Now, he added, the site is dominated by “a lot of hate right wing actors and disinformation.” But even as they trash the site, they aren’t ready to quit it either. Aides continue to tweet — as does the president. They debated, internally, the merits of leaving the platform, but determined it would be a mistake to leave even the crass political debates unattended. As Flaherty put it: X “remains as valuable as the reporters who remain on it let it be.” Instead, they are adapting to the bare-knuckled nature of X by trying to shape it. Largely, they’ve used...