With some tweets now showing impressions publicly, Elon quickly let out why.
NYTimes and other media outlets can and likely are now significantly less impressionable with Elon’s finger on the controls.
I'll agree with needing short news summaries to be visible on paywalls, yet the clear attack here is to minimize the mainstream media noting their falling reach while fewer on the left stay on Twitter, reducing outlets visibility inorganically, and blasting stuff like this on chief Twit’s feed shaking both investor and reader confidence in news sources.
Impressive.
Trump would control the media with simple belligerence and demeaning threats, whereas QElon uses crafty subterfuge to manipulate coverage of him, his allies and the process of radicalization already underway at the platform.
Addiction should be private. That is what he is saying as likes pop some dopamine in many people in our internet obsessed culture. What Elon is proposing here at the end is adding more of the dopamine receptor emojis probably along with at least one reaction downer that only the target will see.
This last one though is a must going forward for the EU or the US if either take over the company instead of regulating it out of existence as they should.