You'd have to isolate the political bias changes from all of the other changes, including loudly antagonizing advertisers.
Agreed on the general point, this stuff can’t really be disaggregated in a meaningful way, but of course it doesn’t need to be disaggregated: the overall set of Musk’s decisions have been extremely destructive to the company (so far).
I realize my poor grammar made it difficult to fully capture what I was trying to say.
My core argument is that I have now seen twice what looks like Yishan making excuses for moderation decisions that fall outside most people's discourse window.
I also am not making claims about what makes more money. It could possibly be true that people with a particular political pursuasion are more likely to convert.