Under Elon Musk’s leadership of Twitter, tweets linking LGBT people to “grooming” have sky-rocketed, jumping 119 percent since Musk’s takeover in October 2022, according to a new report.
These five accounts alone are set to generate $6.4 million a year in advertising revenue for Twitter, CCDH researchers estimated. They found ads from big-name companies like Disney, T-Mobile, Kindle, and the NBA appeared next to explicitly anti-LGBT “groomer” tweets on these accounts, according to the report.
Over the last three years, far-right commentators and anti-LGBT activists have amplified a “grooming” narrative, which falsely suggests LGBT people are pedophiles and accuses them of “grooming” children for abuse. The “grooming” narrative has become a right-wing touchstone, animating campaigns to ban LGBT books from libraries, pass anti-trans legislation aimed at minors, and protest drag shows.
For her part, Raichik has called LGBT rights a “cult and it’s so captivating,” in an appearance on Tucker Carlson in December last year, “They’re just evil people and they want to groom kids. They’re recruiting.”
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