseph Watson notes, she was most likely hired to bring back woke advertisers to the platform, and was an avid Covid-19 vaccine pusher.  

X is Tencent 2.0

For those unfamiliar with Tencent, let me enlighten you, for I have worked inside their halls for more than two years while I was teaching in China until November of 2021.

Dan Fournier photographed with one of his students from Tencent (a top-level manager who later became the Marketing V.P. for KFC in China), June 2020.

Firstly though, and just to be clear, I must stress that the hundreds of students I have taught at Tencent, including top-level managers who report directly to the CEO, are very kind, gifted, and talented individuals. I have very fond memories of my time spent with them, have learned a lot from their insights, and have nothing negative to say about any single one of them. They were wonderful students and people in general, not to mention extremely hard-working.

In a nutshell, Tencent is a huge tech conglomerate which also happens to be the biggest gaming company in the world (by assets and games). Its headquarters is located in the southern metropolis of Shenzhen, China, where I resided for 13 years.

Tencent’s Headquarters in Shenzhen, China. Photograph taken by Dan Fournier in April of 2021.

Tencent employs over 100,000 employees worldwide and its main company divisions are organised as follows:

I have taught students in each of these divisions. The WXG (Weixin Group) refers to their WeChat division which is arguably their most important group.

WeChat is their all-encompassing super-App which is most likely serving as the model for Elon Musk’s X app.

Broadly speaking, WeChat is a very intuitive, and easy-to-use app which provides countless conveniences to its billion plus users – who are mostly Chinese. It is not an exaggeration to say that without the app, it is very difficult to function in Chinese society.

In China, citizens do EVERYTHING with it, including playing games, chatting with friends, ordering food (Meituan), hailing a Didi (ride-sharing service similar to Uber), and paying for goods and services, among many other things.

Basically, all apps of importance are integrated into the Tencent/WeChat ecosystem, similar to apps under the Apple Store ecosystem.

Virtually nobody uses the Chinese CBDC in the Middle Kingdom. They either use Wechat Pay or AliPay for about 99% of their payments. Cash is very much shunned upon. Whenever I presented the 100 Yuan note to taxi drivers, they stared me down with evil eyes and most didn’t have change anyway.

Wechat also was central to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Every citizen and foreigner living in China, such as myself, had to download a contact-tracing app which was used to enter residential communities, public buildings, workplaces, supermarkets, malls, you name it. Without the QR code on your app showing green (i.e., not having come into contact with an infected person, or being infected yourself), you would basically have to be placed in either quarantine facility, or in isolation in your home until it reverted back to green.

In my previous 6-part The Covid-19 – Holocaust Comparison series, I noted the following:

“During the Covid-19 Pandemic, it was impossible to move about without the vaccine passport program installed on one’s smartphone. A red-colored QR code banned anyone from entry to areas outside their residential communities.

In fact, in 2022 the Chinese government intentionally switched certain citizens’ QR codes to red who were attending protests (about their funds being stolen from a certain bank). As most of those protesters were from out of province and wanted to protest in another, their movements were effectively impeded since they could not travel outside their home area.

As can be seen in the video below, such a feature could easily be used (and abused) by central authorities to crush dissenters or those deemed to have committed certain infractions.

Who is to say that the authorities will not use this kind of feature for those they deem are spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation” online or who are critical of their politics?”

As you can see, the potential for abuse is quite apparent. Such restrictions won’t be limited to pandemics. They will likely be used to crush dissenters who spread “conspiracy theories”, “misinformation”, and “disinformation.” (notice the intentional quotes, for these are what they are)

Perhaps the best way I can convey to the reader the manner in which one Super App – such as X – can metastasise into a monstrous corporate entity, is to link to a documentary video about Tencent which will give you a glimpse into the dystopian future. The documentary is called The Secret Chinese Company That Owns Everything and can be viewed hereunder.

Having lived in China for over a decade, used Wechat, and trained Tencent’s staff, I can assure you that they documentary presented above is not fiction, but rather provides an honest account of the company. On caveat, however. I did mention above that the hundreds of employees I taught at the Chinese tech firm were decent and honest people void of any malicious intent.

That being said, when a company grows to such a powerful stature, it becomes inevitable that it will be largely beholden to the clasps of the government.

In China, the government is the most powerful entity. If they force Tencent to do something – such as handover all data on a given user or entity – it must oblige.

While I have heard from numerous top-level managers that Pony (the nickname of Tencent’s low-key chairman and co-founder Ma Huateng) values strict user privacy, the simple fact is that in China companies must oblige to the whims of the CCP. 

Beholden to the CCP

To fully understand Elon Musk, the reader must know about his presence in China – particularly with his flagship company Tesla.

Tesla has a gigantic super factory based in Shanghai.

Photograph of Tesla’s “gigafactory” in Shanghai. Image source: Project Management Institute.

One does not do any business in China if one does not totally comply and submit to the directives and whims of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Having intimately studied the culture first-hand and taught at various companies in China, including State-owned enterprises, I can assure you that everything a company does must be in accordance to the plans and policies of the CCP.

Most companies have a CCP-representative office on their premises with staff to verify that their operations do not counter any policies, principles, and values of the CCP; I have seen these first-hand – including some negative consequences experienced by them for not doing so.

To think that things may be different with Tesla is to be naïve, to say the least.

Elon Musk has had many meetings with CCP officials to get his permits and run his EV empire in the world’s largest automobile marketplace. As such, he has had to submit to their will and, by law, must provide full access to his company servers (see also here and here). This is the law for all companies operating in China. The CCP has access to and can consult all employee and customer information, along with all intellectual property, trade secrets, patents, and so on held by the company.

I don’t believe it is speculation to think that Elon would eventually like to expand his X empire to the single largest market in the world. No doubt, he wouldn’t be able to compete with Tencent’s Wechat, but a man with such audaciousness coupled with a massive ego would certainly try.

Should such an ambitious endeavour bear fruit, he would have to submit everything surrounding it to the CCP. And by everything, I mean all user data. This is not conjecture, but rather standard operating procedure in the People’s Republic of China.

Concluding Rant

There has already been a lot of controversy surrounding how ByteDance’s TikTok in America already provide the CCP access to their user data (see here, here, and here) in addition to the shady algorithms that shape users’ thoughts and behaviors.

This twofold problem would undoubtedly permeate in the X ecosystem.

First, the level of social engineering that would occur behind the X app itself and throughout the entire ecosystem as a whole could have tremendous consequences on shaping users’ thoughts and behaviours.

Secondly, amassing gargantuan amounts of personal information about its users would leave them quite vulnerable to exploits. Look no further than with Facebook (and how it acquiesced to the DOJ & FBI in years late) and Amazon (and how Jeff Bezos’ empire is in bed with the intelligence agencies) for prime examples in this regard.

All these vulnerabilities would be added incrementally over many years so as to not make them apparent whilst sucking in users to the many “conveniences” the matriX will bring.

And several years down the line, it will become increasingly difficult for X users to disconnect from the ecosystem, as is the currently case with Facebook and WeChat.

We must also not forget about the thousands of LEO satellites from his Starlink company (from Elon’s SpaceX) which will eventually dragnet the masses . Who is to say he won’t force or make it a requirement for all X users to use his Starlink service?

Though a lot of what I presented is of my own personal opinion and may appear as pure speculation to many, the fact remains that we have precedent for all of this.

Moreover, to think that it would be different with Elon is idiotic, at best. Look at his already shady track record with Twitter as was described earlier in this post. Don’t listen to what people say, but rather look at the actions they take.

Musk has shown his true colors in just a short period of time after having acquired Twitter. 

His actions with the platform, thus far, while they may appear to be more open and less prone to censorship, have proven me right.

Do you really think he wouldn’t pull a fast one on us once we are sucked into his matriX?

Fool me once, shame on you…

Addendum: July 25, 2023 - Key related Resources on Elon Musk and X

Coincidentally, many of my subscribers are also subscribed to the 2nd Smartest Guy in the World Substack - perhaps we align on certain kinds of materials; who knows?

Anyhow this Substack exposed Elon Musk’s X Psy-Op way back in April and just re-posted (July 24) an update article PSYOP-MUSK UPDATE: Twitter is Rebranded "X" Ahead of the X Everything App Social Credit Score Dystopia to highlight his previous, excellent, work on the matter. I strongly recommend for you to have a look at all his notes in this post and to also have a read at the linked posts.

Here is one example of a linked post - REPOST: Elon Musk Officially Takes Over Twitter in the Latest "Genius" Con - which states “Musk’s entire agenda is that of the WEF; to wit:”

Another of the linked posts is a video from James Corbett on Musk. It is from October 18, 2022 (Episode 429) and is titled Meet Elon Musk, Technocratic Huckster. You can view it from Corbett’s website or via Bitchute and Rumble.

The hour-long video by Corbett is highly informative and definitely worth the watch. In one segment, Corbett does an excellent job of displaying, side-by-side, how Elong Musks stances and projects align perfectly with those of the WEF (as I mentioned earlier).

If you are pressed for time, at least watch his hilarious intro (first few minutes) where Corbett mimmicks a typical “Johnny YouTube” type who hypes all of Elon’s moves like a crazed mind-controlled lunatic. So funny!

The third resource that is worth a look is the Wikispooks page for Elon Musk, for it contains some interesting tidbits that you will not find in Musk’s polished Wikipedia page.

An extract of note from the Wikispooks page reveals some interesting information about Musk’s technocrat grandfather, Joshua Haldeman:

Musk was born and grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. His grandfather was Joshua Haldeman, who in the 1930s led the Canadian branch of the Technocracy movement.^[5]

The cited source [5] points to a Technocracy News & Trends piece Historian: Elon Musk Was Shaped By Technocrat Grandfather, Science Fiction which provides some possible roots to Elon’s technocratic leanings and how his grandfather tried to start a technocratic political party in Canada:

In the 1930s, Haldeman led the Canadian branch of the Technocracy movement,  when “technocrat” meant something very different from a bland centrist politician. Then, it was a uniformed movement that marched under the Monad, or yin and yang, symbol, aiming to replace democracy with a society led by engineers. According to Lepore, Haldeman’s politics may have been his key bequest to his grandson.

Believing that science and technology could cure all ills, Haldeman campaigned for the capitalist monetary infrastructure to be replaced by a new universal currency, based on a unit of heat, to be known as the erg. The technocrats even wanted an end to prices, in the view that scientists could handle distribution within society far better than the market.

Such concepts seemed dangerous to the Canadian government, which banned the movement over its opposition to World War 2. The belief system faded away with the growth of prosperity after the war. But similar ideas are inspiring the current excitement over meme stocks, cryptocurrency and the man who now calls himself “Technoking”.

Addendum: August 1, 2023 - And the Chinese-style CENSORSHIP Begins!

Well, that didn’t take long!

Twitter, sorry….X has already begun its Chinese-style censorship of accounts who deviate from the WEF and Powers-that-ought-not-be narratives and cattle lanes.

In one recent instance, they axed the account of Canadian Muslim Kamel El-Cheikh who recently started a movement to unite all Canadians parents regardless of their ethnicity or religious affiliations against the indoctrination and grooming of children which are often linked with LGBTQ+ groups and agendas.

His message and movement to get Canadians to peacefully unite and assemble was just too much for those in power to handle, for they much prefer a populous that is divided.

While it is not entirely clear why Kamel El-Cheikh account was terminated, in a recent interview with Clyde do Something, there was mention that it could have emanated from the Canadian Liberal government who used C-11 as a basis for the removal.

Moreover, it appears that no valid reason has been given for the termination of the account.

The lack of a reason provided to Kamel El-Cheikh by X (formelly known as Twitter) demonstrates that the platform does now indeed espouse Chinese-style censorship, as is the case with all social media linked to the WeChat app.

This is a taste of things to come under Elon Musk’s – sorry, I really mean under his overlords at the World Economic Forum and elsewhere – new platform where users will be eXterminated at will.

Prepare accordingly.

Addendum: August 8, 2023 - And now, the THEFT begins…

Well, that didn’t think long again folks.

Apart from the aforementioned censorship and fascist behaviour of CIA-operative Elon Musk, he is now taking it upon himself (or, is he following the orders of his fascist overlords?) to STEAL the accounts of those who have been on the original Twitter platform for years.

Jeremy Vaught had owned the @music account for many years, having amassed nearly half a million users. And all of a sudden, just like that, POUF, X seized his account without any discussion, recourse, or compensation. What an utterly disgusting, immoral, and disrespectful slap in the face.

Here is Vaughts’ tweet on the matter (obviously from a different account) followed by the very insensitive and lame “official response” by the fascists at X:

This is yet another reason not to get too invested in this new devious X platform of technocratic tyranny.

It is just a matter of time before I myself depart, which is a damn shame; for, in its original form Twitter was a pretty decent online town square for honest and open exchanges. Now and going forward, not so much.

If you do not submit to the technocratic transhumanist “god” in Elon Musk and his CIA and Satanic overlords, you will be flushed in a flash just like a piece of dirt.

Welcome to techno-fascism folks, fitted for the interent and transhumanist age.

Addendum: October 14, 2023 - CIA Elon shows his allegiance to Freemasonry and their Satanic agenda

On October 14, 2023, Elon musk showed his allegiance to the Freemason Satanic agenda with his tweet (archived here) which I responded to (archived here).

My response to Freemason[-loving] Elon:

As Confucius put it so eloquently over 2,500 years ago in China:

And his equally brilliant contemporary Sun Tzu - author of The Art of War, so famously said:

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