• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    We haven’t been ignoring him, obsessively covering his antics is exactly what elevated him and Trump to power, and its not going to fix anything anymore.

    We are preaching to the choir when we complain about it here, and absolutely no one who needs to know is is going to see it because they’re in their own little filter bubble. But it is validating X as a public platform.

    We have to deplatform these people and reach out to insulated bubbles.

    • lurklurk@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Giving Musk lots of money is what elevated him to power. Covering his antics seems to hurt his brands and put pressure on various news media and governments to do something about his misinformation network.

      The nazi salute alone and the resulting coverage has gotten several organisations to drop twitter