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Ben Wikler: “X used to be the actual, you know, global town square. Now…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Ben Wikler Reflects on His Tenure as Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin on Hello Mergetag Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 06:30

I spend much too much time on both X and Blue sky and it is fascinating how they've become totally disjoint. Like X used to be the actual, you know, global town square. Now it is a right-wing echo chamber. But there's also a lot of interesting, like scientists and AI researchers and like, you know, some amount of, of like political accounts and government accounts and journalists. (06:30–06:37)

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Asserts that the platform formerly known as Twitter has become dominated by right-wing perspectives.

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