As my colleague Nick Arama recently reported, Musk was recently on Joe Rogan's podcast talking about his purchase of Twitter, what he found, and why he did it. His response makes him easily one of the greatest heroes of the modern era. He described the city X's home office is located in, San Francisco, and as loyal readers know, is a genuine Hellmouth. The city is collapsing into chaos thanks to untold levels of corruption, radical leftism, and soft-on-crime policies. Musk saw that spirit in Twitter: 

"But you have to ask yourself, what philosophy led to that outcome? That philosophy was being piped to Earth. A philosophy that ordinarily would be quite niche and geographically constrained... so that sort of fall-out area would be limited, um, was fatefully given an information weapon...what is essentially a mind virus to the rest of Earth. And the outcome of that mind virus is very clear if you walk around the streets of downtown San Francisco. It is the end of civilization." 

That might sound hyperbolic, but it's not. San Fransisco is a swiftly collapsing city that corporations are moving out of and even real estate agents don't recommend clients touch. 

It's been a year since Musk purchased Twitter and turned it into X. Has anything improved? 

There are complaints to be made and criticisms to be had, but in my honest opinion the definitive answer is yes, and I don't even think we've seen the full effect of that action yet. 

Let me first say that I'm not basing my judgment on X on how good the platform is. The platform is, in my opinion, hot garbage. There are still miles of code from old Twitter that are clearly still in effect and untangling all of it and correcting the algorithms is like trying to untangle the Gordian Knot without a sword. I personally have over 47,000 followers but thanks to old Twitter's shadowbans and censorious algorithms, I have the reach of someone with maybe 2,000 followers. Some users who were banned for saying something the old overlords didn't like remain so. Thanks to this, I've had little desire to interact with the platform like I have in the past. I literally get far more interactions on my other social media accounts with not even a fraction of the following. 

No, what I'm basing X's performance on is how the change in ownership and its altered algorithm is helping America, and it's here that I have seen a vast improvement. 

Firstly, it needs to be understood that Twitter was, as Musk stated, a weapon for the left. The way things worked is that the media would want to sell a narrative, and so that narrative would appear on Twitter with a few accounts saying it. The media would take these tweets and make it seem like this is what the people wanted. It would fabricate trending topics based on the narrative. That narrative could be talked about on mainstream networks as if it's the latest thing people want to discuss, and from there, it could normalize words and phrases that assist with the purveyance of the narrative. 

A solid example of this is the pandemic and the information surrounding it. Twitter was complicit in distributing information that benefited the Democrats and silenced anything that looked like it could challenge it. Many of my readers likely know someone who was banned or suspended as a result of simply telling the truth about anything from vaccines to lockdowns. 

The fallout from this kind of manipulation is probably something we'll be digging through for a very long time. Major movements such as Black Lives Matter to the Democrat's elections chances themselves were highly benefited by Twitter constantly manipulating the public conversation and the media effectively reinforcing the narratives that were being forced on the platform. 

Now, things look wildly different, and such, so does the narrative landscape of America. 

Thanks to Musk, the media has lost one of its most effective weapons, making narrative creation that much more difficult. The proof is in how the left has attempted to get several pre-election movements off the ground and yet it's having trouble finding solid footing. With X no longer manipulating the conversation, narratives are having trouble taking root in the public conscience. 

In fact, attempts at doing so are often met with embarrassment thanks to the creation of "community notes," a system by which users can fact-check claims made on the platform, and they've been used to great success, managing to keep public officials honest, including the Biden administration. It too isn't without its flaws, but it's certainly better than the previous method by which Twitter fact-checked things, which involved leftist entities reinforcing narratives.  

When all is said and done, we're far better off as a country with X than we were with Twitter. It's not perfect and it has a long way to go before it gets to good, but Twitter was a major asset to the authoritarians in our country who were trying to brainwash the masses with lies and censorship.

And for that, I think we owe Elon Musk a huge thanks.