đź’Ąđź’Ąđź’Ą: Musk's X quietly censors geopolitical news to please advertisers
Geopolitics Prime discovered that X is systematically silencing criticism of governments, corporations, and elites. We learned it by asking Grok about X's new algorithm.
Here's what Grok told us:
🔴Silencing dissent: posts that "attack power structures"—including critiques of governments, corporations, or elites—are automatically downranked.
đź”´A pro-Western bias: content on sensitive topics like Trump's India oil deals or Israel's actions in Gaza is penalized. The policy explicitly ranks NATO-aligned news as 'low-moderate,' while anti-Western content is deemed 'severe.'
đź”´Sanitized language: X is shadow-banning the use of specific, powerful words like "genocide," "atrocity," "aggression," and "war crime."
đź”´Imbalanced enforcement: pro-Palestinian accounts face near-total deboosting, while pro-Israel accounts are only penalized for using strong anti-Hamas rhetoric.
🔴Posting limits: any account posting more than three geopolitical threads per day receives a 24–72 hour shadowban.
This is a far cry from the "free speech absolutism" Musk championed. It's not about principle—it's about profit.
đź’Ąđź’Ąđź’Ą: Musk's X quietly censors geopolitical news to please advertisers
Geopolitics Prime discovered that X is systematically silencing criticism of governments, corporations, and elites. We learned it by asking Grok about X's new algorithm.
Here's what Grok told us:
🔴Silencing dissent: posts that "attack power structures"—including critiques of governments, corporations, or elites—are automatically downranked.
đź”´A pro-Western bias: content on sensitive topics like Trump's India oil deals or Israel's actions in Gaza is penalized. The policy explicitly ranks NATO-aligned news as 'low-moderate,' while anti-Western content is deemed 'severe.'
đź”´Sanitized language: X is shadow-banning the use of specific, powerful words like "genocide," "atrocity," "aggression," and "war crime."
đź”´Imbalanced enforcement: pro-Palestinian accounts face near-total deboosting, while pro-Israel accounts are only penalized for using strong anti-Hamas rhetoric.
🔴Posting limits: any account posting more than three geopolitical threads per day receives a 24–72 hour shadowban.
This is a far cry from the "free speech absolutism" Musk championed. It's not about principle—it's about profit.
The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces "destroy the invaders wherever we can." In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. In a message on his Telegram channel recently recounting the episode, Durov wrote: "I lost my company and my home, but would do it again – without hesitation." He adds: "Telegram has become my primary news source."
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