Musk offers to buy Twitter

dada_dave said:
That guy finally got suspended.

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Doubt is will be a permanent ban though, that would be taking things too far! Free speech and all.
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His tweets probably ended up next to some ads. Look at how many likes the guy gets on those tweets, that platform is a total shithole of radicals.
 
It’s a mystery why the ADL says Elon has let antisemitism run rampant on his platform:

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dada_dave said:
I can only read the title and the beginning blurb:

www.wsj.com

WSJ News Exclusive | Justice Department Probe Scrutinizes Elon Musk Perks at Tesla Going Back Years

Federal prosecutors are scrutinizing personal benefits Tesla may have provided Elon Musk since 2017—longer than previously known—as part of a criminal investigation examining issues including a proposed house for the chief executive.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com

Sounds serious though. If it comes to something probably would warrant its own thread.
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Sometimes when you bite the hand that feeds you it punches back.
 
This should come as no surprise to anyone. It's a total shithole of right wing misinformation.

www.nbcnews.com

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, ranks last in climate ‘scorecard’

The report assessed policies that social media companies had established pertaining to climate misinformation.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, ranks last in climate misinformation ‘scorecard​

The report assessed policies that social media companies had established pertaining to climate misinformation.
 
Eric said:
This should come as no surprise to anyone. It's a total shithole of right wing misinformation.

www.nbcnews.com

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, ranks last in climate ‘scorecard’

The report assessed policies that social media companies had established pertaining to climate misinformation.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, ranks last in climate misinformation ‘scorecard​

The report assessed policies that social media companies had established pertaining to climate misinformation.
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The EU has found the same and not just on climate change but overall:

kyivindependent.com

EU Commission names social platform X leading disinformation source

EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova noted that compared to other major players such as Facebook, Google, YouTube, TikTok, or LinkedIn, the X platform has the largest ratio of misinformation and disinformation posts.
kyivindependent.com kyivindependent.com

ec.europa.eu

Press statement of Vice-President Jourova on the meeting with the Code of Practice on Disinformation Signatories

Today, I wanted to update you on progress under anti-disinformation Code. Just to remind you, the Code has now 44 signatories, including major online platforms such as Facebook, Google, YouTube, TikTo
ec.europa.eu ec.europa.eu
 
I just can’t believe enough people won’t quit Twitter in order to kill it. My wife (who will not quit) simply insists that everyone who matters to her is still on it, with a hold-the-ground type of mindset. To me, chucking Musk is the priority. The way to do that is to devalue Twitter to zero-point-zero dollars. Even if he doesn’t give up the Twitter brand name, everyone could finally move on to ANYTHING else. They’re treating it like it’s a valuable piece of land. It’s not, I’m sure of this. Musk’s ownership has made it forever toxic. Burn it down, start over.
 
Edd said:
I just can’t believe enough people won’t quit Twitter in order to kill it. My wife (who will not quit) simply insists that everyone who matters to her is still on it, with a hold-the-ground type of mindset. To me, chucking Musk is the priority. The way to do that is to devalue Twitter to zero-point-zero dollars. Even if he doesn’t give up the Twitter brand name, everyone could finally move on to ANYTHING else. They’re treating it like it’s a valuable piece of land. It’s not, I’m sure of this. Musk’s ownership has made it forever toxic. Burn it down, start over.
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I think it will take an exodus by these people before it will make any impact. Many of the regular users have left but celebrities, media, and influential people refuse to to do so.

Look at Stephen King and LeBron James, they refused to pay for the checkmark and Elon forced on them, they were like "oh okay then" with zero pushback (or backbone).

The other thing is while Threads was pretty exciting at first they appear to be failing as viable alternative, they still have not incorporated many of the features, such as hash tags, DM's, etc. and it's costing them.
 
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Edd said:
I just can’t believe enough people won’t quit Twitter in order to kill it. My wife (who will not quit) simply insists that everyone who matters to her is still on it, with a hold-the-ground type of mindset. To me, chucking Musk is the priority. The way to do that is to devalue Twitter to zero-point-zero dollars. Even if he doesn’t give up the Twitter brand name, everyone could finally move on to ANYTHING else. They’re treating it like it’s a valuable piece of land. It’s not, I’m sure of this. Musk’s ownership has made it forever toxic. Burn it down, start over.
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I had a hard time quitting it. I used it mostly to get information from some of my personal and business vendors latest information. However I found myself finding more and more of the extremist crap on my feed. It became like an abusive relationship, where I saw the good in them for brief moments between the awful ones. It took two tries to finally end the relationship.

I actually started it again, when we were flying out into Hurricane Hillary from Boston to Las Vegas. What I found is that I couldn't trust the information that was being reported, because I no longer trusted X for correct information. I found out that my suspicions where right, more than half the information was either old clips of Vegas flooding or just made up lies. So I have left the platform again... And this time I mean it. :)
 
rdrr said:
I had a hard time quitting it. I used it mostly to get information from some of my personal and business vendors latest information. However I found myself finding more and more of the extremist crap on my feed. It became like an abusive relationship, where I saw the good in them for brief moments between the awful ones. It took two tries to finally end the relationship.

I actually started it again, when we were flying out into Hurricane Hillary from Boston to Las Vegas. What I found is that I couldn't trust the information that was being reported, because I no longer trusted X for correct information. I found out that my suspicions where right, more than half the information was either old clips of Vegas flooding or just made up lies. So I have left the platform again... And this time I mean it. :)
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If I can do it, you can too. :)

As soon as it was confirmed that Elon took over...
Eric said:
Poof. Just like that I'm gone, I had over 8000 followers. It's gone down hill over the years and I've all but stopped posting anyway but at least I'm leaving on my own terms. I've come to absolutely loathe Elon Musk, to the point that I even regret owning one of his cars now (which I love), I don't want to participate in giving that egomaniacal asshole one more cent from my pocket. Hopefully with the flood of new EVs I'll be able to find something comparable when it's time to buy again.
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Edd said:
To me, chucking Musk is the priority. The way to do that is to devalue Twitter to zero-point-zero dollars.
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Or … you could start up a social media platform and call it "Twitter", since the thing that Elno operates no longer uses that name and he has abandoned the trademark. Just a "Twitter.social" in the federation might be enough.
 
Altaic said:
Really?! WTH, that’s crazy.
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No. Trademark serial number 77721751 has not been abandoned. And twitter.com still redirects, meaning it is still used in commerce, so even if they did abandon the federal trademark they would presumably still have state law rights under state trademark and unfair competition laws.
 

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