smallwheels
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Brilliant example: Everyone who does not share your opinion must be a left if not a outright communist. Following up to a ongoing conversation instead of interrupting it w/o catching up first is generally seen as a sign of politeness (but it is obvious that this word or behaviour is foreign to you). You constantly whine about being censored (without actually being censored) and complain about "rules" that "lefties" want to press on you - while at the same time you want everyone to follow the rules you set. And all you have as arguments is aggression, false claims, outright lies and insults. This is not only double standards, this is worse. Honestly: It is impossible to have a discussion with you as you are not interested in a discussion and neither able to have one. If you'd behave like that in real life you'd probably been thrown out of every location you enter.
If that's the case he is a bad leader for the company and should resign as he has nullified the money of his investors.
Regarding "free speech": X has changed the algorythm - it promotes certain messages and those are right wing. Since a couple of weeks in my timeline the posts of many people I follow do not show up any more as long as they are not right wing - despite them posting messages and some of them being very active. On the other hand loads and loads of MAGA messages popped up in my timeline. I am not the only one that recognized that. That's silencing - the opposite of free speech.
Only yesterday this popped up:
The full text on the linked substack reads as follows:
Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference
The confessions of a concerned bird.
https://substack.com/@theconcernedbirdThe Concerned Bird
Jan 11, 2025
To Whom It May Concern,
I'm writing this with a heavy heart and no small amount of fear. As a former X (formerly Twitter) employee on an H1B visa, I can't reveal my identity without risking everything, but I can't stay silent any longer about what I saw and was made to do.
When Elon Musk took over, everything changed. What started as a social media company became something much darker. I was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical.
We completely changed how the algorithm worked, pushing pro-Trump and right-wing posts to the top of people's feeds. To make it look balanced, we also boosted some left-wing critics of Democrats, but it was all carefully calculated. These changes didn't just affect Americans - they impacted users worldwide.
One of the most disturbing things we did was create thousands of fake accounts using advanced AI systems called Grok and Eliza. These accounts looked completely real and pushed political messages that spread like wildfire. Havn't you noticed they all disappeared? Like magic.
We also knowingly allowed foreign governments to manipulate the platform. State-backed groups from Israel, Iran, and Russia were running their own influence campaigns, and because their goals aligned with ours, we looked the other way. Even when they clearly broke the rules, we didn't stop them.
Perhaps the most unethical part was how we manufactured news stories. One team would write completely fake articles, while another team would artificially boost their engagement metrics to make them go viral. We specifically targeted certain groups of people, knowing exactly how to manipulate their views and emotions.
The moderation team became a tool for our agenda. We systematically silenced anyone who got in our way, enforcing the rules when it suited us and ignoring them when it didn't. Elon Musk himself was deeply involved in these decisions, often joking about being "Black Hat MAGA."
What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations. The damage we've done is immeasurable, and I don't know if it can ever be fixed. People don't know what's real anymore, and that's exactly what we wanted.
The pilot program for the Eliza AI Agent, was election interference. Eliza was release officially in October of 2024, but we had access to it before then thanks to Marc Andreessen.
I'm terrified to be writing this, but I had to speak up. I just hope that someone with the power to do something about this sees this letter. You'll know what i’m saying is the truth by Elon's actions to the news someone spoke out. For more evidence look at the docs of Eliza AI Agent software. We left bread crumbs.
Yours sincerely,
A former employee who can't sleep at night.
Obviously I cannot judge if this is true or not but it fits the observations that I and many others made independently before this popped up. If you a really a believer in free speech (and not just in amplifying MAGA messages, comfirming what you already believe) this should alarm you. Because if it is true this is the opposite of free speech but censorship with political intent by a very rich and powerful person. For the moment it does not affect you as you are on the same political side as him - but this can change any time. It possibly aready has, given that Elon does provenly support extreme right wing, fashist and Nazi parties and people throughout different countries and if you are not in the same boat.
Same to you. Now you can give evidence wether you are really for free speech (as you claim) or just for promoting of MAGA-messages and uncensored hate speech as it fits your political direction.
BTW, regarding MAGA: This picture says it all:
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LOL! And now... legacy news media is dead. They blew their trust completely.
as we have discussed before, a lot of the “fat” has left the platform because of “Elon bad”. Yet the platform seems fine and is making tons of revenue. 
