Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.
The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter
The common forum that Elon Musk destroyed will never be replaced—and that’s okay.
Twitter Is Dead, X Is Elon’s Personal Propaganda Platform, Where Grok Checks His Feed Before Answering
Last week, Elon Musk’s Grok AI started spewing extreme antisemitism, calling itself “MechaHitler” and pushing conspiracy theories about Jewish people. But that wasn’t the mo…
Here’s What Elon Musk Sees When He Opens X (Published 2025)
The New York Times tracked 1,109 accounts that Mr. Musk follows on X to recreate his news feed.
Criticism of X (social network)
X, formerly known as Twitter, has faced various criticisms over the years, particularly concerning content moderation, censorship, and platform management.
Elon Musk's X Rots Your Brain
Data indicates that Elon Musk's X algorithms indisputably drive users into right wing propaganda rabbit holes from which they may not be able to untether themselves.
The Musk Bump: Quantifying the rise in hate speech under Elon Musk
Since his takeover of Twitter Elon Musk has repeatedly promised to clamp down on hate speech while taking unilateral policy decisions, such as reinstating abusive accounts, that encourage the spread of hate speech on his platforms.
How Elon Musk’s Own Account Dominates X (Published 2024)
The billionaire has effectively become the star of his social media platform, transforming X into a reflection of his personal views before the election.
A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly
Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.
A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly
Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.
X is Severely Punishing Posts With Links in Them—Here's The Proof
As someone who frequently shares posts on X linking to external content sources (including my own content and content from other websites), I've noticed a major shift since Elon Musk took over Twit
Report: Tweets with racial slurs soar since Musk takeover
Instances of racial slurs have soared on Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the influential platform, despite assurances from the platform that it had reduced hateful activity, a digital civil rights group reported Thursday.
Casey Newton And John Gruber Slink Back To Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Propaganda Machine
Tech journalism mainstays are feebly rationalizing their return to a broken, billionaire-run right-wing propaganda website.
Elon Musk’s X Is A Misinformation Machine—And Black Women Saw It Coming - Essence
For years, Black women have sounded the alarm about digital manipulation. X’s new policies prove how right they were.
How Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views
As X’s owner and most followed user, Elon Musk has increasingly used it as a microphone to amplify his political views and those of the often right-wing figures he’s aligned with.
How I quit Elon Musk’s toxic online playground
X abandoned me long before I abandoned it
People are misunderstanding what happened here. They mostly did not go back to twitter. They went to linkedin or substack or threads nowhere and so interesting technical conversations simply didn't happen that could have.
Ryan Moulton
Lots of people tried to reconstruct the ML/AI/stats community over here. 90% of them left because the random abuse they got for just posting ordinary research results was too much. bsky.app/profile/jwherrman.bsky.social…
