Concretely, this certainly means that Twitter is going to manipulate Trending. Probably also ranking in search. Twitter is headed the route of insidious mind manipulation where people aren't even fully aware of being manipulated.
I think it is best to do now what we should have done years ago:
Build up alternative communications platforms
Bring others away from main-stream social media (MSSM) to there
Concretely, this certainly means that Twitter is going to manipulate Trending. Probably also ranking in search. Twitter is headed the route of insidious mind manipulation where people aren't even fully aware of being manipulated.
I think it is best to do now what we should have done years ago:
The Twitter alternative most free by design is
ActivityPub federated microblogging
See also
How to use decentralized or distributed network communication