Social-media researchers overemphasized the platform now called X for years. But now, as it rapidly changes into something new and frightening, we risk paying too little attention.
This isn’t pointed out enough, IMO. People act like it went sharply downhill under Musk but this is the platform that enabled extremists for years and only even banned Trump when he literally tried to overthrow democracy. Maybe Twitter was good in like 2010 but I really don’t think Musk changed THAT much about it.
Lol I got down voted for saying hi to a fellow trekkie that’s also on the same trek instance as me. I’m pretty sure we are a small instance, so randomly coming across another person from our instance is kinda rare.
It’s always been bad.
but it has become much worse in the past year
because you’re being told it is. twitter has always been a cesspool.
old twitter at least pretended to fight hate speech and disinformation, the
“new” twitterX doesn’t give a flying fuck to both issuesNot nearly this bad. Go read the article. It’s much easier to spread crap nowadays, even though you could before.
This isn’t pointed out enough, IMO. People act like it went sharply downhill under Musk but this is the platform that enabled extremists for years and only even banned Trump when he literally tried to overthrow democracy. Maybe Twitter was good in like 2010 but I really don’t think Musk changed THAT much about it.
👋 hello fellow trekkie in the wild
🖖 Hello fellow Website user!
Lol I got down voted for saying hi to a fellow trekkie that’s also on the same trek instance as me. I’m pretty sure we are a small instance, so randomly coming across another person from our instance is kinda rare.
Illogical.