Gabriel Koch

1/ Prior to Musk purchasing Twitter, Twitter had an algorithmic far-right bias. It was biased toward far-right persons, entities, and posts. This wasn’t opinion; this was what the data showed. The data was *so clear* that Twitter had to admit what it was. theguardian.com/technology/2…

(🧵) This is the story of how far-right snowflakes afraid of free speech and facts—obsessed, instead, with their Big Important Feelings and using speech to brutalize others—destroyed Twitter. I hope you’ll follow along and share this to the extent the Musk Algorithm allows it.

41/ As progressives know, because we know history and the U.S. Constitution, and MAGAs do not know because they do not care about either of those things, the free speech of a speaker is only constitutionally burdened when it is the *government* doing the burdening. Simple enough.

27/ So this wasn’t a man who had any values—certainly not any related to free speech. But he had things in common with the MAGAs: (i) He used free speech as an empty slogan; (ii) he was lonely; (iii) he felt like a victim; (iv) he always privileged his Big Important Feelings...

23/ Concurrent to all this, there was a pudgy, pasty, creepy billionaire who was going through a breakup, who’d just been disowned by one of his kids, and felt like the cool kids in journalism and government were starting to think of him as what (candidly) he is: an abject loser.

20/ ...it was that, divided into their countless bespoke safe spaces, they felt isolated from one another and began to fear that maybe they *were* just as fringe as almost the whole planet considers them to be. In their hearts some of these far-right snowflakes began to wonder...