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.
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
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.
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…
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.
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
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.
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…
And it’s incidentally the closest ASCII character to a swastika
Oh boy, I can’t wait 'til Elon gets to do the same thing with TikTok 🤮
Confirmation at least from the inside