• HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    Were Nazis allowed to deliberately ‘run rampant’ on Twitter pre-Elon? That’s a hot take.

    Musk’s buying Twitter had nothing to do with it being ‘monetised’ as far as I see. Musk just offered such a stupidly large amount that the board had to say ‘OK, sure.’

    • Handles@leminal.space
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      5 months ago

      It’s definitely true that Twitter consistently failed to raise the expected profit for stockholders, which is probably why they appreciated the wild overshot that Musk offered. I sort of appreciated that the company could stay so uncommercial for as long as it did, running only on hype.

      Did Nazis use to “run rampant” on there before? Maybe not straight up, clear cut Nazis but there were some people who really dogwhistled in that direction going way back.