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by tastyface 2 days ago
Nate Silver with the receipts: https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak...

Most of the top engagement on Twitter comes from the right.

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> It’s not hard to notice that Twitter has become extremely right-leaning.

This is very different from X is "an extreme-right, Nazi-friendly cesspool".

Try signing up as a new user and see what your new default follows are...
You think Musk's rhetoric is not extreme-right? Want some quotes?
Did I ever say that? The characterization was of Twitter, not Musk.
Musk's is the most engaged-with account on Twitter by far. Twitter is de facto his personal soapbox.