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And Musk has done as much (via his ownership and transformation of Twitter) as anyone to ensure that social media enters our lives in the worst possible form.I mean, there's a lot that Musk has done - but this doesn't make sense.
Twitter was a twisted hellscape long before he bought it. And Twitter isn't an especially large social media platform. It's a fraction the size of Facebook or Insta or YouTube:
en.wikipedia.org - List of social platforms with at least million active usersIf you were going to put this on a single person, it would be Zuckerberg - not Musk. Or perhaps Ruchi Sanghvi, who led the team at Facebook that developed and implemented the first version of the Feed: the first large-scale social media algorithm that Prof. Snyder is decrying. It's been FB under Zuck, not X under Musk, that really developed and propagated the algorithmic approach to social media.
