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by simianwords 32 days ago
I think meta should have done what musk did and ripped the bandage off.
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You may have noticed Zuck is continually trying to make or buy the Next Big Thing. Elon mostly just wants to keep the lights on and shape content to his personal interests.
Please explain Tesla, spacex, PayPal, the boring company, xAI in your context of "just wants to keep the lights on"
I was referring to Twitter though.
What exactly are you referring to?
Presumably reducing the entire company to a set of core engineers.
And deliver nothing on the promises he made
There’s been a substantial removal of political bias and community notes was released under his watch.
There's been a substantial increase in political bias.

> Our new X users saw double the amount of right wing content than left wing content

> And right-wing content was shown most prominently, regardless of users' political leaning.

> Left-wing users saw almost the same amount of left-wing and right-wing content, even though they only followed left-wing accounts. But only 14% of the political content sent to our right-leaning users was left-wing.

> The neutral users saw twice as much right-wing content as left-wing content. And barely any of the political content shown to our X users was non-partisan.

https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boo...

Maybe the bias just aligns with your personal one now?

> Maybe the bias just aligns with your personal one now?

No. I’m an Obama era left leaning person, the same positions Obama had (illegal immigration is bad, if you don’t feel like a man don’t cut your penis off) are now considered right wing.

There are absolutely hard left positions on X - Israel should be destroyed, ICE must be dismantled, - but they’re not banned like right leaning content was in the Twitter era.

Mecha Hitler the centrist.
Twitter, I presume?