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Shifting the Vibes Again

John Ganz
Aug 14, 2026
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On his Substack, Vincent Bevins has a very insightful piece entitled “The 'vibe shift' was a leveraged buyout.” The argument is that Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter was a successful political move that poisoned the conditions of political discourse:

By elevating the posts of his paying supporters Musk changed the rules of Twitter; that was the whole reason he bought i…

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