A Mirror Of The Nation: X Now More Representative Of U.S. Than Any Other Platform

Posted • November 20, 2024: When historians and political scientists look back on the 2024 election, they'll have to point to October 2022 as the watershed moment in American political discourse: that's when Elon Musk purchased Twitter. Since then, Musk has turned X into a social media platform with tremendous political influence. This writer contends X -- back in 2020 -- helped elect Joe Biden by censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story (something this writer was suspended over for nearly three weeks), and in that same vein it helped re-elected Donald Trump two weeks ago. The Left are fleeing X for Bluesky, and engaged in the sort of censorship they love, but while they lounge in their echo chamber, X itself is actually more reflective of America's political makeup. X is a mirror to the U.S. -- More than any other platform, we represent the ENTIRE country! This is good. X is not necessarily real life, but the fact it's no longer a Leftwing bastion and more evenly split is a good thing. (…)

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