Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump

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Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump: reports
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Trumptards took over Clubhouse without the backing from the CEO. It's a collective strategy, and not one man's bigotry

That's pretty crazy. Do you have examples of Reddit admins directly working with Democrat campaigns or politicians to remove content? I don't think Hunter Biden's dick pics count, as revenge porn is already illegal.

Edit: For anyone confused as to how my reply relates to the above post, the above used to be a claim that Reddit worked with democrats to remove content, but is now edited to say something completely different.

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The difference is that a community of people is downvoting and upvoting content. It’s not one person controlling what you see.

But also one man's bigotry letting the place become a massive cesspool beyond the cesspool it already was.

The first thing Musk did when he took over is un-ban many of those people. He's since repeatedly banned progressive journalists, added the word "cis" to the hate speech filters, and made numerous other changes to the way the site operates to boost those voices and suppress opposing ones.

He's not the only one to blame, to be sure, but if you think he hasn't been spearheading the effort, you haven't been paying attention. He's been backing them and a whole lot more.

Fuck Musk, but he doesn't deserve all the attention he's given.

I mean, no, he doesn't, but he was getting that attention long before he became openly fascist. And that makes him a huge problem now that he is.

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