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Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network (The Atlantic)

by hn2017 on 5/23/23, 10:13 PM with 17 comments

• by AHOHA on 5/23/23, 10:55 PM

  Anyone is using Twitter for anything serious and beyond some joke or personal activity fun, is an idiot.

• by BulgarianIdiot on 5/24/23, 3:13 PM

  The Atlantic is trying too hard. Yes, the CEO is leaning hard right and has a bunch of weird opinions. But Twitter remains its users as of yet, and there aren't 450 million "hard right" users on Twitter for sure. If you compare it, say, with TruthSocial...

  Twitter is however dying, and that's... another debate I guess.

• by version_five on 5/23/23, 10:26 PM

  I've been lurking a bit on Twitter recently, and I agree it has a larger right wing group on there that appears to be experiencing a bit of a renaissance. I can only see that as a good thing. It's mostly just people with different political views than the establishment, that are in general far less extreme than the lot of the left wing stuff you see. It's brought some natural balance back, which should be a good thing no matter your political view. Twitter's still an echo chamber, and has a lot of pointless outrage, but at least there are more perspectives now.

  I don't buy in to the idea that twitter is censorship free, or neutral, there seems to be lots of exceptions. But at least it lets a different group of people talk. For a while it seemed like anything that wasn't ultra left coastal liberal views were socially unacceptable (which this article tries go insinuate) but in reality there are lots of perfectly normal perspectives people have.

• by patrick451 on 5/23/23, 10:59 PM

  The Atlantic has no what far right even is. Most folks on the far right aren't even on twitter, they're on gab. From what I see on twitter, most of the right wing stuff is pretty middle of the road.

• by hn2017 on 5/23/23, 10:13 PM

  > Now the site itself has unquestionably transformed under his leadership into an alternative social-media platform—one that offers a haven to far-right influencers and advances the interests, prejudices, and conspiracy theories of the right wing of American politics.

  https://web.archive.org/web/20230523210556/https://www.theat...

• by rvz on 5/23/23, 11:09 PM

  Here comes the very upset news outlets still crying over the bird app again, with the normal users still not caring and continuing to use Twitter with over 220M+ daily active users.

  We have given 6 months for Twitter to completely collapse and the hard truth is, it did not collapse as expected. The doomsters will never admit it and the Atlantic still won't leave Twitter either. In fact, they are still paying for Twitter. [0]

  Articles like this, reads like complete cope since Twitter has always been the source of media outrage and attention and they keep resorting to using the platform regardless.

  [0] https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic