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by rsynnott 899 days ago
> in order to associate a negative event with their name?

I mean, it is _his fault_. Are you aware of the phrase “the buck stops here”? And from a practical point of view, just “X” is pretty ambiguous, and the “X, formerly known as Twitter” thing is cumbersome.

What makes you think this is propaganda? In service of what ends? Propaganda doesn’t just mean “news I don’t like”, or even “poorly/clickbait-y reported news I don’t like”.