Is the point really to be profitable? Or could perhaps its owners be willing to risk losing money for more power over the information landscape?
Is the point really to be profitable? Or could perhaps its owners be willing to risk losing money for more power over the information landscape?
Yep precisely it. Worth it to control the narrative, even if it's for his own vanity. When you have that much money what else do you spend it on. X is a toy.
Thank God there aren't any other media companies like that
Yeah, that's a really good point that I hadn't really considered. Although, maybe the same argument stands? If X's lockdown leads to less users, then doesn't that translate to less control over the information landscape too?
Well, if one of the big social media platforms is now a far-right playground, that changes the political landscape.
Elon Musk is using twitter to create a global far-right platform that right-wing politicians can use to experiment with talking points before watering them down and bringing them to the public.
All media orgs have X accounts, and see such things. And posts on X are in the news regularly.
So I don't think experimentation is an angle.