People have been complaining about Twitter's value for years before Musk - its imminent death often reported.
Twitter is #1 site for machine learning since the user base is very global and posts are down to the second.
Those are reasons the gov hijacked Twitter (and others) and used AI (not new) to manipulate news/posts etc.
I got banned for saying Wuhan virus wasn't from a market.
Musk didn't quite know the hot potato he bought.
Advertisers were already being scared off by NewsGuard and other non gov entities doing govs dirty work.
No Ford truck ads on accounts dealing with construction, farming etc?
That's not a natural occurrence.
Indeed the current "revelation" of investors no doubt stems from intimidation attempt
“We’re seeing governments become more aggressive in how they try to use legal tactics to unmask the people using our service, collect information about account owners and also using legal demands as a way to try and silence people,” Yoel Roth, the head of Twitter’s safety and integrity, said in a conversation broadcast on the site Thursday."
The language is being warped (as usual) so that censorship is now called "media literacy" and spying is "social listening."NewsGuard is implementing (with teacher union) its media literacy concept in K-12 schools. US actors hindered by Constitution work hand-in-glove with foreign govs doing the dirty work - a reason you see foreign pols threatening Musk and Twitter under their laws. They want to put people in jail for "misinformation."
I've seen Twitter use expand a lot (I still have no acccount) and expect the ads will come back as the censoring entities continue to be hoisted on their own petards.
Luckily Musk is wealthy enough and bold enough to confront abuses to degrees. They might start shooting at him soon.
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