Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Surfd]

So Twitter's new monetization model for getting the most impressions on your tweets gets you $$$$$$, has created a massive epidemic of actual fake news. People posting clips of video games where someone shoots down a helicopter and claims it's Hamas against the IDF. There's literally thousands of fake news posts on Twitter about the Palestinian conflict. Elon Musk's Twitter has single handedly killed Twitter as a credible source of citizen journalism.

Hey bro, why do you hate free speech? /s /Elon

[Edge-]

https://twitter.com/WSJLive/status/1711476694442233982

X CEO
@lindayax
will not be joining Tech Live next week.

Here’s the statement from X : “Linda Yaccarino will be unable to attend the WSJ Tech Live conference next week. With the global crisis unfolding, Linda and her team must remain fully focused on X platform safety.”

Don't think many folks really believe this given that Twitter appears to have been supercharged to spread misinformation and I'm unaware of any concerted efforts on the p companies party to address the explosion in misinformation we've seen lately.

It seems much more that her disastrous interview with The Verge at their event a few weeks back has the company reconsidering whether they send their Chief Executive Officer out in public to speak with press. Though hey, maybe she's actually working hard to "do something" about conveniently vague platform safety.

You know, like not taking down an account spreading misinformation that's resulted in dozens of bomb threats.

[Breccia]

Um...okay, literally anyone help me out here. Let's assume Yaccarino is telling the truth. Let's assume she needs to focus on the safety of X-Twitter.

How? It's fucking electrons. The servers aren't in the Middle East or Ukraine. Are they? And I believe @Edge- that it's not about misinformation, not on Twitter, no.

What, this is a genuine question, does the "global crisis" which I assume is people killing each other have to do with the safety of Twitter? Like, explain how this could even pretend to be a credible excuse, even if you know it's wrong.

[Edge-]

Um...okay, literally anyone help me out here. Let's assume Yaccarino is telling the truth. Let's assume she needs to focus on the safety of X-Twitter.

How? It's fucking electrons. The servers aren't in the Middle East or Ukraine. Are they? And I believe @Edge- that it's not about misinformation, not on Twitter, no.

What, this is a genuine question, does the "global crisis" which I assume is people killing each other have to do with the safety of Twitter? Like, explain how this could even pretend to be a credible excuse, even if you know it's wrong.

One can reasonably presume she means ensuring the platform is secure from would-be hackers and the like. It's conveniently vague information when you need a good sounding excuse but don't want to get too specific. I should know, because I sometimes write these professionally. The art of what isn't said is as important as the art of what is.

[Breccia]

One can reasonably presume she means ensuring the platform is secure from would-be hackers and the like.

Okay, valid, why wasn't she doing that before? What part of the "global crisis" thing made her suddenly say "well, shit, I'd better get serious so I don't get hacked by Hamas, thank goodness they didn't try to hack us the day before"?

[Drutt]

One can reasonably presume she means ensuring the platform is secure from would-be hackers and the like.

There is no way a CEO is involved with that in a company like Twitter. This is especially true for a CEO like Yaccarino, who has no enterprise tech skills, knows nothing about cybersecurity and has spent basically her whole career in advertising.

It might fool the rubes, but that's about it.

[postman1782]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/10/tech/...ion/index.html

The shell of Twitter looking at hefty fines for allowing misinformation, racism, and such for the Israel Hamas war in Europe. People are posting Arma 2 and 3 footage, claiming it is war footage. Then they are posting executions, and Nazi slogans and imagery.

[Breccia]

Then they are posting executions, and Nazi slogans and imagery.

So...maybe Yaccarino was telling the truth. That sounds like something they'd want to get right on, immediately.

[Paranoid Android]

For the love of puppies EU; please fine this ahole and shut it down. As an Mmerican, no way our country is going to do it even though he is a a threat. I'm holding EU to a barely higher standard.

[Edge-]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/10/tech/...ion/index.html

The shell of Twitter looking at hefty fines for allowing misinformation, racism, and such for the Israel Hamas war in Europe. People are posting Arma 2 and 3 footage, claiming it is war footage. Then they are posting executions, and Nazi slogans and imagery.

Does he fight this in court or does he instead say, "Europe hates free speech so I'm ending support for Twitter there" and then go on to blame Europe for Twitters eventual shuttering amongst all the other people and groups not named "Elon Musk" who are apparently to blame for his terrible policies and unpredictable behavior drove away anyone willing to spend more than $8/month on the platform to get a blue checkmark and more targeted ads.

[postman1782]

Does he fight this in court or does he instead say, "Europe hates free speech so I'm ending support for Twitter there" and then go on to blame Europe for Twitters eventual shuttering amongst all the other people and groups not named "Elon Musk" who are apparently to blame for his terrible policies and unpredictable behavior drove away anyone willing to spend more than $8/month on the platform to get a blue checkmark and more targeted ads.

He's already looking at $33 billion in fines I think in Europe. https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/...h-16366461.htm

[Edge-]

He's already looking at $33 billion in fines I think in Europe. https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/...h-16366461.htm

Theoretically, but it's beyond unlikely that Germany would issue the full list of fines. No nation has done any regulatory action or penalty like that to my knowledge, not even close. Should Germany even fine them it'll likely be a fraction of that total.

[Edge-]

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...hamas-content/

European Union officials started an investigation against X on Thursday to determine if the website failed to comply with the EU's new Big Tech regulation, the Digital Services Act (DSA) by letting graphic illegal content and disinformation linked to Hamas' attack on Israel run rampant.

The Commission sent X — the platform formerly known as Twitter and acquired by entrepreneur Elon Musk last year — a formal request for information about how it has been handling problematic content on the platform.

The request is a preliminary step to launch a formal probe that could lead to fines being imposed on social media totalling up to 6 percent of a company's global revenue. It's the first time the European Union executive has taken this step.

X has until October 18 to explain its crisis response to online terrorist propaganda and other violent and false content related to Hamas' attacks on Israeli communities; it has until October 31 to provide details on other content moderation issues raised by the EU.

Well, if there really aren't any compliance folks left this is an incredibly short timeline to educate Elom about all of this so he can take matters into his own hands.

This should be fun to watch. So far Elom seems to be farming a lot of L's when it comes to playing games of chicken, maybe this will change his fortunes.

[Breccia]

This should be fun to watch.

It should. Everyone who wasn't me predicted this. I wonder if our local fans of "European News" oh, sorry I slathered some sarcasm on the screen, will comment on the hole Musk has dug himself.

[Edge-]

I enjoy that readers can at least fact-check the bullshit scam-ads on Twitter now. I doubt these ads are worth very much for the platform, either.

[Breccia]

So far Elom seems to be farming a lot of L's when it comes to playing games of chicken, maybe this will change his fortunes.

Morgan Freeman: He did not change his fortunes.

Twitter illegally fired worker who opposed Musk's return-to-office order

Yeah, the National Labor Relations Board is taking offense with Twitter, for firing an employee, for saying something on Twitter.

"Didn't Musk say he--"

Don't bring consistency or logic to a Twitter decision.

"The complaint alleges that a high-ranking official at Twitter/X told staff 'If you can physically make it to an office and you don't show up, resignation accepted,'" according to an NLRB spokesperson in a statement to Axios.

In response, the NLRB says an employee tweeted and posted in a Slack channel urging colleagues not to resign in order to prompt Twitter/X to fire them instead.

According to Bloomberg, the tweet read: "Don't resign, let him fire you. You gain literally nothing out of a resignation."

[Paranoid Android]

https://x.com/joshtpm/status/1713735084161860077?s=20

So let me break this down. First I wanted to make sure this was legit so I had to go shit diving into Elmo's Twitter. Since he shit posts so much it was too much hassle to confirm. I then went to this endwokeness account and holy shit!! I had this account on ignore I'm sure cause of some shit post long time ago but had to scroll down and it is definitely right wing ideology of anti-muslim, anti-vaxx, racist, xenophobic, etc. One post I saw while going down is the classic South African story of violence of a white couple of course committed by a black South African. This is race baiting 101 from time of reddit.

So all the points endjokeness posted are factually wrong, but I'm not here to debate that. The problem is Elmo reply that mass shooting are the necessary means to having the 2nd Amendment. Once again not going to debate 2nd Amendment, but the CEO of the effin social media company posting this? This place is the cesspool it is and Elon is the one taking the most shits in it.

[Cthulhu 2020]

I enjoy that readers can at least fact-check the bullshit scam-ads on Twitter now. I doubt these ads are worth very much for the platform, either.

I like that I recently watched a video about manosphere "hustle" culture that basically sums it up as, "Find something that sells for 50 cents on ali express, say a duck necklace, then make your own shop front using a free website maker like carrd, talk up the product like how iconographic ducks are to love and fertility, and sell the duck necklace for $20."

That's literally what hustle culture is teaching people, scam dumb Americans with cheap products from ali using drop shipping.

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Welp someone's account got nuked, the page links are now bugged.

[Corvus]

And another L for twitter. Australia's eSafety commission has fined them $610k for failing to meet anti-child abuse standards.

Yeah, its not much, but they have 28 days to pay and if they fail they could be hit with fines of up to $780K a day since they were found to breach compliance. Which was back in March.

[Paranoid Android]

The social media network formerly known as Twitter has a new plan for beating bots

I don't think so!

Elmo's plan is to charge an annual $1/year subscription to beat bots. Umm, this will not discourage bots a mere $1!?! $50k gets you 50k bots. Pretty sure this is a money grab at the bots for Elmo to make money.