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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by energy123 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:18AM (#44517510)
Advertising works well on local races. But for POTUS, I don't believe it moves the needle much.

The bigger factors are whether the large media players back you (Murdoch, Musk), whether social media personalities back you, and whether the foreign intelligence agencies back you in their spamouflage and information ops (e.g. via the Internet Research Agency).

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by dinkumthinkum on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:52AM (#44521774)
You don't think the left had all these things in their favor? You think the media are all far right wing conservatives? People like Rachel Maddow and Oprah, you might consider to be much more right wing than even Dick Cheney? You don't think maybe there might be some issues out there that people voted on and maybe saying "I'm a middle class kld" and "I'm speaking" on a loop just didn't do it for them? No, it must be Murdoch, because Soros is a relative pauper by comparison. Really?
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