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If you wonder where Trump got the idea to create his own internet based b.s. firehose, why he works so hard to get right wing voices amplified, everyone else shut up, here's why.

"Turning on the ‘for you’ feed on X shifted political opinions, but turning it off did not. . . . The algorithmic feed led users to follow more right-leaning accounts, which they continued following when the algorithm was off."

For some folks, facts, it seems, are whatever they're told.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2