Grok Jumps the Pooch
Surely a world-famous AI should be able to get itself a real artificial girlfriend.
[Update: Happy Thanksgiving! Even as the oligarchy spends our nation’s wealth hand over fist to make a shambles of Western Civilization, we have something for which to be thankful: US citizens are finally developing some belated resistance to the grift. Let’s get everyone pointed in the right direction rather than the problem-reaction-solution direction in which we are already being pushed!]
I occasionally post on social media platforms like FB and X (formerly Twitter). When I do, I try to tell the truth about what’s happening and why. Unfortunately, my efforts are thankless. No matter how loudly one of these platforms claims to be upholding Truth, Freedom, and the American Way, it always turns out to be just another node in the global surveillance / censorship / control complex, all of which are seemingly run by comatose vegetables sprouting cancerously in beds of synthetic AI nanoparticles.
On Facebook, the CTMU group is limited to just over 6K members. (Anyone who doesn’t recognize that this relatively low number is inconsistent with my reputation and ability has a thing or two to learn.) On X, my “followers” - who sign up to be notified whenever I post on the site - consistently report that they never receive such notifications. Every week, a couple hundred followers are being subtracted from my account just like clockwork. That number seems to have just increased.
This never used to happen. Occasionally, bots were purged, but such purges were not like the steady, inexplicable bleed that suddenly began several months ago. I made inquiries about it but received no credible explanation; after all, social media users are mere data points who lack the standing to question corporate executives or even their lowliest flunkies. But in any case, someone employed by X must be responsible. (While one might argue that “the algorithm” is responsible, it is designed, written, tuned, and tweaked by X employees.)
Where could the responsibility come to rest? Let’s ask Grok.
GROK: “Key Personnel and Roles at X
“Nikita Bier: Joined X in July 2025 as the Head of Product, focusing on app growth, user engagement, and leveraging AI (Grok) for “hyper-relevant timelines”.
“Kylie McRoberts: A long-time X staffer, she took on the role of Head of Safety in April 2024, leading the team responsible for content moderation and safety policies.
“Elon Musk: The owner of X, who acquired the platform in October 2022, has been deeply involved in changing content moderation policies, favoring a “freedom of speech, not reach” approach and relying heavily on Community Notes for fact-checking.”
Nikita Bier is the “Head of product” at X (formerly Twitter), a role he took in July 2025. While his job description fails to include content moderation, his hiring or promotion is roughly when the above problems began to occur. Content moderation at X is primarily overseen by Kylie McRoberts, who was named “Head of Safety” in April 2024. (If you wonder whose safety, rest assured it’s not yours or mine.) In that position, she would obviously take direction from Bier due to his authority in matters of “content engagement”. That is, if Bier doesn’t like people engaging with your content because it departs from his opinions and those of his superiors in the X / Musk / nanny state hierarchy, then all he needs to do is tell McRoberts to get on the stick and throttle you into abject submission.
Elon Musk is a rather mysterious figure at X. Whether he actually controls any of the companies or piles of money on which he seems to roost is a matter of conjecture. Given the size and number of “his” companies, the height of “his” money pile, and his forgotten apprenticeship under WEF front man Klaus Schwab, the odds are that Elon too is a front-man who can’t even twitch without express permission. But according to the above blurb, he is “deeply involved in changing content moderation policies, favoring a ‘freedom of speech, not reach’ approach.” This makes him the most probable (identifiable) source of my misery.
Of course, Musk’s distinction between speech and reach is total nonsense given that X deliberately ties them together to control “content engagement”. Reach is just a shorter word for communication - the passage of information between senders and receivers, with “0 reach” meaning “0 communication” - and communication is really all that X legitimately has to offer. Any further restrictions on the social or political opinions to be communicated imply that X is not the medium of open communication it pretends to be (the great lie that every social media platform exploits prior to its IPO), but a tool for promoting groupthink and enforcing cognitive orthodoxy.
In short, if X is not a malignant fraud misrepresenting itself as a socially benign entity, then its proper function is to facilitate open, honest communication by providing users with as much “reach” as their content attracts while minding its own business regarding free (civil, non-threatening) speech.