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I'm sure he would remark that he consulted the largest moderation council available, the general public, or some equally lame shit like that. The guy does what he wants.

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That actually is who he consulted. His poll got 15 million votes.

So all major moderation decisions on Twitter will be Musk posting a poll?

edit: He's also claimed that people were botting the poll, so it doesn't seem particularly reliable.

Elon would have restored Trump's account regardless of the results of the poll.

Is there any evidence for this? This sounds like an unfounded smear, which as a counterfactual, is conveniently unfalsifiable.

I think it’s a good assumption as far as assumptions go. The poll was just something to hide behind. Because a majority votes on something doesn’t mean it’s right, and his company also isn’t a democracy. Why not run polls on all of Twitter’s content moderation? The people can speak on each matter.

A poll hosted on a platform he controls is an easily-manipulated outcome.

The 2020 election got 150+ million. What's your point?

Elections have a whole bunch of controls to ensure that people only vote once and that votes are legitimately made by real people.

Regardless of your opinion of the outcome, online polls have been viewed as pretty garbage data for a long time.

Maybe he should have consulted twitter's userbase before buying the thing.

The real question is, how many of those were bots? You know, the big problem he identified and that he was absolutely going to solve,

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