Elites bash Elon Musk over his liberation of Twitter on day one of the WEF's meeting of the minders

Plutocrats and technocrats flocked to Davos this week for the World Economic Forum's yearly meeting of the minders. While the resort town quickly filled up with people who frequently talk about changing the world, one individual who has made good on his threats was noticeably missing: South African billionaire Elon Musk.

Musk suggested last month that he declined the invitation to go "not because [he] thought they were engaged in diabolical scheming, but because it sounded boring af lol."

However, Yann Zopf, a spokesman for the WEF, suggested Musk hadn't been invited, telling the Associated Press the last time the Tesla CEO received an invite was "not this year and not recently — last time in 2015."

Comfortable in their Swiss safe place and assured of Musk's absence, so-called elites wasted no time lashing out at the tech tycoon and his liberated social media platform.

Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard professor who supposedly specializes in the history of climate change "disinformation," exhausted carbon complaining to Italian-Swiss physicist and university rector Luciana Vaccaro about Musk's X.

"For a long time I was on Twitter and now it's become such a toxic place that I've concluded it's not a worthwhile place to spend time," said Oreskes. "I have given up on X. What a scary name that even is, right?"

Musk later commented, "X is literally just a letter from the alphabet lmao."

Independent journalist Rukshan Fernando noted that contrary to the Harvard professor's claim that she gave up on X, she "kept coming back."

On Aug. 19, 2023, Oreskes wrote, "Hi all. I have decided, like many others, to leave twitter. It's sad to have to rebuild all that we have built here, but @elonmusk has already dismantled what was good about this network."

Oreskes' self-imposed exile lasted all of a month. She returned on Sept. 27, then proceeded to post semi-regularly for several more weeks.

Vaccaro agreed with Oreskes Monday, saying X is a "toxic environment. ... I have no solution on that, but I think one day it will come the moment of the code of conduct in this place because journalists — if you spread crazy news and insults and if a journalist writes these things, it can be amended."

Vaccaro intimated that troublesome voices have "such big power" on social media because it's still relatively new but suggested "there will be a societal reflection on how information is brought there. Of course on X, now there is also the policy of the owner that is problematic, but I think this is a problem of the society of the future."

Musk, who has helped to expose his platform's previous work with governmental forces to suppress speech, responded on X with a laughing emoji.

It appears that Oreskes and Vaccaro's dislike for the free flow of information on X and elsewhere online is common to other academics, politicians, and bureaucrats associated with the WEF.

Blaze News previously reported that the WEF ranked "misinformation and disinformation" and bad weather as the greatest threats facing humanity in its Global Risks Report 2024.

The report defines misinformation and disinformation as "persistent false information (deliberate or otherwise) widely spread through media networks, shifting public opinion in a significant way towards distrust in facts and authority."

Musk responded to the report last week, writing, "By 'misinformation', WEF means anything that conflicts with its agenda."

The billionaire's conflicts with this "agenda" appear to have made him a target. The European Union announced last month that it had launched an investigation into Musk's X for allegedly disseminating "illegal content and disinformation."

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