I don’t think American politics can really change until more folks stop letting Musk’s algorithm shape their reality bad-faith-times.ghost.io/elon-musk-ca... - ThreadSky

dennycarter.bsky.social • 12 days ago

I don’t think American politics can really change until more folks stop letting Musk’s algorithm shape their reality

https://bad-faith-times.ghost.io/elon-musk-cant-be-allowed-to-shape-our-reality/

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doggydaddy.bsky.social•12 days ago

Great article!

dennycarter.bsky.social•12 days ago

thank you

lilbird9702.bsky.social•12 days ago

Journalists haven't had the best mental health over the past three years. But now they're frying their brains by using X. And it shows.

hybridcap.bsky.social•11 days ago

Nothing changes till Elon Musk is handcuffs. It doesn't matter how well his twitter megaphone works or doesnt work if he is literally allowed to commit federal crimes without anyone stopping him

mikethemadbiol.bsky.social•7 days ago

📌

dennycarter.bsky.social•12 days ago

Very much related: @dusty-schmidt.com's Bad Faith Times essay on the algorithmic destruction of democracy.

https://bad-faith-times.ghost.io/untitled-7/

dennycarter.bsky.social•12 days ago

I don’t mean to doom here. There are ways to counter this, as outlined in the piece. It’ll require buy-in on a massive scale though.

dennycarter.bsky.social•12 days ago

Probably you noticed this if you remain on X, but the site's algorithm was adjusted in July to make Musk's voice the dominant feature of the entire ecosystem. It changed the 2024 race.

brianobliviondds.bsky.social•12 days ago

What explains the sharp decline at the end? Possible election interference concerns, so he throttled it back?

gabejt.bsky.social•12 days ago

Looks like it might just be a quirk of how the data was collected? Study says the data series goes through October 25th but they don't specify the time, and considering the researchers were 15 hrs ahead in Australia, maybe they just collected until 9am ET that day

brianobliviondds.bsky.social•12 days ago

Just wondering, i haven't the MP to cast aspersions.

damadsociologist.bsky.social•12 days ago

👍🏿⚡️⚡️

kjmiller.bsky.social•12 days ago

I would have hoped that "Let the Neo-Nazis win in Germany" would have been a deal-breaker but apparently not

stanboomy.bsky.social•12 days ago

I’m just one guy, Denny.

As soon as Rotoworld migrates their notifications apparatus to Bluesky, I will have no reason to maintain a Twitter account.

dennycarter.bsky.social•12 days ago

rotoworld doesn't do news update posts!

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