A quick note on
@NYCMayor & social media:
Despite all its awful flaws, something Meta gets better than other social media platforms is the understanding that engagement is king.
Now that you effectively have to pay for engagement on Twitter - and do so for a potential payout - all the top comments on the Netanyahu is a war criminal post on Twitter are right wing bots & idiots with fake outrage.
On Instagram, however since this sentiment is so clearly widely shared, all the top comments are whatever have the most engagement - a much truer and more organic view of public opinion - and it is universal support.
The value Twitter USED to have as the Internetโs public square has been ceded to a racist idiot in Musk whose idea of engagement is prioritizing the racist idiots and bots that agree with his worldview