“Think about pre-Musk Twitter.
If you strayed from the outrageous lies and saccharine platitudes about gender and race and crime and immigration by tweeting government statistics and peer-reviewed scientific studies, you got a notice from the site saying you had engaged in "hate speech" and then you got suspended or banned.
So there you were, tweeting the best and most reliable data available, from unimpeachable sources, and you were essentially being called a bad person. You knew your data were accurate, and they knew your data were accurate. None of that mattered.
But it's not just that data and scientific information were being suppressed, the site's algo was actively pushing the most astonishing evidence-free and easy-to-refute misinformation across the platform about topics like race and crime, and there was nothing you could do about it because if you attempted to refute any of it swarms of hall monitors would report you to Twitter's "safety" bureaucrats.
Eventually, you just gave up. I did, and maybe you did, too. "Powerless" doesn't even begin to describe how a lot of us felt.”