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Screenshot of a Bluesky post by Philip Bump  @pbump.com‬.

The actual cycle of Twitter is that it was exploited by liars and Nazis in 2016 and so the company tightened its moderation rules and then a bunch of people on the right caught up in those rules decided it was biased and that included Musk who bought it and has now automated the Nazi lies.

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@hacks4pancakes I tend to think Twitter was purchased to garrote the single largest global clearinghouse of journalism and civil oversight ever created. It was always a controlled demolition and Musk was always a Nazi with a tech-bro PR firm on retainer.

The second largest stakeholder in Twitters buyout was a Saudi prince with his hands on the national sovereign wealth fund. They wanted it dead simply because of its part in the Arab Spring. Petro-autokrats and multinational tech firms like Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Nvidia/ect. are sharing a toothbrush. Together they incubated the human spoofing chatbots that have driven conversations increasingly devisive and toxic on social media platforms.

All the AI bullshit they are pushing as a unified front presently is better viewed as these same rackiteers rebranding that human spoofing software to recoup a decade long up-front investment.