• rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    We completely changed how the algorithm worked, pushing pro-Trump and right-wing posts to the top of people’s feeds.

    I thought this was common knowledge. Users have been talking about how everyone is getting flooded with right-wing posts on r/twitter ever since Elon took over.

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      1 day ago

      Yap, same here, when I was still using it. Over the course of months, my normal feeds (mostly funny stuff) disappeared and slowly got replaced with right wing conspiracy bullshit

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      1 day ago

      This also explains why he changed the name to a non-descriptive name of X.

      Propaganda/information warfare 101, you want the name of your agent spreading disinformation to be as vague and as ambiguous as possible in the people’s discourse in general.

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        1 day ago

        that’s a bit much, i mean he’s been obsessed with the idea of “X” since the 90s. his first company was called x dot com, he made the space company he bought change their name to space x, the most gimmicky car he could persuade Tesla to build in the early days was the model x, he has like seven x wives…