> Propaganda is widely used on social media (GP) > how it can be used to manipulate narratives On the domestic side of things, Elon Musk is doing this, to an

> Propaganda is widely used on social media (GP) > how it can be used to manipulate narratives On the domestic side of things, Elon Musk is doing this, to an extreme degree, with X/Twitter. I'm someone that follows mostly left-wing/liberal/progressive accounts, yet I keep seeing tweets on my feed (even in the "For you" timeline) from right-wing accounts (that I don't follow). It's extremely annoying, and it is plain as day obvious that Elon Musk is trying to use Twitter to push the entire U.S. more so in a right-wing direction. Some of these unwelcome accounts on my feed are anti-Trump conservatives (i.e. The Lincoln Project variety of conservatives)--and even this seems to be carefully engineered by Musk's Twitter/X. X must have recognized that I have left-wing political views, and decided to show me account of milder conservatives, to try to gently sway me in that direction. Occasionally though, and especially in tweet replies, I often see replies of extreme conservatives (including the openly white nationalist and anti-Semitic kinds. It's truly horrifying how much these voices are being amplified. Some of it probably has to do with the fact that X's fee-based "Verified" users are being amplified, and the "Verified" user base skews heavily to the right, since likely only they feel comfortable with paying a monthly fee to a right-wing unhinged billionaire[1]. Elon Musk is running one of the largest social-media propaganda campaigns in recent history. In terms of scale, one could even think of the billions sunk into buying Twitter essentially as political spending, considering how Twitter/X has now been transformed into a giant covert right-wing influence machine. [1] I do pay for Premium Connectivity on my Telsa (which I purchased before Elon Musk went Peter Thiel-style crazy), but Premium Connectivity is pretty much a necessity for me on a Tesla. I personally find Musk's politics (and generally GOP politics) to be beyond-the-pale vile evil and disgusting, to the point that I might be compelled to hold off on my 3-year-old Cybertruck reservation if the Cybertruck actually ever comes into mass production (at a non-inflated price). But, hopefully, someone like Bernie Sanders wins and we tax billionaires out of existence (for example, if Congress enacts a one-time 90% wealth tax on accumulated assets in excess of $500 million)--that would put to rest my discomfort with buying a new Tesla when Musk still has ownership over a significant chunk over Tesla.....