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How Elon Musk allowed X to become a stalwart platform for Trump supporters. (theconversation.com)
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[โ€“] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are legal complications with silencing a sitting US president. Before Elon, Twitter struggled to contextualize and mitigate the damage. After Elon, the "damage" got artificially boosted to the top of the feed.

I had to leave Twitter because of right wing Nazi harassment. It was bad before Musk, but it used to be possible to report and remove bad actors. After Musk, reports were DOA.

[โ€“] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

There are legal complications with silencing a sitting US president. Before Elon, Twitter struggled to contextualize and mitigate the damage.

It's not a 1st Amendment violation, and every president has the ability to communicate tot the public 24/7. At least when Windrow Wilson had his 3 AM racist thoughts it wasn't able to get out fast enough for the press secretary to try and bury the lead.