Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Cthulhu 2020]

PROJECT VERITAS BWAHAHAHAHAHA

God, I think the only joke bigger than PV is anyone who believes what they say.

If you say "I" "kill" and "puppies" in the same two hour interview, they're very likely to edit it together to make you say "I kill puppies". They're a fucking joke.

[Hypasonic]

Again, you guy's don't even care what people working for them say. That's all I need to know.

[jonnysensible]

i thought those project veritas people are under investigation for sex crimes and stuff

[Edge-]

Again, you guy's don't even care what people working for them say. That's all I need to know.

Again, we can't trust anything that Project Veritas releases given that they've repeatedly released doctored videos and misinformation before.

If you (both the royal you and YOU) believe them or give them the benefit of the doubt, you're doing so despite an extensive history of dishonesty and seemingly because you want to believe what they've released.

[Breccia]

Again, you guy's don't even care what people working for them say.

Project Veritas? No, we don't. They are repeated, proven, criminal liars.

[Hypasonic]

Project Veritas? No, we don't. They are repeated, proven, criminal liars.

Do I need to repeat what I have said numerois times already?

[Edge-]

i thought those project veritas people are under investigation for sex crimes and stuff

Why do you think they keep getting funding from conservatives and signal boosted by Republicans? Because these are their fuckin people.

[Hypasonic]

Yikes ok, I have finally proven my point. Carl sagen was 100% right.

[Edge-]

Yikes ok, I have finally proven my point. Carl sagen was 100% right.

Nope, Sagan wouldn't bother with these dishonest hacks either and keep his name out your god damn mouth before Will Smith has to come in here.

It's like still treating Trump as a reputable source of information in the year of our lord 2023, the only people who do this are likely brain damaged.

[Breccia]

Do I need to repeat what I have said numerois times already?

No. You cited Project Veritas, we handwaved that garbage-ass source purely because of their proven history of being habitual frauds. That leaves literally nothing to talk about.

[Hypasonic]

No. You cited Project Veritas, we handwaved that garbage-ass source purely because of their proven history of being habitual frauds. That leaves literally nothing to talk about.

You didnt even watch it did you. You see, thats the issue. You immediately disregard it due to the source. Just watch it. I guess denial could maybe play a part here at this part. This isnt some flat earth shit or moon landing nonsense, give it a read.

[Calfredd]

What? ten ten ten

You are willing to believe people who do nothing but lie and heavily edit their videos. Project Veritas will take an innocent statement like "I love my kids", and edit it into a declaration of "I love kids". The person saying the statement is real but they did not say they loved kids just as the people in their videos did not say what Project Veritas' videos portray them as saying.

[Edge-]

You didnt even watch it did you. You see, thats the issue. You immediately disregard it due to the source. Just watch it. I guess denial could maybe play a part here at this part. This isnt some flat earth shit or moon landing nonsense, give it a read.

Yes. If a website has literally never reported the truth, would you regularly read that website for factual information?

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Ok, so are you not interested in what he says, like at all? You just focus on who is questioning him?

If you paid any attention to Project Veritas at all you would know why we can't trust anything they release as having any kind of relationship with truth or fact.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Again, you guy's don't even care what people working for them say. That's all I need to know.

Ever since they've existed, they've proven themselves to be liars, frauds, and terrible video editors that make it obvious they don't care about truth, only conspiratorial sensationalist spin that crazy nutters will slurp down without question becuase they're starving for any kind of controversy to cry about over the government/democrats.

That's what we call a track record. When your track record shows you to have consistently terrible """reporting""" don't expect anyone to take you seriously.





HONEST QUESTION: Do you think anyone should believe someone who has lied 20 times in a row and never reported a single fact? Tell me why you think people should trust liars. I'll listen. I'm willing to go down this rabbit hole.

[jonnysensible]

You didnt even watch it did you. You see, thats the issue. You immediately disregard it due to the source. Just watch it. I guess denial could maybe play a part here at this part. This isnt some flat earth shit or moon landing nonsense, give it a read.

its like posting russia today or something, you get that right?

[Hypasonic]

Ok you guys are right, I am sorry. I should not have listened to the actual guy from a big pharma company talking about stuff the way he did due to the source of the video.

[Calfredd]

Ok you guys are right, I am sorry. I should not have listened to the actual guy from a big pharma company talking about stuff the way he did due to the source of the video.

Except you weren't listening to the employee, you were listening to the heavily edited statements of that employee.

[Breccia]

I just realized -- the last two pages have been off-topic. So I reported and moved on.

On topic: Musk is shutting down Twitter API which...well, here's the article.

Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging website said as it looks for more avenues to monetize the platform.

In a series of tweets, the Twitter Developer account said the firm will be ending support for both legacy v1.1 and the new v2 of its Twitter APIs. It did not immediately say how much it plans to charge for API usage.

The move follows Twitter abruptly changing the terms of its API in recent weeks; the API was used by many popular Twitter clients, such as Tweetbot and Twitterrific. Most third-party Twitter apps have shut down their mobile apps.

In the aftermath of the recent changes that saw Twitter shutter third-party clients, many other app developers had grown cautious about the ways they advanced development atop of the Twitter API. This new move might leave some developers to either abandon their products or pass on the cost to their customers.

Thousands of developers use the Twitter API for scores of things such as tracking changes among Twitter accounts and offering alerts. These are fun side projects for people who might not be willing to pay fees for something that they themselves are not monetizing.

Then there is another specific user base of the Twitter API: Researchers. Twitter’s new announcement might impact research in different areas, including hate speech and online abuse. Universities often use Twitter to study human behavior in different regions. Putting a cap on free API usage could also stop firms working around detecting the spread of misinformation on Twitter.

Now, I honestly don't think Musk is doing this to promote hate speech. I think he's doing it to squeeze blood out of a stone. Without a free API, getting info from Twitter use will be trickier, and Musk himself is experimenting by making his own account on/off private mode. No, really, he said something about it an hour ago. However, we've all seen what happens when free-to-play turns into paid sub. People leave, en masse.

I still have zero idea why Musk would overpay for Twitter and then spend his entire life trying to kill it. Surely there are better ways to make $44 billion disappear, like planting a rain forest or putting the Dallas Cowboys in space.

[Edge-]

Ok you guys are right, I am sorry. I should not have listened to the actual guy from a big pharma company talking about stuff the way he did due to the source of the video.

You could just tell us you desperately want to believe this dishonest claptrap because it confirms your world view rather than pretend you're some neutral party who's just asking questions.