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Even worse is that Twitter/X still has an air of mainstream legitimacy since others built it into a household name before musk decided to vaporize billions of dollars to be able to enshittify it.
It was never a good platform. Mainstream media just liked it because they could rationalize any shit take they wanted to push by saying "thousands of people on twitter are concerned about X problem". Their audience didn't realize that those thousands is the same as one belligerent drunk at a bar who won't shut up.
But we're there any better platforms that people were using? The problem was that all the alternatives were doing next tot nothing for countering disinformation. Twitter was the best of a bad situation.
You could always NOT use social media as a news source. Short form media is just ripe for manipulation.