First came the bots, then came the bosses - we're entering Musk and Zuck's new era of disinformation | Joan Donovan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Musk also paid millions for canvassers and spent many evenings in Pennsylvania stumping for Trump.
42% : That led to an unprecedented decision by social media companies to ban Trump, who was still the sitting president, and a number of other high profile rightwing pundits, thus illustrating just how powerful social media platforms had become as political actors.
33% : The letter itself was an obvious attempt to curry favor as Trump rose as the Republican presidential candidate.
31% : Whether it's Musk's strategy of overloading users with posts from himself and Trump, or Zuckerberg's silencing of political discussion, it's citizens who suffer from such chilling of speech.
29% : He supported Trump with a controversial political action committee that gave away cash to those who signed his online petition.
23% : Zuckerberg has reason to fear Trump, who has mentioned wanting to arrest Zuckerberg for deplatforming him on Meta products after the January 6 Capitol riot.

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