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Is X a threat to American democracy?
By Olivia Bye | October 16When first-year Thomas Park first downloaded X in 2019, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, he mostly used it to follow art accounts and look at funny tweets. Five years later, in 2024, the content on his “For You” page is largely unchanged, with one notable exception. Now, interspersed with art accounts and memes are far-right extremist advertisements, AI-manipulated images and videos known as deepfakes and an influx of hateful and discriminatory rhetoric.
