If social media metrics can be believed, Musk’s posts instantly win many more eyeballs. Trump’s Truth Social reportedly has 6.3 million active users; Musk’s X has an estimated 600 million.

The social and political consequences are big, and likely growing. Traditional media in America have served three different roles, and they’re losing influence in all three realms.

Zuckerberg didn’t like the first Social Network, and I can’t imagine he’ll be too happy with the follow-up—especially if it essentially paints his greatest creation as a virus on humanity. .