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Has Twitter/X changed since Elon took over, in your experience?

Yes, especially since he threatened to sue the ADL, which of course didn't happen because he's all talk. Sometime in January he was invited to visit Auschwitz and make a public spiel about how he was wrong about anti-semitism or something like that. Linda Yaccarino (the formal CEO) posted about changes to their hate and defamation policy shortly thereafter.

I don't believe that I follow any anti-semitic accounts on X and I in any case don't sympathise with such notions (whatever it means, it's a very misused and watered-down concept at this point) so I haven't noticed if anyone got scrubbed on that basis. I see this as a clear about-face from the supposed "extreme freedom of speech" principle that Elon talked about up to and after his Twitter takeover, and this is not the first time he has shown himself as two-faced and unreliable, so I have little expectation that the hammer won't slso start falling elsewhere.

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Autumn Sun ☀️🌘☯️ 1y ago

I got a little side tracked there, but yes, I am still seeing various accounts disappear regularly again, principally those engaged in the gender wars. There was a pause to that after Elon's takeover, but it's seeingly returned.

Other stuff is a large amount of seemingly unhandled bots mass spamming anyone with a checkmark, porn/thirst traps spam, and looots of newly registered trolls that do their darndest to make any debate on any worthwhile topic noisy.

Long story short: Twixxer is in the odd situation that it's seeing a massive amount of product development and also being possible less worthwhile than it used to be because of all the noise, which is quite remarkable to contemplate. It requires depressingly much use of muting and blocking to get a 'clean' feed.

MichaelJ 1y ago

I seem to recall that Elon said much of the censorship triggers were buried deep in the code and hard to remove. Maybe the temptation to use them for his own ends overwhelmed the desire to get rid of them entirely.