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The biggest difference I see is that it's much more overt now. Pre-Musk, I think if you asked most people to place Twitter on a political scale, they'd put it s
by oneeyedpigeon 3y ago
The biggest difference I see is that it's much more overt now. Pre-Musk, I think if you asked most people to place Twitter on a political scale, they'd put it somewhere roughly in the neutral ballpark, maybe slightly left of that. Now anyone remotely reasonable would put it firmly on the right of the scale—not far-right, sure, but distinctly right.
Now, I'm not saying that's a good or a bad thing. It may be that pre-Musk twitter was just more sneaky about their political bias, covered it up, and were biased to the exact same extent. Or it could be that Musk is just much more biased in his handling of Twitter than pre-Musk was. Both are factors, I'm sure.
- znpy 3y agoNo, i used to consider twitter on the far left. It’s the same tool, now with a right-wing owner. If anything, we should wonder: was this happening before too (with inverted roles) but we just didn’t get made aware of it?
- klyrs 3y agoPeople and content getting removed from twitter has always been a topic of conversation. Folks on the far left were banned for various reasons, including hate speech and calls to violence. Folks on the right were quite vocal on other platforms when they got banned for the same. If you weren't aware of it, good for you; in my experience, it was discussed to death.