The Elon Musk Twitter shitshow
- Thread starter CleteyColgate
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They are in a social media narrative war with Russia. Ukraine and its proxies pumped out some bull crap early on. Those accounts should be flagged and limited if they are just propaganda accounts. Russian accounts and bot accounts are flagged and limited as well. Dozens of solid media reporting sources out of Ukraine are operating just fine and receive tons of interactions and attention. You can’t see the difference?
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So?
Why are they being automatically downlisted? Individual accounts, based on their propaganda, I can see.
Not as a "category".
Twitter is the #1 news app on the AppStore in:
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United States 🇺🇸 Australia 🇦🇺 Germany 🇩🇪 France 🇫🇷 United Kingdom 🇬🇧 United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 India 🇮🇳 Japan 🇯🇵 Norway 🇳🇴 New Zealand 🇳🇿 South Africa 🇿🇦 Singapore 🇸🇬 Russia 🇷🇺 Italy 🇮🇹 Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 Venezuela 🇻🇪 Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 Uganda 🇺🇬 Turkey 🇹🇷 Tunisia 🇹🇳 Trinidad 🇹🇹 Thailand 🇹🇭 Taiwan 🇹🇼 Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Spain 🇪🇸 Romania 🇷🇴 Qatar 🇶🇦 Portugal 🇵🇹 Poland 🇵🇱 Phillippines 🇵🇭 Nigeria 🇳🇬 Nepal 🇳🇵 Namibia 🇳🇦 Mexico 🇲🇽 Mauritius 🇲 Korea 🇰🇷 Kenya 🇰🇪 Ireland 🇮🇪 Hungary 🇭🇺 Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Greece 🇬🇷 Finland 🇫🇮 Estonia 🇪🇪 Cyprus 🇨🇾 Croatia 🇭🇷 Colombia 🇨🇴 Brazil 🇧🇷 Argentina 🇦🇷
I suspect Frum is correct here.
Tiabbi "didn't do his own work" and got the story (and a paycheck) by just copying/pasting what Twitter sent him.
Probably because it really isn’t as bad as the angry screechy people make it seem. Some people choose to relentlessly find fault in others including contriving fault and judging intentions and motivations when they could not possibly know something to be true or false. perfect example is @Joes Place
Exactly.
Elon took away their propaganda arm and is making it what they claimed it was all along. People point to the money he lost but he didn't do it for the money. The best part will be in the end the platform will be light years better and he will almost certainly make a ton of money.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar invested because they believe in free speech?
Totally "normal" that Twitter isn't even following their own guidelines here, isn't it?
But Twitter’s own guidelines say it’s not about U.S. versus abroad, or even how much government support an outlet gets. The guidelines say the label is applied to pubs where the government exercises control over editorial content.
No; it actually is pretty bad.
Undermining actual free speech to confuse people is what authoritarian regimes do. It's a Russian disinformation tactic.
If they wrongly labeled NPR, they will fix it. When it happens, will you shut the hell up for 5 minutes? Goddamn outrage Queen.
Will they?
It was an obvious violation of their own guidelines; they even edited the original guidelines to exclude NPR and retain BBC (which also gets funding from it's own government, but has editorial independence).
Whether they fix it or not, it should never have happened. And the goal here is to undermine the credibility of independent news media. Again: a Russian disinformation tactic.
You seem to be getting testy, having to defend Musk all the time here.
Cognitive dissonance setting in?
I swear to God I thought Taibbi was getting paid to write agreeable things but it turns out he actually thought Elon was Deep Throat giving him a scoop? How?
That always seemed obvious. Same vibe I got from McCarthy giving Tucker exclusive access to the Capitol security tapes.
So Taibbi and the Twitter files were crap; Matt has never corrected his errors and embarrassed himself for Musk; and now he is leaving Twitter.
That my friends is a delightful combination of karma and Schadenfreude.
That my friends is a delightful combination of karma and Schadenfreude.
You guys are just too dumb to understand how this is 4d chess. The doge dog is part of it morons!!!
Poor Matty cannot go back to "check his own errors" anymore.
Wonder why that happened...
Sounds like the whole "Twitter Files" nonsense was a gigantic load of BS.
Which Matt Tiabbi cannot even "go back" now to re-check the stuff they wrote up for him to print.
