[LINK] Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuary

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Wed Dec 11 11:21:31 AEDT 2024


The Ultimate "echo chamber", when we were all young - we belived the 
Internet and WWW would change the world - but perhaps not as we hoped!

> Berlin-based researcher Travis Brown has been tracking various changes 
> at Twitter under Musk’s rule; particularly how the roll-out of the 
> paid service ‘Twitter Blue’ has been going (I did an ad-hoc data 
> snapshot of climate denial among Blue accounts, and…it’s bad 
> <https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1596151891917955073>). Being able 
> to pay a tiny fee to simulate trustworthiness and get boosted into 
> prominence in both algorithmic feeds and the sorting of replies on 
> Twitter is *invaluable* for climate deniers. 
https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/03/28/musk-is-remaking-twitter-into-a-climate-denier-sanctuary/

Marghanita

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