Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Karreck]

I'm an idiot and don't get the second one. Can you educate me?

7734206 upside down would look like Go 2 Hell.

[Odinfrost]

Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia has X account suspended



I'm sure it's for a totally legit reason, guys

One, it's been reinstated, two: "I like Putin even if I don't say it out loud" is a totally legit reason.
Or, I assume that's why Musk got it banned. He might have been high. That's also a possibility

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7734206 upside down would look like Go 2 Hell.

Thank you.

[Karreck]

He might have been high. That's also a possibility

I don't think he is "micro-dosing" ketamine anymore, if he even was to begin with. Just full on shooting up the K every day.

[Edge-]

Edit: Just reinstated. I wonder what Musk will say.

Though apparently under shadowban and search restrictions, so you can only find her posts by going to her account? Unverified as I haven't checked personally but saw some chatter about this.

All the same, what a major victory for FREEZE PEACH ABSOLUTE VODKDA Elon Musk. The mans commitment to Freeze Peach is truly commendable.

[Poopymonster]

I don't think he is "micro-dosing" ketamine anymore, if he even was to begin with. Just full on shooting up the K every day.

He's moved onto macro-dosing.

[Paranoid Android]

Go figure the piece of dog feces bans accounts when called upon by his master Putin. I scrolled quick on Twitter and no major news organization has picked up on this. While not a game breaker or anything; surprised since this is some Navalny news.

I just wish for me that all the news organizations and reporters would find a damn platform and move there.

[Edge-]

Go figure the piece of dog feces bans accounts when called upon by his master Putin. I scrolled quick on Twitter and no major news organization has picked up on this. While not a game breaker or anything; surprised since this is some Navalny news.

I just wish for me that all the news organizations and reporters would find a damn platform and move there.

https://newrepublic.com/post/179142/...locked-twitter
https://www.thedailybeast.com/navaln...onfronts-putin
https://news.sky.com/story/alexei-na...ended-13076185
https://www.politico.eu/article/yuli...-suspension-x/
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/t...-b2499175.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/20/x-su...navalnaya.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...nt-2024-02-20/
https://www.barrons.com/news/social-...count-a7b0ac50
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/w...x-account.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-accused-putin
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68350222
https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...in-1234971249/

I'm unsure why you would think Twitter would be a good place to find coverage of this news given that her account remains "shadowbanned". Because it sure looks like this has been pretty extensively reported on by major national and international news outlets, as well as plenty of smaller ones.

Like it or not, even as Twitter's influence and userbase decline (and bots increase), it's still the platform for "in the moment" information and reactions that other social media platforms aren't. And it will continue to be for quite some time until it gets bad enough and a halfway decent alternative gains enough momentum. Because these outlets have joined other social media platforms and all, but like...maybe the problem is going to social media platforms to look for news/reporting instead of going to the outlets themselves?

[Benggaul]

Reuters: X says it briefly suspended Yulia Navalnaya's social media account due to error

CNBC: X social media platform restores account of Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, after brief suspension

Sky: Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya has X social media account suspended

NYT: Yulia Navalnaya’s Account Is Briefly Suspended by X

BBC: X briefly suspends account of Alexei Navalny's widow

"No mAjOr NEws orGANizaTioNS!!!11!" Maybe just take the hint and get off of Twitter since most people--and organizations--with an ounce of sense already have.

EDIT: Bah, Edge got me while I was feeding the kitties after a 10-second Google search.

[Fantomen]

Go figure the piece of dog feces bans accounts when called upon by his master Putin.

I know this is the place to shit on Elon, but come on, do you relay think Putin (or his henchmen) did call Elon, and order him to close the account?

Alternative, Putin Bot-farm and troll factory mass flag the account, Twitter/X automation close the account, and a short time later a human review it and restore it.

[Edge-]

I know this is the place to shit on Elon, but come on, do you relay think Putin (or his henchmen) did call Elon, and order him to close the account?

Alternative, Putin Bot-farm and troll factory mass flag the account, Twitter/X automation close the account, and a short time later a human review it and restore it.

While I don't think there was a phone call or anything, I do think this is the result of the policy changes instituted since Elon took over the company. It seems to be hitting a lot more "innocent victims", especially considering that despite the unban her account remains "shadowbanned" and one can only see her tweets by accessing them directly.

[Orange Joe]

Go figure the piece of dog feces bans accounts when called upon by his master Putin. I scrolled quick on Twitter and no major news organization has picked up on this. While not a game breaker or anything; surprised since this is some Navalny news.

I just wish for me that all the news organizations and reporters would find a damn platform and move there.

repeat after me


Twitter is not a news source.


one more time.


Twitter is not a news source.

[Paranoid Android]

repeat after me


Twitter is not a news source.


one more time.


Twitter is not a news source.

Stop being obtuse.

Every major news source has a Twitter account. Its not too difficult to know which news sources to use.

Twitter is still one of the better platforms for breaking news and up to date.

If you want to play the game of Twitter itself. Well no shit, all it is a social media platform.

The reason why this thread is so long and many posts in here criticize how the platform has gone down hill.

Almost everyone in here will source from Twitter.

[Edge-]

Stop being obtuse.

Every major news source has a Twitter account. Its not too difficult to know which news sources to use.

Twitter is still one of the better platforms for breaking news and up to date.

But for accurate news...increasingly not. Especially as we've seen with the avalanche of misinformation coming out from both the Ukraine and Israel wars and Elon personally directing employees to manipulate results and feeds.

If you want to play the game of Twitter itself. Well no shit, all it is a social media platform.

The reason why this thread is so long and many posts in here criticize how the platform has gone down hill.

Almost everyone in here will source from Twitter.

We'll source to Twitter, but few of us treat Twitter as a search engine or reflective of reality outside of Twitter because it is not and has never been a search engine (remember that time that one dude volunteered to fix the broken search functionality? and then fucked off after a few weeks because it was hard work and that's not what he signed up to do for free? [it was literally what he signed up to do for free]). And I'd imagine that if an account is being specifically shadowbanned, then similarly discussion relating to that shadowbanned account would likely be suppressed.

The point some are making is that you could have dispelled your confusion with a simple web search - even Google in its decayed state did the trick and showed results within a fraction of a second of searching. Instead you went to the boring, rarely correct, "Lamestream media is ignoring this big story!", which is objectively incorrect as has been shown.

[Orange Joe]

Stop being obtuse.

Every major news source has a Twitter account. Its not too difficult to know which news sources to use.

Twitter is still one of the better platforms for breaking news and up to date.

If you want to play the game of Twitter itself. Well no shit, all it is a social media platform.

The reason why this thread is so long and many posts in here criticize how the platform has gone down hill.

Almost everyone in here will source from Twitter.

Says the guy that just tried to search twitter for news and couldn't find it.



One last time

Twitter is not a news source.

[Paranoid Android]

But for accurate news...increasingly not. Especially as we've seen with the avalanche of misinformation coming out from both the Ukraine and Israel wars and Elon personally directing employees to manipulate results and feeds.

Again I say major news source; aka CNN, The Hill, BBC, etc. So if you want to get pejorative about all the bs Twitter has become, where do you think I have ever defended this.

We'll source to Twitter, but few of us treat Twitter as a search engine

I don't know what this has to do with my comment on it being a social media platform and me again even mentioning of the downfall of the platform.

[Edge-]

Again I say major news source; aka CNN, The Hill, BBC, etc. So if you want to get pejorative about all the bs Twitter has become, where do you think I have ever defended this.

I think you're missing the point.

Yes, Reuters and the AP and CNN and Fox and all the rest all have Twitter accounts and post things on Twitter. But Twitter is a bad place to look to for, "Are media covering this news?" since at best all you're getting are what Twitter's search algorithm - which is bad - or feed algorithm - which has gotten terrible - shows. Consequently, looking around Twitter is literally only a good barometer for "what's happening on Twitter" and is not a good way to gauge if media are covering a particular new story or not.

Because as I posted, the story has been pretty extensively covered by most of the big name and popular news outlets.

I don't know what this has to do with my comment on it being a social media platform and me again even mentioning of the downfall of the platform.

I scrolled quick on Twitter and no major news organization has picked up on this.

This is what people are responding to. You looked around Twitter to see if major news outlets were covering this and per your search you did not find any. You took that to mean this was not a story being covered. Which again as noted is untrue. Because looking around Twitter is, again, only a good barometer for what's happening on Twitter nowadays, and even that's fairly questionable.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Stop being obtuse.

Every major news source has a Twitter account. Its not too difficult to know which news sources to use.

Twitter is still one of the better platforms for breaking news and up to date.

If you want to play the game of Twitter itself. Well no shit, all it is a social media platform.

The reason why this thread is so long and many posts in here criticize how the platform has gone down hill.

Almost everyone in here will source from Twitter.

You know I'd say you're right, except we're entering the age of AI where deepfakes will become excruciatingly common. I'm hoping we get some kind of legislation on the use of AI to make fake news stories, but we all know conservatives love the idea of people being able to say literally anything they want to - even harmful speech. Anything else would be covered by defamation and libel laws. But if we don't crack down on deepfakes it's going to be a wild time to be alive.

[D Luniz]

Stop being obtuse.

Every major news source has a Twitter account. Its not too difficult to know which news sources to use.

Twitter is still one of the better platforms for breaking news and up to date.

If you want to play the game of Twitter itself. Well no shit, all it is a social media platform.

The reason why this thread is so long and many posts in here criticize how the platform has gone down hill.

Almost everyone in here will source from Twitter.

has, but how many USE the anymore to report news?

[Kathranis]

You know I'd say you're right, except we're entering the age of AI where deepfakes will become excruciatingly common. I'm hoping we get some kind of legislation on the use of AI to make fake news stories, but we all know conservatives love the idea of people being able to say literally anything they want to - even harmful speech. Anything else would be covered by defamation and libel laws. But if we don't crack down on deepfakes it's going to be a wild time to be alive.

We already live in a post-truth society where close to half of the population, if not more, chooses to believe whatever fits their worldview, disregarding facts and evidence to the contrary. You don't need AI to convince these people to believe what they want to believe, they already do that on their own.

If anything, "AI" and "deepfake" will just join "fake news" as another casual dismissal of information they want to ignore.

[Elegiac]

If anything, "AI" and "deepfake" will just join "fake news" as another casual dismissal of information they want to ignore.

True, but we can console ourselves with the fact that "AI" is currently ouroboros-ing itself into another winter.

ChatGPT appears to have broken, providing users with rambling responses of gibberish.

In recent hours, the artificial intelligence tool appears to be answering queries with long and nonsensical messages, talking Spanglish without prompting – as well as worrying users, by suggesting that it is in the room with them. There is no clear indication of why the issue happened. But its creators said they were aware of the problem and are monitoring the situation.

In one example, shared on Reddit, a user had been talking about jazz albums to listen to on vinyl. Its answer soon devolved into shouting “Happy listening!” at the user and talking nonsense. Others found that asking simple questions – such as “What is a computer?” – generated paragraphs upon paragraphs of nonsense.

“It does this as the good work of a web of art for the country, a mouse of science, an easy draw of a sad few, and finally, the global house of art, just in one job in the total rest,” read one example answer to that question, shared on Reddit. The development of such an entire real than land of time is the depth of the computer as a complex character.”

In another example, ChatGPT spouted gibberish when asked how to make sundried tomatoes. One of the steps told users to “utilise as beloved”: “Forsake the new fruition morsel in your beloved cookery”, ChatGPT advised people.

Others found that the system appeared to be losing a grip on the languages that it speaks. Some found that it appeared to be mixing Spanish words with English, using Latin – or seemingly making up words that appeared as if they were from another language, but did not actually make sense. Some users even said that the responses appeared to have become worrying. Asked for help with a coding issue, ChatGPT wrote a long, rambling and largely nonsensical answer that included the phrase “Let’s keep the line as if AI in the room”. “Reading this at 2am is scary,” the affected user wrote on Reddit.

On its official status page, OpenAI noted the issues, but did not give any explanation of why they might be happening.

Stop. Look. Think. Are you eating yourself?