Leave X - Protect DemocracySocial media is turning into a freak show
https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak-show
The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on X/Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.
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"I recently came across a bubble chart depicting X accounts that had received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It was depressing: most of the top accounts were extremely low-quality and highly partisan. I hadn’t even heard of many of them and only follow a handful of the top accounts. So I tracked down the original data myself and, with help from Claude, made my own improved version of the chart. Here, voilà, are X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026:
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It’s not hard to notice that X has become extremely right-leaning. But I’d argue there’s an equally important trend: the top accounts are of incredibly low quality. Elon, with the algorithmic boost he built in for himself, is at the eye of the storm, of course. But “Catturd” literally gets far more engagement than the New York Times, for instance."
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IDKFQ
Koen 🇺🇦