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Twitter takeover: how a year of Elon Musk rendered the platform useless | Pranav Dixit (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Elon was simply following an article sent to him by a fascist explaining how to use Twitter to own the left and he did it. He followed the article to a T.

This NBC article, which was quite a challenge to find, discusses this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more X marks the spot than following to a T

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

So, essentially try to force Xitter to the hard right, making it the social media equivalent of Faux News. Anyone with a little common sense will bail, leaving the echo chamber to ferment in its own toxic vapors. Now, if only a Smartmatic incident would occur.