Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter

Manchester_lalala said:
I find it confusing that misinformation has only become relevant is in recent months. Twitter has always been rife for it.
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Has it? I remember it being an issue that was brought up in the Brexit vote along with the last two presidential elections before this one. Jon Ronson's book So You've Been Publicly Shamed was talking about the polarization that Twitter causes back in 2015, featuring stories from a good while before that. So that's at least 10 years that people have recognised the issues.

Having said that, I think Musk is the first example of someone buying a social media platform with the explicit intention of weaponizing the influence it creates, in the same way that news barons have done for years. He's basically turned himself into Rupert Murdoch for the 21st century. Facebook definitely had a role in misinformation in the Brexit referendum and various other elections around that time, but I don't think that was some sort of conscious plan from Mark Zuckerberg or others at Facebook, it was arguably a lack of understanding, lack of safeguards against the platform being abused, and a willingness to turn a blind eye as long as the money's coming in.
 
I hope he closes Twitter.

And I hope he also buys Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook... for close them!
 
I checked my Twitter account for a sports account and a video popped up of a bloke running up and doing the cold stunner wresting move on disabled people in the street. Saw him do it to a bling guy with a white stick at a crossing and a guy with crutches before I closed it down for good.
 
grunge said:
I checked my Twitter account for a sports account and a video popped up of a bloke running up and doing the cold stunner wresting move on disabled people in the street. Saw him do it to a bling guy with a white stick at a crossing and a guy with crutches before I closed it down for good.
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It’s pretty incredible (and also very worrying) how quickly it’s turned into a cesspit.
 
grunge said:
I checked my Twitter account for a sports account and a video popped up of a bloke running up and doing the cold stunner wresting move on disabled people in the street. Saw him do it to a bling guy with a white stick at a crossing and a guy with crutches before I closed it down for good.
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Once I deleted it I realised what a completely pointless app it is - didn’t miss it at all, not even bothered to sign up for Bluesky either.
 
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