[BurnGpuBurn]

Marc Zuckerberg: "I notice Elon has become much more popular than I am. Elon also owns an internet social platform. Elon has removed most of the censorship from his platform. Maybe if I do the same I will be popular again too?"

[immibis]

Elon hasn't removed most of the censorship from his platform - in fact, he's increased censorship - and I doubt Zuck will either.

What he's done is loudly proclaim to be removing censorship, while also removing censorship from the group that most loudly complains about censorship (which he also belongs to), and increasing censorship on their enemies, who are not so loud.

[benterix]

There was a time when Zucerkberg was popular? His platform once was, but not its founder. There even was a movie on how he cheated others.

[mvdtnz]

His platform which has over 3 billion monthly active users "once was" popular?

[BlackFingolfin]

Marc Zuckerberg being popular is not the same as his platform being popular.

[anshumankmr]

Facebook is for the let's just say older folks but Instagram and Whatsapp are wildly popular. Threads is meh. Began promising but has become a place for bots. Only account I check in once in a while is James gunn who seems devoted to that platform.

[mvdtnz]

Ok? So his platform, which encompasses all of the things you mentioned and more, is still popular across a wide variety of audiences. Got it.

[anshumankmr]

Yeah I wasn't trying to contradict what you were saying.

[thrance]

If anything, Elon has largely increased the amount of censorship on his platform[1][2]. The only demographic whose voice got louder is the far right[3], in order to please the new presidency. Zuckerberg is going for the same strategy, facts and democracy be damned.

[1] https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/13/the-right-wing-l...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/04/elon-musk...

[mhh__]

> if anything

How on earth can you say that if you were alive during the pandemic?

[thrance]

Do you really believe it's better now? Have you opened any of the links in my previous comment?

[mhh__]

I get the point with the government stuff but:

> remove censorship

> Left suddenly don't have a stranglehold on culture.

Hmmm

[thrance]

If by "remove censorship" you mean systematically promote right-wing content and downrank left-leaning content, unban neonazis, russian bots and other fascistic influences, then yeah, that's what Elon did.

Also what "Left stranglehold on culture" are you speaking of?? Workers have been losing rights in this country for decades. You clearly bought into the lies.

Here it is in the same format you did:

> Removes facts

> The right suddenly gets a stranglehold on culture

Hmmm

[mhh__]

Wokeness is mostly random bits of academic communism renamed.

[newsbinator]

According to this chart, X is the most politically balanced social media platform:

https://x.com/stat_sherpa/status/1867627066826400096

[mingus88]

According to this chart on X, X is the fairest and most balanced platform ever created. Nice.

Try this experiment. Make two posts. One with the word “cisgender” and the other with the N-word and see how balanced the platform treats you.

The former will mute your post for using a slur (?) but somehow the latter is allowed without any moderation at all (!).

Such balance. Musk has made no attempt to hide his thumb on the scale in silencing things he disagrees with.

[thrance]

This chart shows users, not reach.

I have an X account that I only use to access tweets friends send me occasionally. Whenever I go there, my "for you" page is filled with Elon Musk, Alex Jones, libs of TikTok, etc. Not a single remotely left-leaning account in sight.

If you don't believe me, try it. Create a new account and see for yourself.

[immibis]

Well yeah. If it said anything else they wouldn't be allowed to post it on X. Did you see the recent news that Elon banned his former supporters en masse for disagreeing with his stance on H-1B visas?

[slowmovintarget]

I think this was more "I can cut operational costs and ride the populism wave at the same time. Twofer!"

I doubt he cares about popularity, but he very much cares about his stock price and the things it lets him do.

[newsbinator]

Also Marc Zuckerberg: "I notice Elon and Trump are 2 weeks away from running the primary government to which I'm more or less answerable... better batten down the hatches"