3b. The negative interactions are still counted as “engagement” so anybody commenting against it is unfortunately just fueling it
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radix@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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They auto-promote anyone with a blue check, which are disproportionately elon stans, which are increasingly nazis.
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The Russian troll farms are active on Xitter.
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The algorithm likes engagement. The actual nazis, the trolls, and the useful idiots are only feeding each other since that’s a huge portion of accounts left on that site.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 4 months ago
And Musk is a reich-wing edgelord, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d told the poor bastards still working at Twitter to specifically boost fascist posts