if you spend even 15 minutes on Twitter, you realize how many people are willing to be sucked into an evil alternate reality created by computer algorithms that appear to hate the human beings they feed upon — even without offering a delicious cut of meat steak as bait. All it takes is endless, asinine conversation, driven and dictated by the worst people in our society.
Elon Musk is buying Twitter for a sum of money so large as to be meaningless to all normal people. That's enraging many or most Twitter users, but it also feels appropriate. After all, that platform is largely controlled by trolls. So why shouldn't one of the biggest trolls on the platform own it outright? It's a little like Snoop Dogg buying Death Row Records. Of course, trolls never wrote "Gin and Juice." They are just draining the life out of our democracy.
his plan to let the already obnoxious troll problem spiral out of control will likely sound the death knell for the social media behemoth. Trolls are good for business on social media, up to a point. But if they take over too much, they run all the normal people off. Then the trolls leave too, because they're hapless and forlorn without non-trolls to troll. Soon it's just a ghost town, like Donald Trump's utterly pointless platform Truth Social.
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