For once, the main drama playing out on the social-media platform X wasn’t (entirely) centered on its billionaire owner. - evan vucci/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images“Ride the information dragon!” Musk encouraged this past week, shortly after Biden made his announcement to exit from the race via X and other social media. And in the past year as X usage fell, Sensor Tower says, rivals were growing. Where X and Sensor Tower agree is that there has been renewed excitement around the platform as of late. But beyond Biden’s historic news this past week, the platform was also full of the kinds of raunchy material and conspiracy theories that turn some off.

Source: Wall Street Journal July 27, 2024 13:05 UTC