politics

Remember when people thought buying Twitter for $44B was overpaying and would certainly lead to financial ruin?

Remember in 2016 when people were outraged that a social media algorithm could, maybe, possibly have influenced a US Presidential election?

And then in 2024 the world’s richest man purchased one of the largest social media platforms, and then overtly used its algorithm to support his preferred candidate in a US Presidential election and everyone thought it was fine.

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Ahh the land of freedom and capital, where money is the real talk

Yes, as you said, the richest person in the world used a popular social media platform's algorithm to support a candidate. And what makes people realize this issue is the media. When all media owners support Trump for their own interests, then...

Do you mean create an actual free speech platform where no one was silenced or banned? Yeah, I think that's pretty great for America. You know Harris supporters weren't silenced, right? Freedom is not measured by how many laws you have. It's measured by if they are enforced equally.