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In the three years since Elon Musk took control of Twitter and made it into X, nobody has gotten a more intimate view of the site’s transformation than Will Stancil. If you know his name, it’s a sign that you’ve seen (or perhaps joined) some intense online arguments among American liberals, progressives, and leftists over the past decade. Stancil’s forcefully held ideas about how media consumption affects political power have gotten him into a million left-on-left arguments over the years, though not as a loyal foot soldier for any particular wing of the Democratic Party. The 40-year-old civil rights lawyer is an intense fighter, so much so that he’s one of the few

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