Elon Musk, just appointed advisor to Donald Trump, attacked a senior NATO official on Wednesday, who questioned his management of the social network
Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, head of NATO's military committee, declared at a conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies that he was “very supportive of freedom of expression” but “not necessarily convinced that […] what Mr. Musk is doing at X is the right approach.” He warned against “disinformation and cyberattacks […] that influence elections,” adding that social media “amplifies anything that is created by groups of bots,” accounts powered by computer programs.
“Make Orwell fiction,” wrote Elon Musk in response to the broadcast of a video clip of these remarks on “Guys like him think that 1984 is an instruction manual,” added the billionaire in reference to the famous dystopia by British writer George Orwell, which notably addresses the themes of totalitarianism and mass surveillance against freedom of expression.
Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening that he wanted to entrust the national directorate of Intelligence to Tulsi Gabbard, a 43-year-old former soldier, originally from Hawaii and defector from the Democratic Party. The latter's pro-Russian positions at the start of the conflict in Ukraine caused controversy. Just after the Russian invasion of February 2022, she wrote on Twitter, now X: “This war and this suffering could have been avoided if the administration [de Joe] Biden and NATO had simply taken into account Russia's legitimate concerns about Ukraine's possible entry into NATO.
As a reminder, Wednesday afternoon, during the meeting between Joe Biden and Donald Trump at the White House, the former pleaded for continued American support for Ukraine.
The Ukrainian capital, kyiv, was targeted by a combined Russian missile and drone attack, for the first time in more than two months, as the Ukrainians are losing ground on the front and fear losing US support. United.
Russia has considerably intensified drone raids on kyiv, almost daily since the beginning of October, but combined missile-drone attacks are rare on the capital. In total, six missiles and 90 drones targeted seven Ukrainian regions overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, only one of which is located on the front, the Ukrainian Air Force underlined.
Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 Minutes is mobilized to give you all the information on the conflict. War in Ukraine was declared with Russia's invasion of the country on the night of February 23 to 24, 2022 by decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin. This Thursday is already the 995th day of conflict.
