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Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by localfirst on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:25PM (#41239410)
i've flagged this submission because of the politically biased language.

you can easily find an article that is aligned neither left or right that will be able to frame things in a more neutral language which is more appropriate for a public square type of discussion.

X is a platform without censorship or any boosting of particular poltical views unlike traditional MSM and left leaning platforms like Google, Meta, YC even.

Kamala was offered the same interview with Musk and refused.

She has not given a single unprepared unscripted interview for the record.

All this sort of blatant censorship and bias for the left wing politics is push the center towards the right.

the so called "right wing interview on X" has received over a billion impressions with the interview itself already surpassing 100 million impressions.

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Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by msie on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:34PM (#41239521)
"X is a platform without censorship" - not what I've witnessed.

What about Chad Loder? Vishal Pratap Singh?

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...

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Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by localfirst on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @09:18PM (#41241622)
You mean the violent antifa members Vishal and Chad who broke X rules against?

I don't know about you but instigating violence and threatening people like Andy Ngo for simply reporting on antifa violence is worthy of a ban on that platform.

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Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by archagon on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @01:04AM (#41242711)
The former president instigated a violent insurrection, and now he’s back and getting interviewed by the platform owner. Alex Jones spent years harassing parents of murdered children and he’s back as well. The list of reinstated right wingers who very obviously violated platform policy goes on and on.
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Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by techostritch on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:33PM (#41239508)
> X is a platform without censorship or any boosting of particular political views unlike traditional MSM and left leaning platforms like Google, Meta, YC even.

Hmmm, I haven’t seen this supported by the data, in fact Elon Musk has said that X is censoring more voices.

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Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by localfirst on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @09:19PM (#41241633)
Feel free to provide examples next time you want to counter points. It will be more credible to third party.

I'm not sure I would call offering interview to the opposing political side like Kamala is censorship.

Most people would see that Musk is trying to give both candidates equal platform, something that Google and Meta has actively rejected openly.

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Re:Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify rig... by adamredwoods on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @05:16PM (#41239942)
>> All this sort of blatant censorship and bias for the left wing politics is push the center towards the right.

This is biased and untrue claim.

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