If Twitter is completely destroyed before 2024 and shuts down, which party does that benefit?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Definitely Democrats, largely because this means the absolutely most insufferable people on the left will be silence and will stop alienating voters.

[Vosem]

Democrats, because a successful Elon-led Twitter would have a serious chance at meaningfully shifting the narrative in ways that disfavor the current Democratic party. At the same time, it seems very unlikely that Twitter is completely destroyed before 2024 (though I can imagine an exodus I think that's also something that would've happened by this point).

[Ferguson97]

It would benefit Republicans, because it would slow the spread of misinformation and cause Republicans to be less crazy, making them more electable.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

It would benefit Republicans, because it would slow the spread of misinformation and cause Republicans to be less crazy, making them more electable.

You underestimate the amount of people that are misled by at least some misinformation. The fact that it exists (or still exists) should prove that it at least works (unfortunately). There is fake news that is blatant and clear, but there's also fake news that is way more subtle.

A good example is the recent thread on Iran we got. Even majority of Atlas believed it and agreed with dead0man while PSOL and me who said it was fake news or a bad source were attacked on the person and were attacked by most of Atlas and a few days later or a week later it was reported to be fake news. Even Trudeau did spread the fake news.

I'm talking about this thread: https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=529838.0 and this deleted tweet: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/trudeau-deletes-false-tweet-iran-mass-executions-intl/index.html

And this is another example of what could easily become fake news. The thread itself is true, but if people would say "it is proof that climate change does not exist, it becomes fake news". https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=532053.0 I've clearly said in the thread that for this weird fact, more moisture is the reason and not that it has gotten colder. But this also spreads on twitter by people claiming climate change is not real, and fake news on climate change is basically always like that, people not telling the full story or context, cherrypicking or posting highly suggestive graphs that don't give a good overview or tell the full story. You need the right context.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It would benefit Republicans, because it would slow the spread of misinformation and cause Republicans to be less crazy, making them more electable.

I would argue actually that misinformation on Twitter disproportionately affects Democrats, because Republican misinformation is more spread around Facebook and those RE: RE: RE: RE: type email chains.

Also while Republicans are prone to just make sh!t up Democrats often get caught up in things just based on misunderstandings or not having the full story. Here's a notable example I've given before:

The Atlanta area massage parlor shooter pled guilty to four off the murders he committed and news stories came out about this with the headline basically just being "Shooter pleads guilty to four murders." And then on Twitter came the performative outrage about "So the other four victims didn't matter?" and people screeching about how this proof the justice system really doesn't value women or Asians at all, etc. etc. And so someone would post an outraged take on this, someone else would see it and feel the need to match so they would reshare it with their own outraged take, and it all spread around, with the typical assortment of grifter "influencers" adding to the fire.

But there was actually a very simple and mundane explanation: unlike most mass shooters, he had committed his crimes in two counties instead of just one location, and therefore was facing two cases in two courts, one in each county. The four murders he pled guilty to were just for one county, he still faced the death penalty for the other four, and he had already been sentenced to life without parole anyway. And of course plenty of people did point that out, but with the way Twitter works it was basically just pissing in the wind and did nothing to stave the performative misinformed outrage.

There's other examples I could give too. Although arguably this type of misinformation doesn't really impact elections much, it just makes certain grifter types and regular culprits of spreading it like Shaun King look foolish...but yet they still keep get taken seriously by some for some reason.