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[–] [email protected] 81 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't Twitter instrumental in enabling January 6th?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Facebook was the larger organizing platform, groups, events, etc.

But don't worry, they kicked Parler off everywhere to distract you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Well, that was the event that finally forced Twitter to kick Trump of, so they apparently though they had some effect.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I believe it helped with Arab Spring aswell and most people argue that was a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which is why Saudi Arabia gave Elon Musk $22B to buy it without any expectation of a return on their investment. To them, the destruction of twitter was the goal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

oh it isn't more destroyed than before don't worry