I thought X got rid of all of the sane policies that twitter had?
I mean isn’t X officially a white supremacist platform now anyways?
And EVERY single news organization in the US uses it both as their primary platform AND source for news.
Even fucking NPR. What the actual fuck is that about ?
90% of screenshots on Lemmy are from Twitter ffs. It boggles my mind, and I am not easily boggled.
I thought NPR left Twitter when Musk had them labeled as “state controlled media”
They still… to this day… source Twitter in news articles. They still embed tweets.
The problem is consensus. No one can make consensus on abandoning the site happen.
Give me very little hope that the world can resist fascism if they can’t stop using a website.
Musky wanted to do that but Europe threatened to ban Twitter so now he just pretends that there are rules.
everyday I’m thankful that Musk is not an US born citizen and cannot run for office. It’s the only thing stopping him
It keeps you out of the Pres and VP office, but there are plenty of other offices.
I think he prefers the passenger seat of his jet plane.
There’s almost a 0% chance musk gets even remotely close to any cali government position with just public voting
Literally a laughingstock
Donald J Trump was the president of the United States of america.America
So is Trump, but see how that went.
I live in Devin nunes former district. One just south is kevin McCarthys.
Idk… I can see him getting support for Texas.
I mean, that’s a state that voted in Ted Cruz after all.
Elon seems to be a deep shit blackhole. The more shit is there the more shit is attracted.
This is the third post I’m seing about this. But STILL NO VIDEO LINK.
Good, for once people are deciding to limit outrage and not continue to distribute and share things that are false. If we did this with every piece of bullshit outrage bait or weird rumor or conspiracy theory we would reduce some of the worst movements and viral trends we all hate.
it also appeared in some credible news sites wo the link as well. Dont know about the credibility of this one but it has the link
I found one that could be it but I don’t want to bring attention to it if I’m wrong.
Disinformation misinformation - you’re Just Saying No :)
twitter?
The video mimics Ms. Harris’s voice, but instead of using her words from the original ad, it has the vice president saying that President Biden is senile, that she does not “know the first thing about running the country” and that, as a woman and a person of color, she is the “ultimate diversity hire.”
Here you go.
Jesus fucking Christ
I think a nickname like diversity hire Kamala would the best they could do. However it’s not a great nickname cause all she had to do is talk a little, sound competent and the name kind of falls apart.
Still better than laughing Kamala, that just sounds like a children’s toy.
God that’s bad. This is what I’d expected Russian trolls to do on Lemmy before getting down voted into oblivion, but I wouldn’t expect a CEO to do this. This is fucked up.
I wouldn’t expect a CEO to do this
Where have you been the last few years?
Yeah, that’s a weird sentiment, as if CEOs were known for their honesty and integrity.
CEOs might be assholes, but they usually have some class when communicating to the public.
CEOs speaking to the public:
“The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.”
-D.A.
ESPECIALLY this one.
Dude got his start with Apartheid money. Stste-sponsord discrimination is why he exists.
You can’t train a Russian bot to sound as stupid as Musk - the tech just isn’t there yet.
This is what Biden should have been doing since 2020, it wouldn’t even have been a close race.
To be honest, I’m not sure how posting AI fake videos of Harris would have helped
Wait, what the heck. My comment wasn’t meant for this post?
Was the original post changed?
Doesn’t seem to have been. I figured you were trying to say that Biden should have attempted to outlaw deepfakes and/or fake news, so I took you literally as a joke. Might’ve just misclicked.
Yeah I think I did 😁
i, for one, am chagrined
That name should be some sort of verb or something, “lets not Musk this up” or “are you really that Musk?” I dunno something like that
“I hate that site, I hope someone Musks it up soon”
“Oohh you fucking elon…”
“I sure hope he doesn’t get Munson’d”
Next thing you know, Musky will order staff to create entirely false tweets on official accounts and lock the accounts so the false tweets can’t be deleted. He will burn that entire company to the ground to get TFG back in.
TFG? The fucking ghoul?
Which, if that worked, would be a spendy but powerful play for turning the US into a one party autocracy.
Benefits (for musk): He doesn’t need to manipulate elections anymore
Hazards: He now needs to manipulate the new regime.
Also the one party autocracy is not popular and depends on fascist rhetoric, eventually a war to keep the social unrest manageable. That doesn’t work long term, and Musk is a clear collaborator
At this point I’m convinced that Musk fully intends on world domination. The man is psychotic, he subscribes to the idea that we all live in a simulation and further that he’s the only real player.
Him and Thiel are literally the people that all of the conservative NWO conspiracies worried about and somehow the conservatives are lining up to suck their dicks.
I hope some crackhead with the same beliefs as Musk who is just poor fucken shanks Musk, preferably with a triangle bayonet.
Because there’s only thing worse than a new world order, and that’s not being at the top of the new world order
TFG?
Thank Fod is Griday
The Former Guy. He was in Home Alone, starred in some reality show and sold steaks for a while.
The weird guy with really ill fitting suit?
The rapey guy who grabs women by the pussy?
Yeah he tried getting into business but when that didn’t work out he started yelling at clouds.
The guy who couldn’t make money from a casino?
With small hands even
I always read it as THAT fuckin’ guy…
Same, but I always read it in Nandor’s voice from What We Do in the Shadows
Oh you mean the child rapist
The couch fuckers boss.
The convicted felon?
I hate it when these articles never include the video. How am I supposed to learn about manipulation if I’m “being protected against it”?
You can find it without them boosting it for free. But you don’t have to watch it to understand the story
I am so shocked!
(Not)
in Seeming Violation of X’s Policies
But of course. That is why he bought the company – to become un-bannable.
“Nobody can hurt my feelings ever again!”
Does that mean Musk is a snowflake?
He’s always been one.
[In nasal robot voice] “I.hate.your.face”
How could he see me?
“I’m a robot. I love robots. I have a robot vagina.”
“Hey look! It’s Bono’s little brother!”
I shall be come ungovernable -A long Must
y
I just can’t believe anyone still uses Twitter for any purpose.
At this point remaining active on the platform is more or less unethical.
more or less unethical.
Even before that, it just funnels value from users to a monopoly that does not innovate or improve user experience. It’s like the freemium model without much benefit in exchange for your data.
A lot of sites have weight. Twitter sheds users every day but the large user count makes it attractive to public figures and if you want to follow that public figure you need to have twitter.
Yeah but to me it’s insane that public people that have publicists or companies that have communications staff simply don’t cross post to multiple sites.
Sure for a regular person that’s a lot of work to do when just posting a random thought. But for someone who’s job involves posting things to social media? Most of the work is coming up with the copy. Once that’s done it’s just copying and pasting to different sites.
That’s why the more prominent the public figure is, the bigger ethical obligation they have to switch to Mastodon and force their followers to follow.
Cue a flood of Swifties when Taylor finds out about Mastodon.
My point is, it’s becoming unethical for public figures and their followers to remain on the platform.
Twitter just has too much momentum. It’s unshakable from its cultural position as it is now. It will take more than the alt-right openly congregating in their own circles to scare ordinary people away.
I disagree.
If anything the momentum is moving against it. The only question is how long it will take for alternatives to become viable and / or for twitter to lose its network effect.
Presently its only the inertia of users maintaining the network effect.
When the owner starts publishing misinformation I’m order to manipulate an election, that’s something more than merely a consideration of features, users, and UX. Users really ought to emphatically withdraw their support, even in cases where it may be inconvenient.
I use it to keep up with Street Fighter pros.
And watch a little of the dumpster fire burn. I report all of Musks posts that break policy and kinda surprised my account isn’t suspended yet.
I use twitter to complain about products at brands, it’s more effective than you think.
“Less unethical” if you’re a journalist. Investigative reporters can visit nazi bars with 335m people if they bring us the goods about what the nazis are saying!
Sure I guess.
I have the luxury of not having to decide.
I’m not going to judge someone who feels they absolutely need to participate on twitter in order to avoid poverty.
I certainly wouldn’t like to do that myself.
3 Qs:
-
Musk sux
-
If you advised Kamala and she created a Mastodon account and tried to funnel people there, but not everyone left, would you advise her to at least post screenshots of her Mastodon posts or “see my post about $subject on Masto here: $url” whenever she had something to say?
-
If you’re Kamala and your crystal ball proved posting on the dumpster fire site would bring you the one extra voter who will sway the election - would you take a utilitarian approach and keep dumpsterposting?
if Kampala staying on Twitter meant winning the election then sure.
It’s my strongly held opinion that it won’t significantly effect the outcome. A savvy media team could play it to her advantage.
Honestly how many swing voters are going to follow Kamala.
-
If my younger self from like 3 years ago heard generating videos can be a prompt away and can make gigantic amounts of misinformation, he would shit himself and probably write a manifesto, but fuck me this is still insane today!
I can’t tell whether 3 years ago you were pre-potty training but fully literate, or whether you’ve simultaneously learned better emotional regulation and sphincter control in the past few years.
People tend to change more, psychologically speaking, between 18-25. They might have been 17-18 three years ago. Makes sense with the manifesto comment.
