Russia and other authoritarian shitholes liked that
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Also, just start confusingly call it “X” in headlines. Don’t mention twitter or musk.
I like exTwitter. He doesn’t want it called Twitter.
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This just makes no sense to me. Like other decisions he’s made, like removing blocks or adding video calls, there’s at least a reason. I may not agree with the reason, and think he is a bumbling fool, but at least I can understand it.
But this just makes no sense. It’s almost like he’s trying to be a cartoon villain
Not sure what doesn’t make sense here? He’s a fascism-sympathizer. He wants to influence elections. His investors–the Saudis–very much want to influence elections. The ability to report misinformation competes against the ability to influence elections. The solution to that problem is to disable the ability to report. Makes sense to me.
It only doesn’t make sense if you think he’s doing any of this for commercial reasons.
You’re giving Elmo too much credit as this Machiavellian character. Ordinary capitalist. Appeasing your investors is the most common commercial reason. It’s just that advertisers can’t really provide twitter with business anymore on account of his bigoted optics, but dangerous governments can.
he bought it to dismantle it with his saudi backers. this is exactly as expected, im not sure why anyone is surprised by literally any of this.
But this just makes no sense. It’s almost like he’s trying to be a cartoon villain
Can’t wait to see him unveil his new enterprise of building a giant thruster on one side of the planet to send us closer to the sun.
He’s so transparent with his intentions, it’s embarrassing. The only explanation of removing your own tool to combat misinformation is because it does not align with your own interests. There’s no way to spin that fact in a positive light and yet there will still be people using twitter. It’s actually getting really fucking hard to not be a misanthrope.
My guess is that they had already laid-off the people who analyzed and took action on those reports. They’re just now getting around to removing the UI for users to file them.
ah our dayli reminder that Elon Musk is a cunt
Musk is speedrunning titter into making it an unusable service for anything else than state propaganda
It’s already unusable if you don’t have an account (you shouldn’t).
So now he is even censoring the people that dare to speak up against misinformation.
“Free speech absolutionist” my ass.
Free Speech Abolitionist.
I’m not sure why folks don’t hold lemmy instances to the same standards as Twitter. I’ve seen plenty calls to violence here and nothing was done 🤷♂️
Every day I wake up I’m increasingly grateful that I no longer have a Twitter account
I left Twitter back in May and seemingly every day there is some new reason why that was a good decision. Elon can come up with bad ideas like no one else.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
SYDNEY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s X, formerly called Twitter, disabled a feature that let users report misinformation about elections, a research organisation said on Wednesday, throwing fresh concern about false claims spreading just before major U.S. and Australian votes.
Removing a way for people to report suspected political misinformation may limit intervention at a time when social media platforms are under pressure to curtail falsehoods about electoral integrity, which have grown rapidly in recent years.
It comes less than three weeks before Australia holds a referendum, its first in a quarter century, on whether to change the constitution to establish an Indigenous advisory body to parliament and 14 months before a U.S. presidential election.
“It would be helpful to understand why X have seemingly gone backwards on their commitments to mitigating the kind of serious misinformation that has translated into real political instability in the US, especially on the eve of the ‘bumper year’ of elections globally,” said Alice Dawkins, executive director of Reset.Tech Australia.
Since billionaire Musk took Twitter, as it was then known, private in late 2022, the company, which cut most of its workforce, has been accused of allowing the proliferation of antisemitism, hate speech and misinformation.
Australia’s internet safety regulator wrote to X in June demanding an explanation for an explosion in hate speech on the platform, noting it had reinstated some 62,000 high profile accounts of individuals who espouse Nazi rhetoric.
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