Of course he wants to make money but he also knew that he could lose it all very easily. He's many things but he's not dumb.
And yes, I believe it because he has done just that. If someone says that X isn't a freer place today than it was before he bought it, they are hopelessly biased. It's clear as day.
All social media is a cesspool. X is no different than the others.
Lately, he's been acting pretty dumb. Especially for a smart guy.
And you can bluster about bias all you want. Without the content moderation data from twitter, neither you nor anybody else could possibly come close to knowing about any twitter content filtering biases. Not to mention that the data you'd need to even start trying to make an objective case for it doesn't exist. The math disproves the silly persecution-complex-based narrative.
Twitter currently has over 300,000,000 accounts. Estimates put the number of tweets per day as high as 500,000,000. But let's use 100,000,000 to be conservative. 100,000,000 tweets per day times 365 days per year = 36,500,000,000 tweets per year.
That's
36 trillion tweets per year. If we only consider the most recent 5 years of data, that would mean 185.5 trillion tweets.
So, to actually
prove any kind of bias over the past 5 years
factually, twitter would need to have (a) deterministically categorized each of the 185 trillion tweets by all the many possible biases that exist across the world, which is flat out impossible given today's computing limitations, (b) store that massive set of information someplace, which is fantastically expensive, even though we know it's junk data since there's way to reliably determine biases for all the tweets, and (c) show, from data that doesn't exist, where the data would be highly unreliable even if it
did exist, that your particular anecdotes of bias occurred statistically more than others' anecdotes of bias.
Put another way, the fact that you know many people who were "censored" does not prove anything about how twitter is or was biased. Millions of people, all with multiple personal biases, have had content removed or accounts locked or banned.
There are
many content moderation mistakes. There are a statistically insignificant number of high profile account bans, some of which might've been done by humans, and all us humans are biased including people at twitter.
But there is no systemic statistically meaningful bias at twitter and never was. It's not technically possible. It's pure bullshit.
