Xitter is Over

Elon Musk is a threat to society. All society. His shameless bigotry, hatred, and incitement to violence has only become amplified since his purchase of Twitter. He has turned Twitter into a nightmare hellscape of a platform which is tangibly harming people. This could very well lead to the end of democracy in the west.

Social media in general is an unregulated, dopamine driven nightmare. But Xitter takes it to a new, unimagineable level. No other social network has the reach and the lack of governance, not even close. Truth Social is limited to a smaller group of weirdos. Meta is click-bait but at least regulates outright illegal activities. TikTok is very clearly social manipulation, but arguably has pretty firm limitations in terms of content and behaviour. Meanwhile on Xitter there are government agencies and literal neo-Nazis in the same space. There is no governance around dangerous and hate speech, yet Musk orders accounts from otherwise insigificant NGOs to be banned while boosting transphoes like JK Rowling and Joe Rogan.

Most of the violence from the 2022 Freedom Convoy and 2024 UK Riots can be traced back to unchecked and violent voices that were amplified on Xitter. Not only does Xitter allow this behaviour, but actively encourages it with its profit sharing program where the only barrier to entry seems to be paying $8/month. Content doesn’t seem to be demonitized or demoted, if anything that Blue payment lets people amplify their hatred in an unchecked manner.

The introduction of long-form and video content only served to increase the mindshare of these purposefully divisive individuals. At the same time, Musk seeks to reduce the change that any meaningful information can be shared on his platform by limiting headlines and links, and actively harming organizations that aim to publish useful information such as NOAA.

Any advertiser and individual who is actively paying to be on Twitter at this point is complicit in the hate and danger fostered by Musk. Anyone involved should be held to account for the damage that it is doing to nations around the world.