More commonly these days is the message that CO2 is plant food, and climate change is a nefarious plot to kill off the plants by starving them in order to reduce the Earth's population. I can dig up several tweets this week pushing that message.

It is a shame that Twitter's algorithm is so damn easy to manipulate that it's basically owned by propaganda firms now. Elon doesn't even care, more outrage == more engagement and that's what feeds the system. It's a feedback loop of crap.

> It is a shame that Twitter's algorithm is so damn easy to manipulate that it's basically owned by propaganda firms now.

Not "basically" owned. It is the explicit purpose.

The feed is a two-directional competition, with both directions enhancing each other, with a conflict of interest afterburner, for all parties to maximally manipulate users. Neutrality doesn't exist.

(1) Pay for ads/influence to get your manipulative content in front of the most likely vulnerable users.

(2) Do the work to create addictive content, to manipulate users into remaining vulnerable, and get paid for it.

(3) And the value in both directions is magnified by the "personalized" leverage manufactured through pervasive surveillance, dossier collation, psychology hacking and real time feed manipulation.

Admittedly great things for users and society, except for the three on that list that are not.

It's not even that Elon doesn't care as in he is ambivalent about it, it directly feeds into reinforcing his political preferences.

Try to create a brand new twitter account, you'll find that 80+% of the accounts that get suggested to you are right wing propaganda with climate denial being one of their greatest hits.