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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by brookst on Thursday July 10, 2025 @08:02AM (#44520027)
There an argument that he paid $44B to get a Us administration that would hugely advantage him and his companies. Certainly he’s made billions from contracts initiated by this administration and seen many regulatory difficulties removed.

Of course it may all fall apart because everyone I’m involved has the temperament of a five year old on a meth bender, but the basic “buy media to influence politics to multiply wealth” approach seems to have worked well.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by intended on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:21AM (#44520729)
The evidence is that Trumps win has more to do with the dynamics of the party+media symbiosis on the right side of the spectrum, than anything X did.

If your media ecosystem can get away with selling narratives and conspiracies as facts, without any pushback, then this allows you to set the topics of discussion for any debate. Agenda setting power > platform power.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by phatskat on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:44AM (#44528732)
> Agenda setting power > platform power

The Alt-Right Playbook feels like a bummer version of XKCD for these discussions: [Control the Conversation](https://youtu.be/CaPgDQkmqqM)

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by monocasa on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:23AM (#44520744)
A US administration does not cost tens of billions. He paid $250M to the trump campaign making him the single largest donor of all time, and that's what let him buy the current admin. And that was close to 1% of what he paid for twitter.
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