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"Catturd" gets more X engagement than the New York Times

Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things [Unofficia… April 9, 2026
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Catturd — a right-wing pseudonymous account — routinely outperforms the New York Times on X. The Times has built a following of 53 million accounts, but its posts typically generate a few hundred likes or replies. Nate Silver, the statistician behind FiveThirtyEight and the Silver Bulletin newsletter, tracked X's top engagement accounts for 2026 and found them dominated by low-quality, highly partisan content. — Read the rest

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