The genius of Fox News was "why spend money on buying political attack ads when you can just buy the network and run them all day long." Twitter is just becoming that too.
No, that's a misunderstanding. What Fox News cares about is growing and maintaining an audience because that's what profitable. In pursuit of that profit, Fox News will foster its community however it can.
And so, driven by profit seeking, Fox News has embraced total nihilism. Fox News will spin any narrative, tell any lie, invent any fiction if it thinks it is what its audience wants to hear. The more Fox News offers its audience comforting fictions, no matter how untrue, the better for the bottom line.
You don't have to believe me on that. It's what Fox News says of itself:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/08/tucker-car...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/fox-news-d...
look up the roger ailes papers from when it was founded
Doesn't make economic sense at all if you buy it for $44 billion when it was already on shakey financial grounds.
I would not be surprised if he could have offered the api $420/mo and 100x more apps were willing and/or able to pay.
It was profitable. He caused it to hurtle toward bankruptcy.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2022/12/21/twitter-and-its-f...:
> Twitter has been operating at a massive loss for years, failing to book an annual profit since 2019 (Mauer, 2022). For eight out of the last ten years, the company has posted a loss.
https://www.netcials.com/financial-net-profit-year-quarter-u...
Twitter’s underlying business was already profitable.
He almost certainly caused some advertisers to leave, but as a reference snapchat had similar decreases in advertising spend, so its hard to argue this is all Musk and not considerably due to economic conditions and apple's privacy changes
I don't remember being a highly profitable venture before, so what was the previous owners intentions with owning the business but not caring if it generated a reasonable return?
What propaganda were they spewing?
It was profitable on an ongoing basis (the most recent reported period had a one-time charge that made it unprofitable, IIRC) though not “highly profitable”. Since the Musk takeover was announced – leading to forward advertising sales drying up even before it was consummated – its been (by Musk’s own description, including as to the timing, though he places the blame elsewhere) hurtling toward bankruptcy.
- Jim Morrison
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweet...
Musk is very vocal about his far-right views. He's anti-union, anti-public health, etc.
>how are they amplified considering anybody can post anything?
Anyone can post anything, but Musk can and has systemically prioritized his tweets over organic content.
I'd be interested in any sort of proof.
> Musk is very vocal about his far-right views. He's anti-union, anti-public health, etc.
Please show specific examples of his far-right views, so I can understand what specifically you mean by that term other than things you personally find disagreeable.
Have you been paying attention? https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets... "This story is based on interviews with people familiar with the events involved and supported by documents obtained by Platformer."
> Anyone can post anything, but Musk can and has systemically prioritized his tweets over organic content.
>If we keep throwing that around when we mean right leaning or politically right views then anyone on the right is going to be "far-right
The GOP is a far-right political party. They are fundamentally anti-democracy.
>and we're never going to work together.
We aren't going to work together regardless because the far-right GOP doesn't want the same things as most Americans. They are a political minority that can wreak havoc on the country due to poorly thought electoral systems.
>I think that the other comments to you are to point out where Elon has fascist or Nazism beliefs.
There is more to the far-right than having Nazism beliefs. American far-right is Christian Fascist. Elon Musk is a fascist a la Henry Ford.
He provides vocal and material support to fascist and far-right causes such as vaccine conspiracies and transphobia. He's anti-labor, anti-safety regulations.
I'm guessing you're one of those folks who want to pretend he's not far-right until he openly wears a swastika.
My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
Heh. I have a disdain for throwing shade and hyperbole, am I also far right cmh89? :)
I don't know. How often do you pal around with far-right people and help spread their rhetoric? That would be a good indicator. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, its probably a duck.
Likewise, Musk has adopted far-right talking points, wants far-right approval, and supports far-right causes. He's probably a duck huh
When any amount of right wing is far right, it just show how far left your perspective is. And if you think far right is in any way worse than far left, that's just more evidence of the same. They're the same people, just with opposite causes.
It's more complicated than just the ability to post. Never discount the power of the algorithm. And that can be tinkered with:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-15/musk-forc...