Study linked on Twitter/X : approximately mid-July, the algorithm was modified to subject users to more pro-Trump content whether they sought it or not. Link to the study https://eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
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My “for you” feed suddenly started feeding me a ton of pro Hamas content. Also, when I opened the app it started defaulting to FY when I rarely ever use it.
i started seeing Pro T stuff on TikTok too and there is no way anything I liked or followed would give any indication I was a pro t person. I ended that relationship shortly thereafter. bye tiktok.
How do we let the entire American population know they have been manipulated by Musk? Will FoxNews hide this from their audience? Those are the people that need to know this.
I stopped using Twitter as often as I did because I was getting content from pro Trump and red pill accounts , even though I never engaged them or looked at their pages.
That explains why my blocking finger got so sore. I go back to see how many of my followers have disappeared. At the rate things are going I’ll be at 0 followers in about two weeks.
Elmo was ridiculed when he drove away advertisers and Twitter’s value plunged. But his plan was not to make money but rather to manipulate and help Trump win an election, which would ultimately get him closer to positions of power. (1/2)
I thankfully left Twatter for good the day the Musk boy's purchase went through. I haven't looked back. Twatter and the Musk boy can kiss my you-know-what.
The more pro-trump stuff I saw, the angrier I got. I was so pissed off at the manipulation that I dumped Twitter and MSM after the election. I have a sub to NYT to play Wordl and Connections a while longer, but I’m not renewing.
They chose a bad sample—5 inactive politicians versus 5 highly active commentators—and the discrepancy only appears for views. I’m concerned about Twitter as well but it’s a terrible study and the thread misrepresents it. People should disregard it.
Mr. Musk went from occasionally appearing in my feed to being the most common poster. Did not seem by chance. Why have an expensive toy if you can't play with it.
I blocked him, when that happened. I likely would not have if he hadn’t made Twitter his own personal vanity project to have more people subjected to his views.
I blocked him too and then one day I commented on something about him in an unflattering way and he liked my comment. Deactivated my account a couple days later. Before I deactivated I changed my name on my account and email. That man is a monster who does not have a problem with punching down.
How is there not a law against this? Also, please advocate for hand recounts in the swing states. It does not add up that he ran the table in all swing states with such a high percentage of bullet ballots.
I had barely used my X accounts over the past year. And it's been months since I used them at all, so it was time to give the big middle finger to Musk and delete my accounts altogether. Feels good to be away from that cesspool.
That's the whole reason I'm here now. It was really noticeable in my feed. I actually prefer seeing a mix of opinions, but when all I'm getting is right-wing conspiracy theories from people I don't follow, I'm out.
Yep. I began to notice when my feed looked like a rage storm of alt politics, when most people I followed there were actually pretty calm people! A feed I’d curated to be thoughtful looked like a freedom convoy reunion.
THANK YOU. I deactivated my X account this past week. I saw MAGA stuff at the right of the screen that I could not remove, block, or click "not interested in this." It was forced on X users - a sort of social media rape - you had it shoved into your eyeballs whether you wanted it or not.
Wasn’t this a plot line on the critically acclaimed Shonda Rhymes series, Scandal? Wait..the show didn’t even go that far, they just used the data from a social media company to form their attacks/talking points… 🙄
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X is just misinformation and hate.
Dropped the app before the election. Relief
A gov can decide to accept shells, pigs, grain, Talley Sticks, or dollars, pounds or yen.
If it accepts pigs, then the pig is a pig. The law is the money
US Law: Our gov prints 💵
Accepts them back as payment of tax
The government gets a pig.
Law says: Pay tax in dollars. Now a pig farmer will want some government printed dollars to pay tax. So will sell a pig for dollars.
The government gets a pig.
Our government buys everyone a doctor.
Let’s say our government now taxes everyone to remove that government spending.
The public now has a doctor
I thankfully left Twatter for good the day the Musk boy's purchase went through. I haven't looked back. Twatter and the Musk boy can kiss my you-know-what.
I follow him and never see his content, I need to search it out.
Oh.
https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3lb2payb2c624
It's a pleasure witnessing Grok have 🧠drain!
I used X for the news on the war in 🇺🇦. During the same period, "For you" page randomly started showing me only 🇷🇺 propaganda, nothing else.
I was wondering what was going on; weeks later it turned to 🇺🇦 content back. It was obvious Elmo had a hand in this.