I wouldn’t say idiot, just very naive when it comes to your assessment of Musk’s ability to think ahead. He’s basically a South African Alex Jones who started out rich(er) 🤷
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seananigans@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This comment will make me sound like an idiot, but I’m just coming to believe that all of Musk’s decisions with X were targeted to this very outcome. To be the world’s centre of alt right propaganda. It just makes too much sense now.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He didn’t come up with the plan, he was given the plan.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
There has been an increase in blatant racism and prejudice. I don’t know if those users eventually get banned. If the right takes any action against blatant hate speech, shitheads like Tim Pool will start crying and denounce the platform as not allowing free speech. If they allow “free speech,” then the shitheads eventually drive all the normal people off the platform. The only good thing is that Twitter already has a left wing population, so as long as they can maintain that, it should avoid turning to shit. It was also a mainstream platform so hopefully that should maintain the normie population.
Sites like Lemmy instances are better at allowing a wider range of “free speech” because as long as the instance population is large enough to keep the shitheads a minority, they can stick to their own subs and generally keep the bullshit quarantined.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 7 months ago
Wasnt truth social already that?
DemBoSain@midwest.social 7 months ago
I only know one person that uses truth social.
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But he has like 70 million followers.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not just the president, I’m also a member
seananigans@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Truth is USA only, so X has a much broader reach.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Taken out of context, “Truth is USA only” is one of the most jingoistic phrases ever 😂
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Does Truth Social actually not allow users outside of the US?
That’s hilarious. Do they do it by IP? Because I’d imagine a lot of their users might be troops stationed over seas. Course the military probably has WANs with .mil addresses that everyone uses.
camr_on@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think it’s not impossible that the goal was to discredit Twitter entirely
Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’d be right. 10 days before he bought it, Musk got linked a plan to buy twitter and turn it into right-wing American WeChat.
I heard about it on Rachel Maddow’s October 2 show
thejml@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Not sure why you’d assume you sound like an idiot. You’re just coming to a hypothesis based on all available information. It seems like a sane train of reasoning based on all the empirical evidence we’ve seen thus far.
It’s likely that he didn’t mean for it to happen the way it did, or that he hoped there’s a bigger appetite or marketplace for X in this capacity. It’s also possible he didn’t think it all through as was made more likely by the way he was trying to come up with reasons to get out of the deal.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He’s not that smart. He got stuck having to buy Twitter after his pump and dump backfired. His solution to having to buy Twitter was to cut costs by firing staff and use his celebrity to manufacturer engagement with troll posts.
The problem he missed was that staff was necessary to keep hate speech under control and his trolling meant to drive engagement would backfire from advertisers and regulators.