Twitter and Musk

Discussion in 'Politics' started by VicBee, Oct 31, 2022.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    It’s great when the community shows up to be entertained by watching your house burn down.
     
    #601     Nov 26, 2022
  2. Mercor

    Mercor

    Better analogy is that twitter was on fire and Elon is the fire department working to put it out.
     
    #602     Nov 26, 2022
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  3. And there is the question of whether the government will pursue the criminal actions of those proposing/instigating/colluding to burn Tesla down or not. Or is Elon left on his own for that because Biden has identified him as a political enemy?
     
    #603     Nov 26, 2022
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  4. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/real-clear-politics.html
     
    #604     Nov 26, 2022
  5. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Elon "shadowban absolutist" Musk:
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    #605     Nov 26, 2022
  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #606     Nov 26, 2022
  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Under Musk, Twitter has nearly no moderation -- hate posts are up several thousand percent, human trafficking material is at all time highs, copyrighted material including films are freely distributed, major advertisers are leaving in droves and banned posters driving violence, hate & misinformation are allowed back on the platform. You are sadly confused about Elon Musk -- he is the arsonist, not the fire department.
     
    #607     Nov 26, 2022
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  8. themickey

    themickey

    Twitter CEO Musk says user signups at all-time high, touts features of "everything app"
    Reuters
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    An image of Elon Musk is seen on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos in this picture illustration taken April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo

    Nov 27 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk says new user signups to the social media platform are at an "all-time high", as he struggles with a mass exodus of advertisers and users fleeing to other platforms over concerns about verification and hate speech.

    Signups were averaging over two million per day in the last seven days as of Nov. 16, up 66% compared to the same week in 2021, Musk said in a tweet late on Saturday.
     
    #608     Nov 27, 2022
  9. themickey

    themickey

    Bots having a field day!
     
    #609     Nov 27, 2022
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    The concept of "Bird Watch" (aka Community Notes) has some possible benefits for Twitter -- but not in the way that Musk is using it. Musk is simply allowing mobs to create their own facts -- leading to additional Covid misinformation, election-denial nonsense, and nonsense being upvoted as "facts" in Bird Watch -- making a mockery of the entire concept of presenting factual information as additional context.

    There are easy fixes to allow only factual information to be presented as contextual references (as per the original Polis model which Bird Watch is based on) -- but Musk is deliberating avoiding doing anything proper. In fact his intent seem to be to deliberately allow Bird Watch to reinforce misinformation on Twitter.

    Birdwatch makes a mockery of content moderation
    https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/nov/26/birdwatch-makes-a-mockery-of-content-moderation/
     
    #610     Nov 27, 2022