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All media orgs have X accounts, and see such things. And posts on X are in the news regularly. So I don't think experimentation is an angle.

• tovej 19d ago
  Then you are not thinking very much. Media does report on far-right output on twitter sometimes, but not often. And when they do, it often boosts the message instead. It's the same mechanism as how Donald Trump originally got elected. ...and at the same time, they are focus-testing extremist messaging.
  • b112 19d ago
    Stop with the personal attacks. You can disagree with my assessments, without claiming I "dont think much". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
    • tovej 18d ago
      I'm sorry. The purpose was to underline that catering to the far-right and providing them with a space try out messaging is not a very hidden aspect of X. I didn't mean to imply that you don't think in general.
      • b112 18d ago
        Thank you.