Musk and Netanyahu blame “armies of bots” for spreading antisemitism on X
Musk and Netanyahu blame “armies of bots” for spreading antisemitism on X
Israeli prime minister praised Musk's "opposition to antisemitism" in X chat.
Today, Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu livestreamed a discussion largely focused on the future of AI on Musk's platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Bots? You mean the very things he pledged to get rid of before buying Twitter? Theyre still on Twitter?
I cant believe it
The guy who got rid of all the controls that limited hate speech, and who invited back a whole bunch of people who got kicked off previously for hate speech, is all shocked-pikachu at the surge of hate speech following his actions.
The guy who got rid of all the controls that limited hate speech
Which has Germany in a position to crack down hard on him, and yet they still didn't for some reason. Hundreds of cases of hate speech that could amount to a fine big enough to take this platform away from him.
Germany, please do something already
And now monetized acting like a shitlord..
Double pika shocker...
Considering that I get a few new bot followers every day, and has been for probably over a year now, but my total follower count isn't increasing much, I'm quessing they're indeed removing these accounts, but new ones just keep popping up. That would pretty much be on par with why he says he's going to start charging for it.
He's not wrong considering half of elons followers are bots
It's amazing how he has no control of bots on his website.
I think he just admitted to being a bot himself.
For anyone out of the loop on Israeli politics: Netanyahu is evil enough to make Musk look like child's play. What a fucking panel.
Fuck them both.
I didn't really have an opinion on the Israel/Palestine conflict or about Netanyahu as a person before he was a quest on Lex Fridman's podcast. He seemed like an extremely disingenuous person, with obviously very politician answers to the questions presented to him. That made me, for the first time, to look into what this conflict is about and though it's still quite nuanced, my view however isn't especially favourable to Israel now.
That's probably the best description of the situation anyone could make. Israel is in a tough spot where they are custodians of a state that from ~1930 till ~2015 has had the stated goal of destroying Israel. It's only in very recent years that Palestinian sentiment has even toyed with coexisting. Outside of the situation the neighboring states still hold that sentiment and have tried to destroy Israel multiple times since ~1940. It also doesn't help that the pseudo-government of Palestine are current and former terrorists.
All that said Israel's government is very authoritarian and has not handled the custodianship adequately and the people of Israel seem to simply be ignoring the situation.
I just want to add some nuance here as I have family and friends living in Israel - it’s not that the Israeli population is ignoring the situation (see the massive protests against Netanyahu and his goal to override the Supreme Court), it’s just that there is a significant portion of the population that are religious extremists. Many of them do not work and just procreate. They vote diligently and have friends in high places. Most Israelis want to coexist with their Palestinian neighbours but it’s the religious extremists that are ensuring this does not happen.
So he met with Netanyahu to prove he's not an anti-semite. What other than being personally pissed can warrant an out of blue direct and public chat with a prime minister of Israel. Itsa man, nah, itsa child, no, its Elon Musk!
Too bad he can't delete those posts. If only someone could make a decision to remove those. Oh what will we do?
Lol
I honestly don't know which of these two I think is the bigger threat to humanity. Although Musk doesn't have nukes at his disposal, so maybe I do know after all.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The livestreamed event started with a one-on-one between Musk and Netanyahu that attracted more than 735,000 views.
While much of the one-on-one focused on AI—which Musk claimed was "potentially the biggest civilizational threat" and Netanyahu called "a blessing and a curse"—the men also discussed their views on antisemitism and how Musk deals with hate speech on X.
And all I could say is, I hope you find within the confines of the First Amendment the ability to stop not only antisemitism, or roll it back as best you can, but any collective hatred of people."
Netanyahu noted that X's policy didn't stop Musk from condemning antisemitism every chance he got.
The entire conversation remained strictly agreeable, with Netanyahu's only pushback coming about 25 minutes in.
The prime minister asked Musk if it was "technically possible" to limit "armies of bots" from amplifying hate speech on X.
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(This is a reminder that Twitter refers to impressions as views to inflate the numbers so it's 735,000 impressions)