Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

The current state of Twitter Titter:

Is Twitter finally dying?

After an extraordinarily chaotic past few weeks, the slow death of Twitter seems to be speeding up.

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[meltonblue]

The “for you” bit of it is pretty much unusable now. It’s the complete opposite of what I’d consider for me.

 

[BlueHammer85]

The “for you” bit of it is pretty much unusable now. It’s the complete opposite of what I’d consider for me.

Same, it’s basically clickbait headlines to wind you up

 

[Mancityus]

Did he expose him? Or did he brush aside the fact numerous independent organisations tracking racism and hate speech have shown there’s more racism and hate speech on twitter now because the interviewer couldn’t name a specific example?

Elon switches from arguing we have to allow hate speech because free speech is absolute to insisting there’s no more hate speech than there was when it was moderated which everyone knows is a lie,

The bbc interviewer made a mistake a Elon scored some points, but it doesn’t change the fact there is more hate speech on twitter now that he’s allowing literal nazi’s back on to spread their word.

He exposed the propaganda that bbc indulges in regularly, if bbc has a problem with how the interview went they should come out and publish what their reporter could not answer. Knowing bbc though, just a tool, not expecting it to happen.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

He exposed the propaganda that bbc indulges in regularly, if bbc has a problem with how the interview went they should come out and publish what their reporter could not answer. Knowing bbc though, just a tool, not expecting it to happen.

Missing the point. They could put up an article with dozens examples but it doesn't beat the "you can't name a single example" debating society points win that Mollusc got because they would have spent hours researching them.

It’s not really surprising a technology reporter isn't as polished at adversarial style interviews as e.g., a political journalist.

 

[Mancityus]

Missing the point. They could put up an article with dozens examples but it doesn't beat the "you can't name a single example" debating society points win that Mollusc got because they would have spent hours researching them.

It’s not really surprising a technology reporter isn't as polished at adversarial style interviews as e.g., a political journalist.

Well then bbc not only indulges in propaganda but employs highly incompetent staff who would raise issues they have no way to substantiate.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Well then bbc not only indulges in propaganda but employs highly incompetent staff who would raise issues they have no way to substantiate.

He could substantiate it, he cited secondary sources and it was glossed over.

His key competency isn't adversarial interviews so it doesn't make him incompetent that he didn't fool anyone that he is good as his colleagues in other departments.

 

[domalino]

He exposed the propaganda that bbc indulges in regularly, if bbc has a problem with how the interview went they should come out and publish what their reporter could not answer. Knowing bbc though, just a tool, not expecting it to happen.

I don't think you even know what the word propaganda means.

 

[mcfcphil]

Missing the point. They could put up an article with dozens examples but it doesn't beat the "you can't name a single example" debating society points win that Mollusc got because they would have spent hours researching them.

It’s not really surprising a technology reporter isn't as polished at adversarial style interviews as e.g., a political journalist.

This is a highly-political subject and an interview with an extremely powerful person who is adversarial by nature. The BBC should absolutely have known what to expect so sending a journalist who isn't competent operating in that arena is a huge error in judgement.

 

[domalino]

This is a highly-political subject and an interview with an extremely powerful person who is adversarial by nature. The BBC should absolutely have known what to expect so sending a journalist who isn't competent operating in that arena is a huge error in judgement.

There's a reason Musk's next interview is with Tucker Carlson.

He's not accepting interviews from seasoned news editors with decades of interviewing experience and a big team behind them to prep and cross examine his sentences live.

The BBC said the interview was set up last minute, they probably made the mistake of accepting the interview Musk wanted, but it's still provided some pretty interesting tidbits of information, like Musk lying about advertisers coming back, and his absolute best case scenario being a return to break even (which means he's losing $1Bn to interest payments)