‘Amuse’ has Elon Musk’s ear. Who is behind that account?

Interview with Zeve Sanderson, executive director of New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics, March 7, 2025
Email interview with Sarah Jackson, professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center, March 6, 2025
Email interview with Gordon Pennycook, professor of psychology at Cornell University, March 6, 2025
Email interview with Darren Linvill, a communication professor at Clemson University and co-director of the Watt Family Innovation Center Media Forensics Hub, March 5, 2025
Email interview with Josephine Lukito, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and Media, March 11, 2025
Email interview with V.S. Subrahmanian, a computer science professor at Northwestern University, Feb. 10, 2025
Email interview with Visar Berisha, the associate dean of research and commercialization at Arizona State University, Feb. 12, 2025
Email interview with Siwei Lyu, a computer science and engineering professor at the University at Buffalo, Feb. 12, 2025
Email exchange with United States Patent and Trademark Office spokesperson, Feb. 13, 2025
Email interview with Shoichi Iwasaki, professor emeritus of Asian languages and cultures, Feb. 13, 2025
Email exchange with Noriko Mori-Kolbe , a senior lecturer of Japanese at Georgia Southern University, Feb. 18, 2025
Email interview with Susanna Fessler, professor of Japanese Studies in the department of East Asian Studies at the State University of New York’s University at Albany, Feb. 20, 2025
Email exchange with Jennifer Pryor, a Dallas Police Department officer, Feb. 13, 2025
Amuse Bio Link, accessed Feb. 10, 2025
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Amuse Substack profile, accessed Feb. 11, 2025
Amuse Substack, “On X, Truth Finds a Voice While Legacy Media Crumbles,” Dec. 28, 2025
Amuse on X’s YouTube account, accessed Feb. 10, 2025
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ToyoYukimura’s Redbubble shop, accessed Feb. 11, 2025
ToyoYukimura’s Redbubble shop, Politique Republic Logo Sticker, accessed Feb. 11, 2025
Toyotomi Yukimura’s Instagram account, accessed Feb. 11, 2025
Amuse on X’s YouTube channel, “#TeamAmber • We are family Ft Dr. Evil,” May 20, 2022
Newsweek, Putin’s Rare Comments Could Be New War Strategy, June 15, 2023
Amuse’s X post, Jan. 9, 2023
Jonathan Turley’s blog, Twitter permanently bans Paul Sperry after posting on the Mar-A-Lago raid, Aug. 12, 2022
Amuse on X’s Substack, Twitter Operated a Modern-Day Star Chamber Working at the Behest of the Government to Silence ‘Dangerous’ Speech from People like Paul Sperry [UPDATED], Aug. 10, 2022
Andrew L. Sullivan’s Substack, Indy Journalist Cracks Progressive Narratives, July 26, 2022
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Toyotomi Yukimura’s Redbubble shop, amuse on ?, accessed Feb. 11, 2025
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Elon Musk’s X post, Feb. 11, 2025
Search for “@amuse” in Elon Musk’s X posts, March. 21, 2025
PolitiFact, Do Elon Musk and DOGE have power to cut spending, close agencies? Feb. 7, 2025
PolitiFact, No, this photo does not show fallen Army pilot posing with Biden, Feb. 3, 2025
PolitiFact, Dean Phillips didn’t win the NH primary. He said so himself. Jan. 26, 2024
OpenSea, ToyotomiYukimura profile, accessed Feb. 13, 2025
Toyotomi Yukimura’s provisional patent NFT, accessed Feb. 13, 2025
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Amuse on X Substack, INFOGRAPHIC: Crossfire Hurricane Raid Timeline, Aug. 20, 2022
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Amazon, Unicorn – The Startup Founder’s Guide to Raising Venture Capital, accessed March 17, 2025
Target, Sous Vide Science – by Alexander Muse (Paperback), Feb. 14, 2025
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D Magazine, Serial Entrepreneur Sells Architel, Launches Sumo Ventures, June 13, 2016
The Dallas Morning News, With another exec out at Tech Wildcatters, some worry about future of the startup accelerator, June 24, 2016
The Dallas Business Journal, Exclusive: ViewMarket makes another acquisition to pair with CultureMap, Dec. 21, 2015
The Dallas Business Journal, Exclusive: ViewMarket buys CultureMap in deal valued at $15M, April 8, 2015
The Guardian, How did Donald Trump end up posting Taylor Swift deepfakes? Aug. 26, 2024
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PolitiFact, Social media posts mislead about Michigan voter rolls and election fraud, Oct. 23, 2024
Amuse Substack about page, accessed Feb. 20, 2025
Reuters, Family comes first: Japan to switch order of names in victory for tradition, Sept. 6, 2019
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Voice of America, USAGM announces Kari Lake as special adviser, Feb. 27, 2025
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Amuse X post, Oct. 2, 2024
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Amuse X post, Jan. 19, 2023
Amuse X post, March 17, 2025
Amuse X post, March 19, 2025
AFP Fact Check, Posts misrepresent UN position on sex between adults and minors, April 24, 2023
AFP Fact Check, Hunter Biden rent conspiracy theory shared by conservative lawmakers, Jan. 25, 2023
AFP Fact Check, No proof for claim Karine Jean-Pierre drove while intoxicated, April 5, 2023
AFP Fact Check, Old Mexican bridge crossing video misrepresented online, May 11, 2023
Snopes, No, Biden Did Not Board ‘Empty Plane’ After Prisoner Exchange with Russia, Aug. 2, 2024
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The Rabbit Hole X account, archived March 2, 2025
Catturd™️X account, archived March 3, 2025
The Rolling Stone, Who Is @Catturd2, the Sh-tposting King of MAGA Twitter? Feb. 9, 2023
Elon Musk’s repost of Catturd, accessed March 11, 2025
Business Insider, Trump keeps retweeting the anonymous account ‘Catturd2,’ which backs his baseless election-fraud claims. The handle is now trending, Dec. 1, 2020
Brookings, How hate and misinformation go viral: A case study of a Trump retweet, Sept. 2, 2020
The Associated Press, Bot or not? Mystery over anonymous user retweeted by Trump, Dec. 30, 2019
Fortune, Donald Trump’s Social Media Ties to White Supremacists, March 22, 2016
NPR, From 4chan to international politics, a bug-eating conspiracy theory goes mainstream, April 2, 2023
Corporate Finance Associates, CFA Announces Acquisition of Architel by Centre Technologies, Aug. 20, 2013
Elon Musk’s repost of Catturd, Feb. 19, 2025
Elon Musk’s repost of Catturd, March 11, 2025
Business Insider Africa, Trump keeps retweeting the anonymous account ‘Catturd2,’ which backs his baseless election-fraud claims. The handle is now trending, Dec. 1, 2020
Media Matters, Twitter has allowed one user to manipulate the platform by coordinating over 40 hashtags, seemingly in violation of policy, Dec. 10, 2021
Catturd X post, Nov. 11, 2024
Amuse on X Substack, The World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab REALLY Cannot Take a Joke [UPDATED], edited March 3, 2023
Elon Musk’s X post, March 9, 2025
Elon Musk’s X post, Feb. 23, 2025
The Associated Press, Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information, April 6, 2024
U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Education Initiates Reduction in Force, March 11, 2025
Elon Musk’s X post, March 17, 2025
The Dallas Morning News, Catching up with Dallas entrepreneur Alexander Muse, May 9, 2013
Phoenix New Times, Kari Lake’s new job: firing federal employees without authority, March 17, 2025
National Education Association, 2024 Reports Educator Pay in America, accessed April 18, 2024
Rand, Teacher Well-Being and Intentions to Leave in 2024, June 18, 2024
Truth Social, Donald Trump’s Truth Social post, Aug. 18, 2024




