"Fact free hellscape"...LOL. Learn to cope, GWB. Your narrative isn't the only game in town. Its time you learned to accept it.
Musk already begging for money. Guess the $20 is not working out. Let's see how soon he is down to zero.
So how many days until Musk tries to charge a fee for blocking abusive posters on Twitter? You know those people who threaten people, tell women how they will be raped, and generally troll the platform -- aka abusive idiots. Should we start a poll on how many days until Elon turns Twitter into an abusive hellscape.
Yes, lets start a poll. Because the one thing we can be reasonably sure of, is that if it is your prediction it will happen, it likely won't. Forget the Inverse Cramer ETF. There needs to be an Inverse GWB Prediction ETF.
I think the bigger issues is Musk runs an EV company and is buyuing twitter....he is way out of his element and nothing worries shareholders more than when teh Board or CEO decides to focus more attention and time on outside irrlevant business ventures. I remember in my professor days (yeah it was a side gig) we did a case study on Crocs after the stock exploded and 6 out of hte 7 Board Members oer Executives had ZERO retail experience. 2 came from Cars. com and 2 came from a semiconductor company. Crocs almost went under. It is very telling when the leadership has no experience or the company decides to move outside its lane. tesla shareholders should not be happy Musk spends most of his time on outside projects. I am not sure twitter shareholders should be happy an ecentric carmaker is going to lead them. You dont already see the misteps in raising the issue to charge people for checkmarks.... you cant run twitter like a car company. This has nothing to do with politics, I dont like the idea because this is really not a synergy between Tesla and Twitter and something always suffers like it did in Crocs.
I mean I am not saying tesla is going to go under but companies with distracted CEOs who founded the company tend to go off the rails. Electric cars are being made by almost all the car manufacturers. At some point people willing to pay $70k - $100K are going to be less and less with more competition coming in.
Correct. Volkswagen for example- over time. Even though they are a bit player now, the focus they have on electric now will not be without result in the coming years. Ironically, it is argued by some that the Chinese allow Tesla to be sold in China because it is an upscale car that gives legitimacy to the electric car market there and although it is not affordable to the masses it paves the way for all their chintzy models to gain acceptance. There is something to that argument.
Twitter cuts staff moderating content to a mere 15 people. At the same time Musk continues to personally intervene to let banned right-wing disinformation artists with a history of spreading hate back on Twitter. Yeah... this is going to go well. Twitter restricts staff from policing content violations ahead of US midterms Instead of hundreds of employees enforcing violations, there are now about 15. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...cing-content-violations-ahead-of-us-midterms/ A few months ago, Twitter promised to take its role in preserving election integrity seriously, saying that “[p]eople deserve to trust the election conversations and content they encounter on Twitter.” Now, in the middle of Brazil’s presidential election and just ahead of the US midterms, the majority of Twitter staff who would be responsible for moderating content to help maintain election integrity reportedly don’t have access to the tools they need to do that. Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, Yoel Roth, tweeted that there’s nothing unusual about Twitter’s decision. The company is simply restricting access to prevent employees from making any changes to the software code during the transition, he wrote. “This is exactly what we (or any company) should be doing in the midst of a corporate transition to reduce opportunities for insider risk,” Roth tweeted. “We’re still enforcing our rules at scale.” According to Bloomberg News, Twitter has significantly cut back on its content moderation staff approved to access a dashboard that logs automated and user-flagged content that requires human review before content is restricted. Ordinarily, hundreds of employees would be using the dashboard, reviewing content to manually enforce actions dictated by Twitter policy, such as banning or restricting accounts. Since last week, two Twitter safety team insiders told Bloomberg that the total number had been reduced to about 15 employees. Manually reviewed policy violations are usually the most high-profile violations, including those that could involve real-world harm, Twitter employees told Bloomberg. Twitter likely to struggle to enforce election integrity policy Although this decision seems like a necessary step, in Roth’s view, to reduce risk as Twitter ownership changes hands, the timing could have real-world consequences in this fall's elections. Twitter insiders told Bloomberg that some staff did have access to the dashboard during Brazil’s presidential election, but only “in a limited capacity.” Experts monitoring Brazil's election have said that Twitter already wasn't doing enough to prevent misinformation spread, even before Musk took over. Ahead of Brazil’s presidential election, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro began to sow seeds of doubt in the election's integrity, just as Donald Trump did before his Twitter ban. Since Bolsonaro’s loss, Human Rights Watch has reported that “people with hundreds of thousands of followers claimed that the counting was fraudulent.” As an example, the international non-governmental agency highlighted one problematic tweet that’s still up and has 30,000 likes. Ars confirmed the tweet has not been flagged by Twitter as needing a link to “credible information or helpful context”—such as linking to actual election results—as Twitter policy would seem to dictate. Popular accounts spreading fake news that go unmoderated can be cause for public concern, which is why Twitter worked to expand its election integrity policy over the past five years. During the 2016 US presidential election, researchers reported in Science that on Twitter, “only 1% of individuals accounted for 80% of fake news source exposures.” Twitter did not respond to Ars’ request to comment on how its current software code freeze might impact the company’s ability to enforce its election integrity policy. Employees from Twitter’s trust and safety team told Bloomberg that they “believe the company will be short-handed in enforcing policies in the run-up to the US midterm election on Nov. 8.” In a letter to advertisers, Musk said that while his purchase of Twitter was motivated to prevent polarization and help humanity, he understands that failure is a “very real possibility.” In the background of these elections, anonymous trolls have spammed Twitter with hate speech in the days since Musk took over. The Washington Post reported that their intent was to make as big a mess as possible to welcome Elon as the service's new owner. The surge in hate is not due to any specific policy changes, Musk tweeted. “To be super clear, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies,” he wrote. In an earlier tweet, he announced that he would be forming a content moderation council as part of his reimagining of Twitter.