Why do you think that? The cultural underpinnings of this rift have been simmering for years. Think what you want about the controversy, I see no indication of it being manufactured.
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I doubt anyone outside of a very technically-minded circle of mostly developers would care at all about a relay policy update if it wasn’t blowing up in everyone’s X feed.
Indeed but this seems to be downstream from more people - whatever their interests - getting the news they care about from X. You can apply this to many other current affairs topics that “blow up in everyone’s feed.” That doesn’t mean it’s manufactured.