There is a ton of manipulation on all social media now. If you look at the profits company execs and investors make from it, it's easy to see how they're funneling revenue out of these platforms into their pockets without really investing in the communities at all with features that create opportunity and utility. The model for large social platforms has been corrupted to the point that there's a blueprint for them, similar to casinos, where only the house wins.

I think the main reason why Elon turned Twitter into hell was to get most of the people on older accounts to quit because they had EULAs that weren't compatible with his profit plans. Now, older accounts don't grow, and they languish in a sea of whatever content Elon wants to trend. There is incessant spam about crypto, celebrities, boring music, police chase and fight clips, KPop, a ton of things that no one is interested in, while the site just also loses money.

It's symbolic of social media altogether, as Instagram, TikTok, etc. have all turned on users to just push ads, and they announce features that nobody wants. It's the height of tone deafness that will cause everyone to migrate completely off of social media... They did it to themselves. It was their ego, not any sort of utopian vision, when you think only from your own limited social perspective, there's no way you can lead a platform of millions of people with differing perspectives and backgrounds.