X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information
X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information
Critics say decision by Elon Musk-owned company is ‘extremely concerning’ ahead of Australia’s Indigenous voice to parliament referendum
Critics say decision by Elon Musk-owned company is ‘extremely concerning’ ahead of Australia’s Indigenous voice to parliament referendum
It's amusing to consider that Musk could have bought one of the many dying alt-right Twitter clones and achieved the same results for billions of dollars less. But no, he had to turn Twitter itself into a dying Twitter clone.
In doing so, he destroyed Twitter.
Which is exactly what was meant to happen, to either turn it into a tool of the right and foreign parties, or destroy it.
Remember, the first thing crackpot dictators did in the past decade, whenever there was an uprising, was to block Twitter from being accessed.
There's nothing unique about twitter that makes it irreplaceable, and in fact the alternative of a post twitter world is worse for dictatorships. Imagine trying to block every mastodon and Lemmy server, most or all of which aren't in your borders, none of them have a commercial presence you can use as a hostage, and who would all tell you to go fuck yourself
Here I am wondering if he just asks GPTChat what to do for every business decision and follows it blindly.
He also bought it to get Trump reinstated, but failed to convince him to return, and so winds up competing with him to convince the most ignorant demographic to come back instead.
edit: and then tried to leverage DeSantis with a comic failure of an event, and now is in a weird limbo between them because DeSantis sucks on his platform and Trump sucks off his platform.
Getting kinda sick of those whole "Elon bought Twitter to destroy it!" Perspective. Read the history.
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He was trying to manipulate stocks (successfully) like he has for years.
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Finally, it caught up with him and didn't work and he was forced to buy it or get sued.
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He tried really hard for months to "reinvent it".
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He's really really fucking stupid and with his drug habits and wealth, doesn't live in a state of reality
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Twitter gets worse and worse because his knee jerk solutions aren't working. Because unlike his other companies that run with competent people who block Musk from intervening, Twitter was pure Musk at the helm.
Stop with the conspiracy bs. There's so much documented resources to follow this history.
You're right and you should keep on saying it.
The thing that annoys me the most about this ridiculous theory is that it's just playing right back into the deluded notion that he's some kind of genius.
He's not. He went to court to try to get out of buying Twitter. They had to force him into it.
He never actually wanted to buy the bloody thing, and now he's just doing the best he can with a bad deal. And it turns out his best really, really sucks.
And for the people out there touting the "Actually the Saudis are forcing him to tank it" version of this nonsense, please try to answer these two questions;
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What kind of insane leverage do they have on him that he'd be willing to burn $200bn of his net worth over this (which is roughly what it's cost him when you factor the damage to the Tesla share price, and that's not counting the almost a billion in interest he's paying the Saudis every year for those loans)?
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If he knew the plan was to set this thing on fire, why would he attach the X name to it? X is Musk's precious little baby (literally as well as figuratively); it's been his obsession his entire adult life. Musk has never stopped trying to make X.com happen. His obsession with it is what got him booted out of PayPal. If the plan was to give Twitter a Viking funeral, why in God's name would he take something so important to him and throw it on the pyre?
Actually the Saudis are forcing him to tank it
If that's directed at me, please actually read what I said.
They aren't forcing him to do anything. He's a useful idiot.
Anyone could and did see he'd either steer it politically to be more in their favor, or the idiot he is, would destroy it through sheer incompetence.
They aren't making him do anything, they just saw the cards on the table and thanked Allah.
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This should become a copypasta, or stickied to every thread relating to the sometimes slow, sometimes fast, trainwreck that is X'itter.
I agree on most of it, but I have genuine conspiracy theories I can't let go of about the end of the "state media" flag. Applying the state media flag to BBC and CBC and NPR was an excellent way to kill it for his Saudi and Russian friends.
His drug use? Never heard of this before. I also haven't heard that the competent people block him from making a difference. If anything I've heard of frustrations from other boards because he is lowering the stock of Tesla and distracted from leading the companies.
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I'm honestly surprised that feature lasted this long given how often it was used to embarrass Musk personally when he was spreading blatant misinformation and utter idiocy.
It's easily the best idea Twitter ever had. I'd like to imagine that other social media platforms will pick up on it, but that's probably too much to hope for.
!murderedbywords@feddit.uk is going to take a hit.
Every week it’s something new with that fuckin place.
We should take mastodon and rename it to twitter2. Just to fuck with his ego in showing that it’s better.
You could register the twitter2.com domain, fire up a mastodon instance and go with it.
Just name it twitter as that name's not being used by anyone anymore
Twotter
Oooh so is that why it's called tooting? :D Twooting!
I can understand Twitters move. The way things are pointing at Twitters user community, if they have to remove objectionable content, they'll soon have nothing but empty pages.
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Can't be responsible for hosting objectionable content if nobody can point to it.
They could allow user to highlight not misleading informations, it would be a much faster work, seeing how many b******t are on that site.
About the link, it's sad the Indigenous will be hit, but I bet they are unfortunately just the first... We can only hope the common people will start to understand what a s**tshow is that site and move to mastodon
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Sadly, the Voice referendum is going to have majority 'no' vote regardless of Musk.
Haven't heard of it before, why wouldn't it pass? Can't believe it's that controversial...
@Kecessa There's been a massive disinformation campaign against the Voice, largely lead by the conservative side of politics and often tying into racist conspiracy theories.
The most outlandish one I've heard is that the Voice is part of a secret Australian Federal Government plan to hand all the land back to Indigenous Australians... as if any government would ever voluntarily give up its land and power. 🙄
it's rogue