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How Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views (www.pbs.org)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19117230

As X’s owner and most followed user, Elon Musk has increasingly used the social media platform as a microphone to amplify his political views and, lately, those of right-wing figures he’s aligned with. There are few modern parallels to his antics, but then again there are few modern parallels to Elon Musk himself.

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[–] TheFeatureCreature 7 points 5 months ago

Simple indeed, but getting people to actually stop using that trash heap website has proven to be very difficult.

I am very tired of Twitter users doing nothing but complaining about site changes and Musk yet they still just sit there... doing nothing about it. You'd think it'd be easy to rip the bandage off when it's covered in fascist propaganda but apparently not.