Social media infrastructures and right wing political attitudes
* The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
Gauthier, G., Hodler, R., Widmer, P. et al. The political effects of X’s feed algorithm. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
* A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly >>
https://theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-of-xs-algorithm-can-make-you-more-right-wing-and-it-doesnt-wear-off-quickly-276153
* The TESCREAL bundle ( Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, (modern) Cosmism, Rationalists ): Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence. "We argue that the normative framework that motivates much of this goal is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition of the twentieth century." >>
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL
* Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
"Elon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat..." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists
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