@rbreich@masto.ai I think this $ figure is kind of meaningless. It says something, but consider this: If you're Elon Musk and you own twitter/X then your cost of pulling levers not going to show up anywhere since it's zero. The same applies to Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. It also occurs to me that there's a new avenue for election influence: what happens if you ask those "AI" chat bots "Who should I vote for in the midterms?". I suspect that the answer won't be random though the "AI" companies will probably claim it is.