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Mark has looked at what has happened to Twitter since Musk took over, a notable decline in activity and value… and decided he wants a piece of that? Musk is begging people on Twitter to post more positive content, as it devolves into 4chan-lite.

If Musk’s ideological experiment with Twitter had proven the idea that you can have a pleasant to use website without any moderation then Mark’s philosophical 180 would at least make sense, but this doesn’t, at all. What’s to gain? Musk has done everyone a favor by demonstrating that moderation driven by a fear of government intervention was actually a good thing.

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Could be an exit strategy… maybe he’s tired of running a social network and wants to help run governments and fly to space like the other guys.

It starts to make more sense when you think about who is arm in arm with the president elect. I don't know that Musk believes his philosophy is wrong and now he has the power to pressure others.

New government. So you've got lack of moderation driven by a fear of government intervention.

I use meta products, it’s anecdotal but they’re dead. At least they seem very stagnant. This is appeasing the new establishment and hoping for more engagement ?

Community Notes has nothing to do with trashfire of posters on Twitter now. CN is probably the only good thing about Twitter right now.

> Mark has looked at what has happened to Twitter since Musk took over, a notable decline in activity and value… and decided he wants a piece of that?

Hell yes he does, Twitter helped Musk get a seat at the table with Trump and the ability to influence US policy decisions at an unprecedented level. Zuck craves power and sees sucking up to the incoming administration as an easy path to get more of it.

> Musk is begging people on Twitter to post more positive content

Is this the same Elon Musk that recently called a British member of parliament a "rape genocide apologist"?

Elon Musk has been radicalised and now he is using his platform to radicalise others.

I have a feeling it is more part of an agreement with the new administration. It was an agreement with the old administration that led to the current platform where there is way too much overreach on things the govt didn't want discussed: COVID, Palestine, immigration, etc.

I’m not sure where you’re getting data from but Twitter seems fine: https://www.demandsage.com/twitter-statistics/

Additionally, if you haven’t read the article you’re commenting on, community notes is an excellent replacement so-called fact checking services which are notoriously biased.

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