Elon has bragged about shadow banning posts in the interview with don lemon. Apparently twitter has been the most important public town square… to manipulate. Thank you.

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dmix 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Which interestingly was almost exclusively far right accounts. He shadow banned 3-4 and kicked a few others off X premium (so they don't get paid for tweets). Which X claimed was for spamming him and others after they disagreed with him over supporting H1B visas. But he's definitely not a neutral actor so who knows. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/23/business/elon...

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FirmwareBurner 4 days ago | parent [-]

>But he's definitely not a neutral actor so who knows.

Which other billionaire media moguls are neutral actors? Rupert Murdoch? Ted Turner? Jeff Bezos?

None of them are, because the value of media is based on its ability to control public opinion and influence elections. Otherwise none of the guys I mentioned at the top would be in that business.

"If you don't follow media you're uninformed, if you do you're misinformed."

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lovich 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I know it was a rhetorical question but Phil Knight and his son with Laika studios are the only example of rich guys in media who are actually doing it for the love of the game

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_DeadFred_ 4 days ago | parent [-]

Only thing Phil Knights loves more than the game is exploiting child labour in impoverished areas.

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		Yea, he’s very ruthless about converting impoverished children into stop animation paper model films through an admittedly convoluted process, but at the end of the day he does appear to be making the films for the art itself and not as a money making enterprise as its primary goal

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KerrAvon 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ted Turner sold off CNN decades ago. I think it's now owned by whatever became of Time Warner, which is now in the hands of right-wing billionaires with ideologies similar to Bezos and Murdoch.

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leavemealoan 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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mensetmanusman 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Counterpoint: shadow banning will always be necessary in any public square until mental illness is solved.