After Musk’s mass layoffs, X says it’s expanding safety and election teams
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X promises to prevent "the promotion of false or misleading content".
Why do I get the feeling that this promise itself is false or misleading content?
Why do I get the feeling that this promise itself is false or misleading content?
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The whole situation reminds me of the principle of Chesterton's fence, which says: "Don't remove a fence until you see why it was put up in the first place."
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"monitoring the platform for emerging threats". What? Are they afraid of the competition?
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Because that would mean they would have to stop promoting their owner.
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Ye of little faith.
I wouldn't be surprised if it does work exactly as Musk intends it to. Just not the way he says it's going to work.
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I give it a day.
Something is going to go horribly wrong with this.
Political ads from putin?
Something is going to go horribly wrong with this.
Political ads from putin?
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This should be good, given how detached from reality Musk is.
From any other company I'd see this as a fight to support truth and reality. In this case, I imagine that anyone saying the election WASN'T rigged will get their account suspended.
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Off Topic: Remember when Trump wanted to nuke a hurricane? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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Someone did some napkin math and decided that the added revenue from political ads would somehow be greater than the cost of dealing with the inevitable flood of lawsuits from people whose ads they've removed.
Or they're just lying and they won't remove anything. That seems more likely.
Or they're just lying and they won't remove anything. That seems more likely.
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Ye of too much faith! I don't expect it to work anywhere close to what Musk thinks (if he even bothered to think).
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Indeed. Every time I see a piece of absurdity in the strata of the code I maintain for my day job I have to remind myself of this before I glibly reintroduce a decade-old edge-case. Something Twittex's engineers might be repeatedly reminded of in the upcoming weeks.
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I miss Science Twitter and IT Security Twitter. But not enough that I have logged on in 2023.
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Oh it'll work exactly the way Musk intends it to. The floodgates will open for every kind of lie imaginable from Republicans and their ilk, while Democratic ads will be taken down or rejected for saying "abortion".
2024 is gonna be a fun ride, y'all.
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Every single one of these moves should be ridiculed and condemned. Lil' Musky has a demonstrable public pattern of political ideology that veers way right and seems to align with all kind of ism's that are problematic. It's his platform and he can do what he wants with it, but we need to stop pretending that these changes are designed to do anything but stroke his ego and create avenues for his particular ideologies to flourish.
He's acted in bad faith the entire way with Twitter and should be treated as such until evidence suggests a change in pattern.
He's acted in bad faith the entire way with Twitter and should be treated as such until evidence suggests a change in pattern.
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Sure the linked story mentions the nearly 80% staff reduction, but it don't include the number of contractors that were also cut. It's a far larger swath of layoff and destruction than the ~6,000 mentioned, per Ars at least another 5,000 contractors were cut. No way that could have any impact on operations... none.... well maybe just a little.
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For a brief moment, I was relieved to see that you changed your avatar again. Could you settle on a more appealing theme, like maybe the brain nematode?
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Ordering pants to help manage the Schadenboner in case the big crash and burn happens while I'm at the office.
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Twitter made less than $10 million on political ads in 2018. The liability has got to be far greater than $10 million.
The total pie is $10 billion, but most is going to TV. The part that's digital gets sliced into Facebook/Meta and Youtube/Google.
If there is no clear financial motive, there has to be another motive.
The total pie is $10 billion, but most is going to TV. The part that's digital gets sliced into Facebook/Meta and Youtube/Google.
If there is no clear financial motive, there has to be another motive.
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This is inaccurate, Twitter also calls itself Twitter
At least on the mobile web where the little "download the app" banner tells me that Twitter is better in the Twitter app than on https://twitter.com.
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AmanoJyaku
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Changed from Sidney "Kraken" Powell to John "Brain Nematode" Eastman.
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<chant in the background> Bring back Twitter! Bring back Twitter!
Seriously, the article has this embedded tweet with a hilarious video.
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Why even call the site X to begin with? Does Elon get angy and threaten news outlets that still call it Twitter or something?
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Because officially that's the name of the site, so journalists with any skill or integrity state that. Then the journalists with humor add in the "...which most people call Twitter", which is perfect.
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Remember when Trump violated federal law by illegally modifying a government weather forecast?
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Well yeah it seriously streamlined the whole organization since they didn't have to reply to requests for information needed for the report that was being compiled for the FTC. Or spend time away from hardcore coding to ban people, other then the ones that Musk doesn't like, for violating the ToS.
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And my first thought was about the list of hand picked Xitters that got the early ad revenue. About a third of them were, unsurprisingly, political nonsense peddlers. Nope, not believing those promises for a second, in fact, expecting even more nonsense.
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Hire people? Who on earth would agree to work for Xwitter?
You'd have to be pretty desperate knowing that:
1) Every aspect of your job and work life is subject to the petty whims of CEO child, and
2) You're likely never going to see a dime of your salary, even if you sue.
You'd have to be pretty desperate knowing that:
1) Every aspect of your job and work life is subject to the petty whims of CEO child, and
2) You're likely never going to see a dime of your salary, even if you sue.
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