I dunno, I’m just here for the lols.
The Elon Musk Twitter shitshow
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I dunno, I’m just here for the lols.
No, PF is just confused because he follows a bunch of brands on twitter and thinks they're ads.
Incorrect. See previous reply. “Promoted” at the bottom of the tweet means it is an ad.
Are you sure you didn't actually pay for it to be promoted?
The big question is whether PF is clinging to the notion that Musk is promoting unfettered free speech with Twitter.
Don’t use Twitter, never have, but the idea of getting the amount of “promoted” posts (ads) PF just shared seems nauseating.
Skyrocketing slurs, racism, and antisemitic content on Twitter may encourage domestic terrorists, report warns: 'Violence is inevitable'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/skyrocketing-slurs-racism-antisemitic-content-063451583.html
Oh look another media hit piece on the platform that threatens their existence.
So you're saying there has not been an increase of slurs, racism and antisemitic content on Twitter lately?
You are the definition of "fanboy". JFC.
No there hasn’t been.
The spike after the acquisition was a calculated bot/spam campaign by bad actors attempting to disparage the site. This activity was fake not genuine. It was done to manipulate people just like you.
As of 11/9:
It is no wonder a person like Trump can get elected in our country. We have so many gullible people who will believe absolutely anything their "chosen one" says and support anything he/she does. It's crazy how far people will stray from the obvious and proven.
He's just very passionate about some things. The Gamestop thread was some good entertainment too.
Uh...that's on your GOP buddies, who did NOT turn the device over to the FBI immediately.
If you cannot read the links, I cannot get you there.
You need basic reading comprehension skills.
Twitter was doing the bidding for BOTH political parties.
Except that ONE of them was using the actual powers of the US Government to quash information. Which is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
Are you unaware of what's going on inside Russia with respect to government-operated disinformation and quashing of free and open media? That what you are rooting for here? Because that's far from a "deal with it".
WTF? Yoel Roth was the acting Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter before the acquisition went through and at the time of those tweets. Your reply is just total nonsense.
Take a closer look at his graphs.
They do not "match up". In other words, Twitter has whitewashed this, by altering "definitions" to hide many of the incidents that occurred earlier.
NOTE that the peak in the later graphs is 1/2 what it is in the originals. Pretty big Red Flag there, and if someone tried to present this "data" in a publication, I'd ask them what caused this "change"....
It's not. You have gone completely off the deep end. The is Q level stuff for Musk. You will vehemently deny that and point to dozens of "examples" that you think support your position. All the while you are being duped and too blinded by your bias and need to be right to see it.
I am an admirer of Musk and the technologies he has helped to bring to the forefront of our society. Those are great for our society and will help pave the path toward the future. I also recognize he has been a narcissistic ass wipe with regard to Twitter. I am highly skeptical of anything he says or does at this point and I think it is hurting his brand. He can be both a visionary and highly successful with Tesla and SpaceX while also being a complete douchebag with Twitter.
It's already in the posts. Go back and re-read them if you didn't understand the first time.
You don’t know what the Trump White House was quashing. I’m sure there are acceptable things both parties could get quashed. I will reserve judgement until I know what it was.
We do know a political party censored a factual story that was detrimental to said political party and at the very least that should be looked at as an in kind donation. Not a single one of the intelligence officials that said it was Russian disinfo have been condemned. The polling shows this narrative (lie) changed the outcome of an election. It has been 3 elections in a row that the fbi has colluded against one party prior to Election Day. False Russian Collusion narrative , Lies about laptop, raiding Trump.
The disinformation campaigns going on in Russia happens right here too. Like when Joe Biden gathers up all the influencers on social media and gives them talking points.
Propaganda runs strong. Republicans do it too but there is a much greater willingness to call it out.
Good article about government working hand in glove with social media
I have a hard time believing it would be acceptable for the Trump administration to do the things described in that link.
All I saw was mostly character attacks. You seem on the ball, why not just do a quick concise 2 sentence listing of the lies?
Matt Tiabbi says they did it.
Quashing ANYTHING (aside from formal national security risks) is a violation of the Constitution. And if anything WERE a security risk, it'd have gone thru formal channels to do it.
So, yes, I DO know.
And we know it wasn’t a national security risk? Or a call to violence? I was told Trump had nuclear secrets at mar a lago, among many lies over the years, so pardon my hesitation to outright believe you.
If Matt had that info, he decided not to disclose it to you. Which implies that it was ALL politically motivated AND pushed by the WH.
Remember how the 1A explicitly prevents the use of the powers of the federal government to silence speech? Matt is trying to equate a campaign (Dems) with Trump doing it. And it's very very different.
So FBI showing up at social media places and telling them to censor doesn’t bother you… a political party getting an in kind donation to censor a story that hurts them doesn’t bother you.
At the very least it seems Twitter should be classified as a publisher as they were censoring one ideology significantly more than another. Might be different now with Musk at the helm who now has the hate of the left.
Huh?
That's "the government", spud.
Guess which party controlled the FBI at the time we're talking about in Tiabbi's posts?
Are you truly this dense? They originally put up safeguards to ban hate-speech and Neo-Nazi rhetoric; UNTIL that "speech" became indistinguishable from GOP candidate rhetoric.
Unless you're also a bigot and Nazi, that should concern you if you support a party who's speech cannot be separated from it. I think we know the answer here...
