Elon Musk disclosed on Twitter Saturday that, due to a 50% drop in advertising revenue and a “heavy debt load,” the platform still has a negative cash flow.
This is so true. 80% of the blue marks are right wing bot accounts that post -nothing- but about politics. I hope someone does a study to see how many are Koch brother vs. China vs. Russia. It would make a great thesis for some aspiring master’s student.
Unfortunately hard to do without free/cheap API access. Looks like both Twitter and Reddit want to make it hard for researchers to work out where the biases in moderation really are, while throwing some selective internal documents to some journalists in their camp.
This is so true. 80% of the blue marks are right wing bot accounts that post -nothing- but about politics. I hope someone does a study to see how many are Koch brother vs. China vs. Russia. It would make a great thesis for some aspiring master’s student.
Unfortunately hard to do without free/cheap API access. Looks like both Twitter and Reddit want to make it hard for researchers to work out where the biases in moderation really are, while throwing some selective internal documents to some journalists in their camp.