Has Musk lived up to his pronouncement after buying Twitter?
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It's nice to be able to say I have no fvcking clue. Didn't "use" Twitter before Musk and still don't after. That said, I don't think his requirement to upset the left and right equally is a necessary condition to be politically neutral.
Musk and the posts he forces X users to view seem politically neutral.
Twitter has always been a cess-pool. However, at the end of 2020, it started to make steps toward improvement and actually moderating disinformation. Then Elon came along, axed popular figure verication and replaced it with a subscription model to amplify messaging.
Now it's absolutely overrun with people paying to spread disinformation and every comment section is only fans advertisement.
The dude found a way to make twitter even worse than it was.
Was Hitler the bad guy? Who’s to say?
It’s just one of those questions we’ll never know the answer to.
Not really sure. But since he's taken over it has turned into an even bigger cluster**** of idiots. I've also discovered a few users that my account was following, without me ever following them. I've always wondered how exactly that happens, because they were accounts that I know I would never choose to follow.
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but the changes at Twitter and Facebook really upset some people. Facebook has a long ways to go, still, but Twitter went straight to Q'Anon territory under Musk. Almost like some shady rich guys with impure motives wanted to invest $40 billion in a public misinformation operation.
hawkeyetraveler
HB Heisman
The far right has adopted Elon as its long lost son (or maybe vice versa?). He has swung X to the right. It is not a neutral platform IMO.
Depends if the algorithms are giving right wing stuff a boost that they don't give to left wing.
Elon himself obviously pines for the right.
I don't think he's far right as much as nutty right.
hawkeyetraveler
HB Heisman
Nutty right is probably the best description. He has autocratic far right tendencies, he has a right wing LGBTQ stance, but his economic stance is more mainstream and he does believe in climate change and a few other traditionally liberal stances.
