Left-leaning users are moving to bluesky because of concerns over political bias and misinformation on x. · its been nearly two years since elon musk bought twitter and turned it into x. · the removal of trump from twitter/ x raises questions about his continued ability to drive news attention through his alt-tech platform, truth social. Our analysis shows that the retweets and “retruths” trump gained predicted related news attention across the political spectrum. · more recently, the slogan “it’s all happening at x ” has been commandeered by critics of the platform who say x is full of racist rhetoric, disinformation and other objectionable material. · as musk has quickly become one of donald trump ’s biggest supporters, he has transformed x into a maga mouthpiece. He has turned the platform into a megaphone for himself and, increasingly, for former president donald trump. · in the october 2023 documentary elon musk’s twitter takeover, frontline examined the shift of musk’s political ideology during the covid pandemic and his purchase of the platform now named x. · the shift from x to bluesky is part of a larger trend.
