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How Elon Musk allowed X to become a stalwart platform for Trump supporters.
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this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
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Not to deflect blame from Musk, but Jack was just as bad. He openly let Trump ignore the rules and TOS of the website because it got more ad revenue into the site. Trump said the most asinine, racist, sexist, queerphobic, ablest bullshit, but who gives a shit when he's the President?! He got suspended when he made Jan 6th happen. Everything before then was cool because it never got enough bad press.
Musk made it worse, but Jack is why it was possible in the first place. Jack banned leftists saying queer rights are more important than cishet feelings. Jack banned BIPOC from commenting on white people being openly racist and using slurs, but you called them a cracker once, you get perma-banned.
Fuck Twitter, Fuck Musk, Fuck Jack.
There are legal complications with silencing a sitting US president. Before Elon, Twitter struggled to contextualize and mitigate the damage. After Elon, the "damage" got artificially boosted to the top of the feed.
I had to leave Twitter because of right wing Nazi harassment. It was bad before Musk, but it used to be possible to report and remove bad actors. After Musk, reports were DOA.
It's not a 1st Amendment violation, and every president has the ability to communicate tot the public 24/7. At least when Windrow Wilson had his 3 AM racist thoughts it wasn't able to get out fast enough for the press secretary to try and bury the lead.
You don’t get to being the CEO of a large company without being an asshole of one type or another, and outrage drives views and clicks.
Soooo…. You get what you incentivise.
yup, and both bluesky and threads will be/are exactly as bad, too.
Yeah. Twitter has always been a shit show, under Mush it just gets more unhinged and right-winged.
Correct, but at least the prior management cared about running a social media site. EM is actively making it worse than it was. I am losing no sleep thinking about it in a time when people are blaming all the social ills on X.
Its position in the cultural zeitgeist will not change until people make the move to Threads, Mastodon, and BlueSky. That is not happening overnight.