Lorewarn
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Depends on how you define worse, but here's a random assortment of things that in my estimation have gotten worse, and also a random assortment of things that run contrary and hypocritical to Musk's alleged free speech absolutism anti-censorship dogma:
• The biggest has to be that it is absolutely swarmed with bots. Over the last ~6-9 months I've gotten about 70 new followers with not a single one being real. Further, replies sections on tweets with high engagement and the 'for you' feed are both littered with 'verified' user bots spamming disinformation, phishing links, nudes in bio, entirely unrelated videos, and bloat 'wow! so cool' comments.
• The verification system going from one used to denote notable accounts to one that is pay-for-placement has resulted in a whole litany of problems
• Paid engagement farming encourages horrible takes and a further erosion of quality of communication/content/interaction, which was already a problem
• The Grok AI system routinely gives people demonstrably false info about important subjects
• Video quality is absolutely atrocious
• The platform has become more opaque and arbitrary in regards to its rules/suspensions/etc., with numerous examples of left wing journalists being banned or suspended with no warning or explanation, nonprofits being hit with lawsuits for investigations and studies detailing things like the rise in hate speech and disinformation on the platform, asking the chinese government to censor unhappy tesla owners (and filing defamation claims against chinese citizens), and getting rid of twitter's legal team that used to actually defend users' free speech rights and challenging legal orders in courts to now complying with them, especially in regards to oppressive regimes in other countries.
