Jenny I feel like you’ve been screaming from the rooftops for years. You knew this would happen. You’ve called this all. I’m so grateful for what you do. It reminds me of the Cassandra Complex. Thank you for tirelessly fighting the good fight. I am in awe of the work you do.

How is this not an in-kind donation

7/ The authors conclude: "Republican accounts benefited from increased visibility or recommendation bias post-change."

6/ The analysis also found a large increase in view counts, retweet counts, and favourite counts, for Republican-leaning accounts, but not for Democrat-leaning ones. Again, the break point for this appears to be July 13, 2024, suggesting a platform-wide algorithmic change.

4/ The authors conclude that the results "indicate that Musk’s posts received a marked increase in visibility (view counts), amplification (retweet counts), and user interaction (favourite counts) that outpaced the general engagement trends observed across the platform."

3/ The analysis found "a structural break for Musk's metrics around July 13, 2024" following which his view counts increased by 138.27% and retweets increased by 237.94%, with a similarly large increase for favourites. This was far in excess of other accounts monitored.

There are people who worked the Pennsylvania elections reporting fuckery of all kinds. I know, I know Reddit but there’s some compelling stuff being alleged.

This is hardly “better”
We’re in varying levels of hell area already but I’d be hard pressed to decide who is to be preferable in this shitshow

Just what we don't need - a Minivan Taliban running Education.

Jesus ducking christ