Subject: Re: Aliens and Predators
And Musk has done as much (via his ownership and transformation of Twitter) as anyone to ensure that social media enters our lives in the worst possible form.

I mean, there's a lot that Musk has done - but this doesn't make sense.

Twitter was a twisted hellscape long before he bought it. And Twitter isn't an especially large social media platform. It's a fraction the size of Facebook or Insta or YouTube:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

If you were going to put this on a single person, it would be Zuckerberg - not Musk. Or perhaps Ruchi Sanghvi, who led the team at Facebook that developed and implemented the first version of the Feed: the first large-scale social media algorithm that Prof. Snyder is decrying. It's been FB under Zuck, not X under Musk, that really developed and propagated the algorithmic approach to social media.