Elon & Twitter

[Electroman]

SokejS

I can absolutely assure you NYT doesn’t worry even a little about Twitter

I can assure you NYT and media in general are quite wary of lying outright, as they know Twitter is watching and will expose them.

 

[Electroman]

SokejS

I can assure you NYT and media in general are quite wary of lying outright, as they know Twitter is watching and will expose them.

Bloomberg Presstitute lies and gets exposed on Twitter... <drum roll> by a well known TSLAQ. Oh the irony !!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1663587502362615809

 

[JRP3]

Bloomberg Presstitute lies and gets exposed on Twitter... <drum roll> by a well known TSLAQ. Oh the irony !!

Ironically no one on the TSLAQ block list will see his tweet.

 

[qdeathstar]

SokejS

I can assure you NYT and media in general are quite wary of lying outright, as they know Twitter is watching and will expose them.

Ah yes. A Beware Big Brother Twitter.

 

[Bet TSLA]

Mehdi Hasan with a pretty brutal analysis of Elon's China ties. Much about Twitter, so posting here:

The problem, as always, is that Elon is now fair game for this sort of thing. We very much need him to STFU on Twitter and stick to engineering.

 

[SmokyPeat]

Fidelity, an investor in Twitter, currently values the company at $15B.

Fidelity Values Twitter At Roughly $15 Billion—A Third Of The Sticker Price Paid By Musk

Twitter’s valuation is just a fraction of what Elon Musk purchased it for.

www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[Bet TSLA]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-fails-to-remove-hate-speech-by-blue-check-users-says-report-from-center-for-countering-digital-hate

For a while now, everybody not named Elon has been saying this (that hate speech on Twitter has gotten more prevalent). But as less and less data is visible, what are outsiders capable of determining for sure?

 

[sunwarriors]

I thought this was very relevant:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/tech/twitter-content-moderation-official-eu/index.html

Similarly, I don't think the new CEO will have any actual real power and even though it's in his right, Elon will call all the shots no matter what moving forward. Everyone can take that however they want whether that's a positive or not.

As a counter argument, it could also be the new CEO is cleaning house which is common when new leadership comes in. Being in ad sales however isn't the same as content moderation and the CEO hasn't started yet.

 

[JRP3]

I'm not at all clear as to what caused the last 2 thread lock downs. Were there problematic posts which were deleted? Some clarity would be helpful.

 

[Buckminster]

Clarification of what we can write about on this thread might be helpful. What constitutes the things we can't talk about exactly - maybe some examples.

 

[Buckminster]

Twitter is thus in no different a position than Amazon, Apple and Wikipedia, none of which were ever signatories of the Code, but all of which will be expected by the EU to comply with its censorship requirements on the pain of ruinous fines.

 

[mspohr]

Clarification of what we can write about on this thread might be helpful. What constitutes the things we can't talk about exactly - maybe some examples.

This would be good.
I was banned for one day for posting a book review about radicalization and social media. I guess it was deemed to be "political". I've hesitated to post again (or even read this thread) for fear of a more permanent ban.
It's difficult to post about "Elon and Twitter" without any political reference since that is the elephant in the room. Kind of like talking about the war in Ukraine without mentioning war.
I did post something today (about Elon and the kerfuffle with the anti-trans video series) but I fear that this, too, could be branded "political".
It would be good to have some guidance... or maybe just shut this thread down completely.

 

[SouthFLGuy]

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/17/apple-twitter-x-advertising-elon-musk-antisemitism-ads

 

[SouthFLGuy]

Great way to win back advertisers..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/29/elon-musk-advertiser-dealbook/

 

[SouthFLGuy]

Is the off-topic thread truly off-topic? If I post any real news related to Elon it immediately gets deleted, I would suspect because it's negative. This keeps happening. So I can only assume that any negative Musk news is not tolerated anywhere, even in off-topic.