All the news that’s fit to print. A few weeks back, at the end of 2023, the more reliably idiotic elements of our tech press published a torrent of eulogies for Twitter. The app was dead, the Twitter-addicted political activists once again tweeted on the app that “was dead.” The sentiment followed a year of similar declarations themselves catalyzed by an initial onslaught of baseless, activist-concocted F.U.D. Here, just as when this all began, we were told there were many reasons for Twitter’s death, but none so significant as Elon’s failure to adequately “moderate” content. In other words, he suspended the artificial boosting of state sock puppets from NBC and the Washington Post, and stopped doing aggressive political censorship at the request of actual state operatives. But is Twitter really over?
Well, yes.
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