Elon Musk, unlike most users of the social media platform he owns, has an incentive to tweet controversial opinions. The more he riles people up, the more people engage on Twitter. It’s hate-clicks as a business strategy — a strategy that he is by no means the first to deploy.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
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Analysis by Philip Bump
March 16, 2023 at 11:51 a.m. EDT