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It’s pretty wild to try to claim twitter wasn’t a propaganda machine before musk

• stackedinserter 2y ago
  You don't understand, it was promotion of _the right things_, it doesn't count as propaganda. /s
  • knowaveragejoe 2y ago
    The twitter files broke so many people's brains. They revealed essentially nothing of consequence, but it validates those who were already convinced that twitter was "silencing conservative voices". Of course when we look at any sort of success metrics that actually matter to a twitter personality, the top spots are overwhelmingly conservative pundits, and essentially always have been.
    • whamlastxmas 2y ago
      Except for when they, you know, get banned entirely
• wyre 2y ago
  I didn't realize I was implying that. It was def a propaganda machine before, but I hope we can agree that under Musk it is a very different machine
  • whamlastxmas 2y ago
    To turn something into implies it isn’t already