[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Pierre

His profile was already high, he didn't need to buy Twitter for that.

It's clear that Twitter was run by, shall we say, left leaning people, and that they summarily banned / shadow banned mainly right leaning people even though they were on the record for saying they didn't do that.

Twitter were also quite happy for hate speech and death threats against the likes of JK Rowling to go on, on a daily basis.

I think what Elon is doing is great, and the fact that he's upsetting lots of people (like Ian) whilst doing it, so much the better.

What a nice man you are

Here's a reality check for you:

Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets

Twitter has admitted it amplifies more tweets from rightwing politicians and news outlets than content from leftwing sources.

The social media platform examined tweets from elected officials in seven countries – the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and Japan. It also studied whether political content from news organisations was amplified on Twitter, focusing primarily on US news sources such as Fox News, the New York Times and BuzzFeed.

The study compared Twitter’s “Home” timeline – the default way its 200 million users are served tweets, in which an algorithm tailors what users see – with the traditional chronological timeline where the most recent tweets are ranked first.

The research found that in six out of seven countries, apart from Germany, tweets from rightwing politicians received more amplification from the algorithm than those from the left; right-leaning news organisations were more amplified than those on the left; and generally politicians’ tweets were more amplified by an algorithmic timeline than by the chronological timeline.