Tangent
The near-trillionaire shared several posts praising the film, suggesting that efforts to ban the movie are causing a “Streisand Effect” and further boosting its reach on the internet. Musk also reshared posts by people buying the movie on Amazon’s digital video-on-demand service, praising segments of the film or highlighting its 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, even though it has seen only a handful of critic reviews from major publications.
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Chief Critic
One of the few film critic reviews of “Citizen Vigilante” was posted by Variety earlier this week, which notes its lead character is “xenophobic and entitled as the broadest American stereotype, gnashing his teeth over foreign bogeymen and wagging his silencer-ed handgun at perceived offenders.”
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Key Background
Earlier this month, Musk came under fire from leaders in Europe during the riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which spiraled from anti-immigrant protests following a stabbing attack allegedly committed by a Sudanese migrant. In a , the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate pointed out that three posts by Musk about the riots garnered more than 115 million views and accused him of using the incident to “amplify violent migrant narratives inspiring calls for violence, with little apparent consequence on the platform.”
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