Nowhere is the new reality of X as a state media platform more obvious than on https://doge.gov/ -- the main page is a feed of posts from their X account.
Expect more of this as Musk worms himself into the government, including "DM us on X" and similar nonsense (of course it won't be a human that responds, but a state AI bot based on Grok).
This is why viewing X as a tool for persuading anyone of anything makes no sense. It's not a tool for you. It's a tool for them.
@eloquence like this?
“The National Transportation Safety Board will only update the press about the plane crashes in Washington, DC and Philadelphia on X”
https://www.theverge.com/news/604740/ntsb-x-elon-musk-media-communication
@eloquence Not to mention, if Doge were to look at the trash bots on X, they'd slash it as a waste of money