We studied 100 popular accounts reinstated by Musk after being banned by Twitter. We found they played an important role in injecting them into mainstream discourse, often interacting with Musk himself & growing their followings exponentially since returning to X. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/t...
Many users who were reinstated by X have continued to share the kinds of false narratives and conspiracies that once got them suspended.
Shout out to accounts reinstated by Elon after posting csam
They're only "popular" because the bot army follows them to feign majority support to normalize the fascism. bsky.app/profile/kate...
We studied 100 popular accounts reinstated by Musk after being banned by Twitter. We found they played an important role in injecting them into mainstream discourse, often interacting with Musk himself & growing their followings exponentially since returning to X. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/t...
Many users who were reinstated by X have continued to share the kinds of false narratives and conspiracies that once got them suspended.
Musk is scum all the way...
This is important and great to get into the mainstream!
We could say there are 2 types of moderation content. One is civilized, and the other is based on threats, insults, aggressiveness, etc. Fact check is traded with fake news and fanaticism, etc.
Please do Facebook and Instagram next!
Yet news orgs., reporters, and govt. orgs keep using Twitter. As a NYT subscriber, I'like to see the same variety of acts. on Bsky as on XTwitter. Or just move them to Bsky (and Threads, if you must✌️).
Eff that guy😠
It really is amazing how fast it deteriorated. I didn’t realize how few of the accounts accounted for so much of the misinformation!