If someone told you, "Many of America's top reporters spend a lot of their day in a chat room run by a 'great replacement' believing white supremacist and where many posters are Nazis" you'd be alarmed. That's basically the situation now.
I can only control me. I got off Twitter after Musk showed interest in purchasing. I spent over a decade on it and deleted my account in minutes. I deleted my Facebook after Cambridge Analytica. There was life before social media, there’ll be life after it.
I'm still on Twitter and I don't see any of that. You can curate your feed, you know.
No shit! Leave the Xwitthole and never look back.
I was speaking to a friend who is a (former) sports journalist. He's still on Twitter (X), but he interacts with it entirely though lists that he has curated. It effectively removes a lot of the unsavory content. I wonder to what extent other journalists have adopted this approach.
Don’t forget that the peculiarities of this chat room afford completely invisible control of distribution both by the management as well as anyone willing to buy popularity, now that the algorithm input (Likes) are not auditable.
It's the sitting down with Nazis parable.
I could be (hope I am) wrong but it really feels like Elon is just lining himself up to be the next Trump. Business guy seen as more gifted than he is by angry white dudes. He has made himself a political figure by having opinions to please said white dudes.
Also how much of their doxible data is being collected and collated by Musk and what will he do with it? I get there are reasons for some to still use Twitter but I am not sure if they good enough for the risk alone.