Changes on the social media platform have been described as a "dream come true" for extremist parties.
  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    A bit like Tory policy, at some people you have to accept that this isn’t some awful unintended consequence but part of the plan all along.

  • HipPriest@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    As the article says, all any racist has to do now is hand Elon some cash for a blue tick and tweet whatever hate speech they want.

    At the rate Musk is going though it will only be these same racists using Twitter by the end of the year if not sooner. Whatever credibility or reputation it ever had is crashing every day.

    • noodle@feddit.uk
      7·
      1 year ago

      At the rate Musk is going though it will only be these same racists using Twitter by the end of the year if not sooner

      He actively does not care as long as those users are more profitable. Long term viability isn’t on his agenda.

      Reddit is similar. Spez doesn’t care about the old userbase. They’ve worked on getting younger and dumber users onto the platform since 2016, now they can let the less profitable older users go.