X is all too happy to give hate a home

This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on [Bloomberg]( This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on web readership. [The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X]( — Dave Lee A man was murdered in my neighborhood on Monday. Ryan Carson was waiting at a bus stop with his girlfriend just before 4 a.m. when a man stabbed him repeatedly in the chest. The couple had been at a wedding. A video of the attack, obtained initially by the New York Post, was soon seized upon by one of X’s newest “stars” — one of those users who has thrived under the new Elon Musk regime at the former Twitter. His feed (which I will not publicize) is a stream of incendiary incidents from around the world, posted several times a day to an audience that is approaching a million followers. Photographer: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images I don’t follow this account, but X’s algorithm makes absolutely sure that I see what it has to say. A senseless murder is apparently a content opportunity not to be missed. The user’s post on Tuesday contained all the ingredients for success: It was timely. It was shocking. It was an innocent 32-year-old man dying on the streets of New York City. It was a chance, duly taken, to write an inflammatory comment on Carson’s work in public policy, as though it had somehow led to this moment, as though he had it coming. As I rode the subway home to Bedford-Stuyvesant, I watched as the video clocked 1 million views, then 2 million. Up up up. Disgusting replies flooded in by the thousands: That’s what you get for supporting woke policies; should have carried a gun; looks planned. By the time I got home, I had deleted the app from my phone. Read the [whole thing]( for free. [Democrats Share the Blame for McCarthy’s Fall]( — Michael R. Bloomberg [SBF’s Defense Will Be Tough]( — Matt Levine [New York Says Trump Committed Fraud. Now Comes the Price Tag.]( — Timothy L. O’Brien [The US Deserves a Better Vaccine Rollout Than This]( — Lisa Jarvis [India’s Banks Are Making $64 Billion From a Freebie]( — Andy Mukherjee [The Yield Curve Moves to a Fatal Dis-Inversion]( — John Authers [There Is a Bigger Threat to US Trade Than Chinese Chips]( — Tim Culpan [Ireland's Economy Is Like a Billionaire Tech Bro]( — Lionel Laurent [How to Save the Nobel Peace Prize]( — Bobby Ghosh More From Bloomberg Opinion Here’s what we’ve been listening to this week. - [Crash Course: The Truth About Rupert Murdoch]( with Timothy L. O’Brien Follow Us You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Opinion Today newsletter. If a friend forwarded you this message, [sign up here]( to get it in your inbox. [Unsubscribe]( [Bloomberg.com]( [Contact Us]( Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022 [Ads Powered By Liveintent]( [Ad Choices](