Really late to this piece from George Lakoff on what happens when a distraction artist like Trump or Elmo gets access to the algorithms.
It doesn't address the role of the wildly misleading propaganda campaign "Twitter Files" Musk has gotten a handful of propagandists to engage in, which is rotting the brains of tens of thousands of people.
https://georgelakoff.substack.com/p/algorithm-warfare-how-elon-musk-uses
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Funnily, though, if you go to Twitter without being logged in, your experience is 100% soccer tweets plus whatever inanity Elmo tweets.
In short, I think David Sacks and the other alt-righters are still struggling with the algorithm.
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Definitely, yes.
As many have noted, twitter has reinstated actual nazis and permit antisemitism and threats (as one can see by e.g. checking replies to a high-profile jewish poster like Bill Kristol or basically any liberal female journalist).
What people still still don't seem to have realized is that Musk is also mass-banning vocal liberals and people who support Ukraine. For instance me.
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