Elon Musk Shares Manipulated Harris Video, in Seeming Violation of X’s Policies

In a statement, the Harris campaign said, “The American people want the real freedom, opportunity and security Vice President Harris is offering; not the fake, manipulated lies of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.”

Perfect.

I love this "Emasculate the fragile strong men snowflakes." It's pretty effective.
That's why he doesn't want to debate. All she has to do is say that he doesn't have the mental fortitude to live in reality.
- doesn’t have the mental fortitude to live in reality.
  Perfectly said

The video mimics Ms. Harris’s voice, but instead of using her words from the original ad, it has the vice president saying that President Biden is senile, that she does not “know the first thing about running the country” and that, as a woman and a person of color, she is the “ultimate diversity hire.”

Here you go.

God that's bad. This is what I'd expected Russian trolls to do on Lemmy before getting down voted into oblivion, but I wouldn't expect a CEO to do this. This is fucked up.
- You can't train a Russian bot to sound as stupid as Musk - the tech just isn't there yet.
- Dude got his start with Apartheid money. Stste-sponsord discrimination is why he exists.
Jesus fucking Christ
I think a nickname like diversity hire Kamala would be the best they could do. However it’s not a great nickname cause all she has to do is talk a little, sound competent and the name kind of falls apart.
Still better than laughing Kamala, that just sounds like a children’s toy.

in Seeming Violation of X's Policies

But of course. That is why he bought the company -- to become un-bannable.

“Nobody can hurt my feelings ever again!”
- Does that mean Musk is a snowflake?
I shall be come ungovernable -A long Musty

I just can't believe anyone still uses Twitter for any purpose.

At this point remaining active on the platform is more or less unethical.

A lot of sites have weight. Twitter sheds users every day but the large user count makes it attractive to public figures and if you want to follow that public figure you need to have twitter.
- My point is, it's becoming unethical for public figures and their followers to remain on the platform.
- That's why the more prominent the public figure is, the bigger ethical obligation they have to switch to Mastodon and force their followers to follow.
- Yeah but to me it's insane that public people that have publicists or companies that have communications staff simply don't cross post to multiple sites.
  Sure for a regular person that's a lot of work to do when just posting a random thought. But for someone who's job involves posting things to social media? Most of the work is coming up with the copy. Once that's done it's just copying and pasting to different sites.
more or less unethical.
Even before that, it just funnels value from users to a monopoly that does not innovate or improve user experience. It’s like the freemium model without much benefit in exchange for your data.
3 Qs:
Musk sux
If you advised Kamala and she created a Mastodon account and tried to funnel people there, but not everyone left, would you advise her to at least post screenshots of her Mastodon posts or “see my post about $subject on Masto here: $url” whenever she had something to say?
If you’re Kamala and your crystal ball proved posting on the dumpster fire site would bring you the one extra voter who will sway the election - would you take a utilitarian approach and keep dumpsterposting?
- if Kampala staying on Twitter meant winning the election then sure.
  It's my strongly held opinion that it won't significantly effect the outcome. A savvy media team could play it to her advantage.
  Honestly how many swing voters are going to follow Kamala.
I use it to keep up with Street Fighter pros.
And watch a little of the dumpster fire burn. I report all of Musks posts that break policy and kinda surprised my account isn't suspended yet.
“Less unethical” if you’re a journalist. Investigative reporters can visit nazi bars with 335m people if they bring us the goods about what the nazis are saying!
- Sure I guess.
  I have the luxury of not having to decide.
  I'm not going to judge someone who feels they absolutely need to participate on twitter in order to avoid poverty.
  I certainly wouldn't like to do that myself.
I use twitter to complain about products at brands, it's more effective than you think.
Twitter just has too much momentum. It's unshakable from its cultural position as it is now. It will take more than the alt-right openly congregating in their own circles to scare ordinary people away.
- I disagree.
  If anything the momentum is moving against it. The only question is how long it will take for alternatives to become viable and / or for twitter to lose its network effect.
  Presently its only the inertia of users maintaining the network effect.
  When the owner starts publishing misinformation I'm order to manipulate an election, that's something more than merely a consideration of features, users, and UX. Users really ought to emphatically withdraw their support, even in cases where it may be inconvenient.

everyday I'm thankful that Musk is not an US born citizen and cannot run for office. It's the only thing stopping him

It keeps you out of the Pres and VP office, but there are plenty of other offices.
- There's almost a 0% chance musk gets even remotely close to any cali government position with just public voting
  Literally a laughingstock
- I think he prefers the passenger seat of his jet plane.

Next thing you know, Musky will order staff to create entirely false tweets on official accounts and lock the accounts so the false tweets can't be deleted. He will burn that entire company to the ground to get TFG back in.

At this point I'm convinced that Musk fully intends on world domination. The man is psychotic, he subscribes to the idea that we all live in a simulation and further that he's the only real player.
Him and Thiel are literally the people that all of the conservative NWO conspiracies worried about and somehow the conservatives are lining up to suck their dicks.
- Because there's only thing worse than a new world order, and that's not being at the top of the new world order
- I hope some crackhead with the same beliefs as Musk who is just poor fucken shanks Musk, preferably with a triangle bayonet.
TFG?
- The Former Guy. He was in Home Alone, starred in some reality show and sold steaks for a while.
- Thank Fod is Griday
TFG? The fucking ghoul?
Which, if that worked, would be a spendy but powerful play for turning the US into a one party autocracy.
Benefits (for musk): He doesn't need to manipulate elections anymore
Hazards: He now needs to manipulate the new regime.
Also the one party autocracy is not popular and depends on fascist rhetoric, eventually a war to keep the social unrest manageable. That doesn't work long term, and Musk is a clear collaborator

i love how irrelevant elon made twitter. like the big companies may not be on alternative networks but you also dont see hashtags and advertisements to discuss something on twitter anymore like you used to in the 10s

Unfortunately that was his task. Twitter was a pivotal tool in the Arab spring, second largest investor in Twitter after musk were the Saudis. Musk is such a try hard wannabe goon that when the "real" money told him they'd think he was cool if he bought and fucked up Twitter (and they would totally let him ride dirtbikes with them when he was done!) he jumped at the chance.
- I honestly believe that he was backed into a corner and this was his out. His mouth wrote checks he literally couldn't cash, and when he was forced to fork over the money, the spiteful little shit was like "Ok, well these oligarchs would like to see Twitter festroyed anyway, so let's do that."
- Yes, it was an attack on journalism
- Relying on private corp tools is not sustainable. We can’t expect our oppressors help us break the chains.
- I don't buy this conspiracy theory at all, 1) twitter is disinformation heaven, which is very useful to authoritarian regimes and 2) Musky would never intentionally do anything to harm his public image, he's a textbook narcissist after all.
'in the 10s'
.. man I feel old now lol.
- Was wondering when we are gonna use decade names.
  Finally!!!

I thought X got rid of all of the sane policies that twitter had?

I mean isn't X officially a white supremacist platform now anyways?

And EVERY single news organization in the US uses it both as their primary platform AND source for news.
Even fucking NPR. What the actual fuck is that about ?
90% of screenshots on Lemmy are from Twitter ffs. It boggles my mind, and I am not easily boggled.
- The problem is consensus. No one can make consensus on abandoning the site happen.
- I thought NPR left Twitter when Musk had them labeled as "state controlled media"
Musky wanted to do that but Europe threatened to ban Twitter so now he just pretends that there are rules.

Is anyone the least bit shocked at the "rules for thee" behavior from these subhuman pieces of shit? Why are we allowing them to be in charge of anything again?

Because people won't leave Xitter. Mastodon was propped up expressly as a replacement, but the bird yet lives.
- I think this is the reason for all word’s problems, not enough people are willing to give up a tiny luxury (in this case addiction) when that’s what we need to move forward.
- I didn't vote for Elon.
Inherited wealth centralizes money and power, and egregious hoarding like billionaire level centralized wealth makes people greedy, paranoid, and disconnected from the reality most other people experience.
I wanted to comment "Who watches the watchers" but it's not even funny

I hope Harris wins and I really hope she is a petty and vindictive person that goes out of her way to make Imon Ketamusk's life a pain in the ass.

You don’t even need to be petty and vindictive to correct the situation where a single unelected person has that much power.

That name should be some sort of verb or something, “lets not Musk this up” or “are you really that Musk?” I dunno something like that

"I hate that site, I hope someone Musks it up soon"
- “Oohh you fucking elon…”
"I sure hope he doesn't get Munson'd"

I hate it when these articles never include the video. How am I supposed to learn about manipulation if I'm "being protected against it"?

You can find it without them boosting it for free. But you don't have to watch it to understand the story

I am so shocked!

(Not)

If my younger self from like 3 years ago heard generating videos can be a prompt away and can make gigantic amounts of misinformation, he would shit himself and probably write a manifesto, but fuck me this is still insane today!

I can't tell whether 3 years ago you were pre-potty training but fully literate, or whether you've simultaneously learned better emotional regulation and sphincter control in the past few years.
- People tend to change more, psychologically speaking, between 18-25. They might have been 17-18 three years ago. Makes sense with the manifesto comment.

Elon seems to be a deep shit blackhole. The more shit is there the more shit is attracted.

This is the third post I'm seing about this. But STILL NO VIDEO LINK.

Good, for once people are deciding to limit outrage and not continue to distribute and share things that are false. If we did this with every piece of bullshit outrage bait or weird rumor or conspiracy theory we would reduce some of the worst movements and viral trends we all hate.
I found one that could be it but I don't want to bring attention to it if I'm wrong.
- Disinformation misinformation - you’re Just Saying No :)
it also appeared in some credible news sites wo the link as well. Dont know about the credibility of this one but it has the link
https://www.livemint.com/news/fake-manipulated-lies-says-kamala-harris-campaign-after-elon-musk-shares-ai-generated-parody-clip-without-disclaimer-11722214142580.html

twitter?

i, for one, am chagrined

This is what Biden should have been doing since 2020, it wouldn't even have been a close race.

To be honest, I’m not sure how posting AI fake videos of Harris would have helped
- Wait, what the heck. My comment wasn't meant for this post?
  Was the original post changed?