Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter/X, is floating an idea that he's had before to remedy the problem of social media bots: charging people to use social media.
yeah, muks’s doing a wreck-it-ralph. before, twitter was a singular place for entities of all kinds to actually communicate with their stakeholders and the public. To countries like Saudi Arabia, that’s no good. Russia too, but also twitter is incredibly useful for wartime journalism and just tracking the conflict (see OSINT etc).
take something good and gradually shittify it until the advertisers, journalists and critical thinking audience are gone.
yeah, muks’s doing a wreck-it-ralph. before, twitter was a singular place for entities of all kinds to actually communicate with their stakeholders and the public. To countries like Saudi Arabia, that’s no good. Russia too, but also twitter is incredibly useful for wartime journalism and just tracking the conflict (see OSINT etc).
take something good and gradually shittify it until the advertisers, journalists and critical thinking audience are gone.
then get the stupids to pay for the privilege.