[GeneralMayhem]

Past research ([1]) has shown that Twitter disproportionately boosts right-wing political content. Qualitatively, you can find whatever you want there, but Elon Musk's personal connection with and admiration for a number of right-wing individuals makes them stand out. In particular, Twitter under Musk has a clear pattern of not applying its moderation policies to high-profile accounts; in the current year, it is right-wing politicians who most frequently post hateful or blatantly false information, so failing to hold them to a normal standard amounts to a tacit approval of what they're posting.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2025334119

[freedomben]

Interesting, thanks! It looks like that's going to take at least 30 minutes to read through, and probably much longer to really understand, so I'll have to bookmark it for later, but it sounds intriguing!

[shrimp_emoji]

Please. More like the Internet (i.e., most of humanity) "disproportionately boosts right-wing political content". Before Elon, Twitter was an Orwellian algorithmic police state where everything right of Marx got shadowbanned and suppressed. (Like every other major social platform.)