This is actually you doing it again, lying-via-hyperbole. This didn't happen routinely (it was high profile enough to get news stories the few times it did) and it was pretty specifically white supremacist groups.
> You happened to enjoy the old smell.
If you approach conversation with a little more honesty yourself you might not just fall into the assumption other people are partisan.
That's what you are doing. I am pretty left-leaning myself, if you look at my post history.
Twitter was a notorious toxic dump long before Musk acquired it. Nothing in what I described was a lie.
The blue checkmark was supposed to be something that meant "account is verified, person is who they say they are". It was weaponized by the platform itself to mean "this person has no naughty opinions". Now I ask, was this an improvement?
Now it is actually more straightforward. "Blue checkmark means person gives money to Twitter on a monthly basis". It is still a toxic dump, it just smells different.