Trusted media outlets continuing to publish on the platform has a legitimising effect on what is largely now an illegitimate a platform for misinformation. Photo by VINCENT FEURAY/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
There is a lot of talk about “brain rot” these days: about the negative impact of doomscrolling, consuming AI slop and turgid digital content. There’s a good deal of concern about the effect all of that has on the attention spans, garbled slang and general cognition of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
But where is the real brain rot? A lot of it is to be found on X.
Under the stewardship of Elon Musk, the platform has long descended into a cesspit. It’s not enough to think: well, let them at it.
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