“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes::"'Election Integrity' Team... was undermining election integrity," Musk writes.

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[+] 208 points 3 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (31 children)
  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Most everyone I know doesn't have a Twitter or Instagram. Obv I deleted my reddit. What are people supposed to do except just not use the platform? Most authors I want to follow are on substack or mastodon.

    I think that as the platforms further enshittify, people will realize there are no intelligent conversations happening on platforms like X, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Ragebait content can only captivate audiences for so long before they either abandon it or are brainwashed by it. If everyone on X is a musk dickrider right wing lunatic then it makes it easier for sane people to stay off of it. Honestly it might be better to give them their safespace echo chamber as long as Democrats, liberals and libertarians mobilize and make their arguments where it matters.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Let's hope the FCC and whatever other agencies applicable, get teeth and clamp down hard on how these social media giants. the way they operate its damn near treasonous at this point how open they are with allowing other governments to influence their policies. Especially with advertising and to children.

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    [–] 122 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Incredible. He bought Twitter just to turn it into Truth Social.

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  • [–] 93 points 3 years ago

    conservative doesn't like being treated like an equal, decides to abolish the group that produced evidence suggesting equality

    Sounds about right

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  • [–] 74 points 3 years ago (24 children)

    Aside from conservatives, what fascist dipshits still use Twitter? It's just a cesspool of disinformation and bigotry, so I just assume anyone who uses it is a lying bigot.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago (19 children)

    Most businesses and institutions still use twitter as their primary communication and support channels. My "wokest" friend still uses it every day, while constantly bitching about Elon. Convenience and habit are a hell of a drug...

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I walked past an ambulance the other day and noticed that my city's ambulances have the little bird logo along with the local EMS twitter handle (I live somewhere with publicly funded healthcare). I found myself wondering, "are they going to switch their fleet to use the X logo?" It's funny how much we allowed this private company's little bird logo to worm its way into every aspect of our world. People took for granted that it would always exist and always be something people had a positive association with.

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    [–] 69 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Funny that the worse the Republicans are doing the more some people want to take the filters off of social media.

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  • [–] 70 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Right Wingers have always gotten preferential treatment and soft touch moderation on social media, because..

    1. Their user base is fucking morons who click every ad, and buy tons of stupid shit (specially if it has their team name on it) bringing in disproportionate income

    2. They know the bulk of their moderation problems are from Right wingers, and don't want to look biased and drive them away by holding them to the same standard they hold everyone else, So they just let the right wingers get away with shit that would get cracked down and account bans handed out for anyone else.

    3. Their own algorithms have been proven to amplify right wing tweets, thus making it easier to find hate messages than it is to find anything else, because they are in bed with the right.

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  • [–] 68 points 3 years ago (24 children)

    2024 is going to be a bad, bad year.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (16 children)

    As will be every year after that. It's all downhill from here folks.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    Pessimism literally helps nobody, it just makes people more depressed and less likely to do anything about a bad situation. Don't forget that last election had one of the highest young voter turnouts ever recorded, and was by far a huge swing to liberal. Since then the Republican party hasn't even been close to as organised as they were during 2016 and 2020.

    Change can and will happen. It already is, albeit slowly and with bumps along the road, just like any progression in society.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Pessimism literally helps nobody, it just makes people more depressed and less likely to do anything about a bad situation.

    Change can and will happen. It already is, albeit slowly and with bumps along the road, just like any progression in society.

    Yep. Seriously, keep the faith. And fight the good fight.

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    [–] 62 points 3 years ago

    When you’ve lived a life of privilege, equality seems like oppression.

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  • [+] 61 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 55 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    Goverments should have their own fediverse instances and delete all their twitter accounts 🤷

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago

    I think they will and the history books will say "In retrospect, having politicians use a privately owned platform to speak to their constituents was a bad call, as Traitor and Child Murderer Elon Musk demonstrated."

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    [–] 53 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    If 4chan made Trump win in 2016, Twitter might make Trump win in 2024. Which is a scary thought. Just imagine the level of control one rich man can have over the information highway, Twitter, one of the biggest social media sites in the world, used still by many politicians, journalists and reporters on both sides. It's happening.

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  • [–] 65 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Twitter made Trump win in 2016. Like, did people seriously forget about „Trump tweeted“ headlines that dominated daily news for years? The same news that would then claim a small obscure website like 4Chan made Trump president single-handedly. I mean I almost can‘t blame you for memory holing those years, but claiming Twitter wasn‘t absolute dog water before Musk is simply wrong.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    In a documentary made during the 2016 election cycle Trump talks about how much better his PR team is because he doesn't have to use traditional channels to reach his base, he can just tweet it when ever he wants to tell the world something.

    He was very much using twitter as a primary communication channel from the begining, and this time around, he has both twitter and truth social as his basically his own.

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  • [–] 51 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    This American Life had a good segment about a content moderator at Twitter

    https://www.thisamericanlife.org/797/what-i-was-thinking-as-we-were-sinking/act-two-7

    Like the main content moderator who quit.

    Note it's 30+minutes and takes a little while to get to Twitter, but it includes reported interactions with Musk.

    It talks about the election group of moderators.

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    [–] 43 points 3 years ago

    Fucking hate this man.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Wait, so the team in charge of misinformation got misinformed about getting fired instead of expanded?

    Guy sure loves his irony...

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    [–] 38 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm going to be so happy when Musk gets brought up on election charges.

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    [+] 28 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    When will the Tesla board of directors move against Musk as CEO to save the company?

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    [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    Tbf they're a social media company. If they shut down completely the world wouldn't really skip a beat.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    Elon Musk is a fucking Neo Nazi aka "The Modern Day Republican", anything that even acknowledges the Democrats as a viable political party is "Extremist Far Left Nonsense" to these deplorables.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    How much do you think Linda Yaccarino is enjoying her job as CEO?

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    I completely believe that they were failing.

    Question is how bad will the PsyOps and interference get? Without them?

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    [–] 16 points 3 years ago*

    ah our dayli reminder that Elon Musk is a cunt and as always he delivers!

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