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A wave of “environmentally oriented” users abandoned the site after Elon Musk took over, according to a study published this week in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Musk welcomed back people who had previously been barred for posting harmful content, including accounts that spread lies about climate change.

“I’ll only post new material on Mastodon, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other platforms that may develop over time that offer opportunities to communicate and interact with justice, respect, and ethical perspectives now utterly abandoned here,” he says.

The company essentially priced many researchers out when it started charging up to tens of thousands of dollars a month for access to its API, which lets third-party developers gather data.

Environmental advocates might even want to launch some kind of campaign to migrate people to a new platform of their choice, the paper says, “so that there are continued opportunities for information exchange, mobilization, and research.”

After The Verge reached out to X, it responded with an email saying, “We’ll get back to you soon.” The line has become a typical response to reporters, replacing a poop emoji that was a standard reply for months after Musk’s takeover.

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