Musk offers to buy Twitter
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A small, almost petty point, but in most of the pictures, and it looks like this one as well, he’s also wearing his hat backwards. He didn’t know nor care to learn how to wear his prop hat properly.He's a piece of human garbage. Richest man on Earth, looking down on the poorest, for a streaming stunt.
He's a piece of human garbage. Richest man on Earth, looking down on the poorest, for a streaming stunt.
But when it’s for the war in Ukraine, it’s bad …
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Elon proves again that he is a POS:
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College student sues Musk for falsely calling him a “psyop” in neo-Nazi brawl
"Yet another one of Elon Musk’s reckless smears."
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I’ll believe it when see it …
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Breakingviews - Elon Musk’s X is a black hole of value
X is still worth something, but not for the people running it. Boss Linda Yaccarino is set to present her plans for the social network formerly known as Twitter to bankers holding nearly $13 billion of its debt, the Financial Times reported. Looming over talks is the likelihood that X’s value is...
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… and it is painted as a worst case scenario (for them). So no one should get their hopes up too high about a return to sanity on the platform.
yes Elon’s latest thing has to been to remove headlines from link previews on his own site … I guess as a way to discourage legacy media from posting? You know the only people keeping his lights on.
Oh and then there’s this:
What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? A fired Trump White House staffer offers a tantalizing clue
A year after the world's richest man acquired the social media platform, a game plan published by a fired Trump White House staffer provides a clue.
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Not sure what to make of it myself but it’s certainly something …
Weirdly ads still show headlines, funny that. Also Elon’s latest brainwave is to remove all the interaction buttons/symbols (likes, retweets, etc …) from feed scrolls so people don’t see them unless they click on the post. To reduce visual clutter of course, not to make it harder to see that one of Elon’s posts has been ratio-ed to oblivion. Also social media thrives on interaction, so putting more friction on that is the opposite of how you make money (while actually probably healthier for people in the long run, Elon removed the friction that was specifically about making interaction healthier so it’s clearly not about that).
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Accidentally posted this in the 23 and Me hack thread which unfortunately also talks about the rise of antisemitism so it did sorta fit:
This White Nationalist was promoted by Musk because he was another loud voice decrying censorship on the internet and had played a role in the Twitter Files, consulting with Taibbi and Shellenberger before their appearances before the House Committee meetings, and was even cited by Jim Jordan during those. Just for anyone with lingering doubts that the Twitter Files weren’t full of shit. And of course Trump administration.
This White Nationalist was promoted by Musk because he was another loud voice decrying censorship on the internet and had played a role in the Twitter Files, consulting with Taibbi and Shellenberger before their appearances before the House Committee meetings, and was even cited by Jim Jordan during those. Just for anyone with lingering doubts that the Twitter Files weren’t full of shit. And of course Trump administration.
This was shared on Twitter by India’s BJP party, currently in government led by Modi:
As one commentator put it, that it’s sad how globalization really is suffocating out the bespoke, local cottage industry of conspiracy theories and replacing them with conspiracy theories of industrial scale sameness.
As one commentator put it, that it’s sad how globalization really is suffocating out the bespoke, local cottage industry of conspiracy theories and replacing them with conspiracy theories of industrial scale sameness.
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Musk reminds me more and more of Trump. Now he wants the SEC investigators to be punished, because they are "harassing" him:
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Musk refused to testify in Twitter stock probe, claimed SEC is harassing him
After being sued by SEC, Musk says he wants US regulators to be punished.
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In addition to horrifying pictures and video, Twitter is currently drowning in disinformation, monetized by blue checks. This is also happening on other platforms. Please be careful out there! Especially when it comes to violent, grisly images/video, some things are hard to unsee.
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