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.
Bear in mind that his public perception has gone from lovable billionaire selling flamethrowers because it’s cool, to right wing douchebag supporting putin. News outlets tend to pick nice photos of the “good guy” and find something awful for the bad.
Though I do agree, he’s not aged well. But our perception is probably skewed by cherry picked photos for news articles through the years.
Bear in mind that his public perception has gone from lovable billionaire selling flamethrowers because it’s cool, to right wing douchebag supporting putin. News outlets tend to pick nice photos of the “good guy” and find something awful for the bad.
Though I do agree, he’s not aged well. But our perception is probably skewed by cherry picked photos for news articles through the years.