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Ron’s Boulevard of Broken Streams

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The Rise and Fall of Right-Wing Media

Elon Musk has bought one of the major distribution mechanisms of content in the world, and he is now using that to tilt the content that's attributed. If Twitter is on a media company, it's a media distribution company. The content choices being made by Elon Musk via their algorithm is pushing more right-wing content. He's using his ownership and his platform to highlight no Democratic candidate's going to go on there and do it, but there will be MAGA candidates all the time. And that is an argument, not that we should care that much about Twitter, but this is the future of media is media distribution.

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