r/technology • u/RunDNA • Nov 15 '24

Social Media Stephen King leaves X, describing atmosphere as "too toxic"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/15/stephen-king-quits-x-atmosphere-too-toxic
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u/Bong_Jovi_ Nov 15 '24

Do we really need an article for every celebrity that leaves X

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u/BlackBlizzard Nov 15 '24

or people could just not post it to this subreddit since it is barley related to technology. "Famous human stops using famous website".

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u/horatiobanz Nov 15 '24

Its an ad. Just like all of those Bluesky posts. Someone paid some bot farm to push this, either liberals upset over losing the election, or perhaps Bluesky itself using the election to try and galvanize liberals to flee to their platform. Its not organic.