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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't Twitter instrumental in enabling January 6th?

[–] PopcornTin@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Facebook was the larger organizing platform, groups, events, etc.

But don't worry, they kicked Parler off everywhere to distract you.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Well, that was the event that finally forced Twitter to kick Trump of, so they apparently though they had some effect.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe it helped with Arab Spring aswell and most people argue that was a good thing.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is why Saudi Arabia gave Elon Musk $22B to buy it without any expectation of a return on their investment. To them, the destruction of twitter was the goal.

[–] Globeparasite@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

oh it isn't more destroyed than before don't worry