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> Not only do they "have" them,

1. Only if you are very sloppy with the meaning of the word "to have", which I wasn't.

> those users are literally the product the social media companies market and sell

2. No, they don't "have" those users. They have some of those users' attention, for as long as they can keep it. Not the same thing.

3. And once again, that is exactly the business model Twitter under Elon is trying to get away from, because it is driving the toxicity.



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