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Every popular political thread on there is now a blue-check right-wing echo chamber. I guess if that's your personal political bubble it feels great, but I don't think that's the "average" user.


How can we tell if that's not the average user and they are in a bubble, or that is the average user and it's us in a bubble?


Right, that's the propaganda game, to make normies think that these right wing trolls are the average opinion.


Right, that's the propaganda game, to make normies think that these left wing trolls are the average opinion.


Are you a bot?


Are you?


If this stops every political threads then I’m all for it. It’s weird to me how people were so into it and I had a few friends who became tough to talk to because it was always trying to convey some esoteric (to me) twitter screaming match.

This doesn’t seem like a loss to me as I feel that kind of stuff isn’t only boring to me but kind of worse to have people so angry about politics. So this seems like a positive development to me if it’s now clearly just a right-wing echo chamber that people can now ignore.

I’m not a heavy user and haven’t noticed any changes really, but I never interacted with blue check mark people and always thought it was kind of a lame feature. And is still lame that people can pay for it.




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