[giarc]

Bingo. What's amazing to me is how fast the sentiment can change by his follows (or Trumps followers). Musk simply tweets that "XYZ agency if criminal" and all of a sudden you see tons of comments across the internet that "XYZ agency needs to go" "It's been so corrupt for so long". These agencies have existed forever, but all of a sudden tens of millions of people have these opinions on it? They don't actually know the first thing about how it works, but because some billionaire with a large following says so, they believe it.

[AnimalMuppet]

Do all these people have opinions on it? Or is most of that support astroturf?

[ModernMech]

A lot of these are bots.

[giarc]

100%, however, you see interviews with real life supporters and they have already printed shirts that espouse this new view and when you hear them talk about it, they talk with so much conviction that you think this would be a long held belief.

Musk could say "the sky is green" and millions of people would support it.