Elon Musk Buys X (formerly Twitter): Just Use Bluesky, Threads, or Mastodon Instead

[squeekness]

Again thank God he can't run for president.

Seriously. He would be AWFUL! Even worse than the Orange Man.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - These 24 Members of Congress Paid for Twitter

Gizmodo - Want to See How Bad Twitter's Bot Problem Is? Ask for Crypto Help.

 

[Mani-Man]

The Bot problem is currently insane.
I have never had to block as many obvious bot accounts as in recent weeks.
In General the amount of accounts i had to block since Musk bought Twitter, is crazy.

Like, before i had literally 0 blocked, but now im at 200 or what.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Pink News - Anti-Defamation League slams Elon Musk for 'engaging with antisemitic campaign'

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Daily Beast - Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships: [Walter Isaacson’s Musk biography] Report

 

[Morg]

The Daily Beast - Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships: [Walter Isaacson’s Musk biography] Report

Traitor! Arrest that moron for helping the Russians!

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Wall Street Journal - Inside Musk’s Twitter Transformation: Impulsive Decisions, Favors for Friends
Favors for friends Kanye West and Marc Andreessen, and gut decision-making, followed his takeover of the platform now called X

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reuters - Musk-owned X's content moderation shift complicated effort to win back brands
X's new content moderation policy made it challenging to convince brands that the Elon Musk-owned social media platform was safe for ads, according to the company's former head of brand safety and ad quality. / "I don't believe any of what they say anymore," the [ad] buyer said, adding that spending by the firm's clients on X has declined

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Fortune - Exclusive: Elon Musk has just 40,000 paying subscribers on X, a fraction of his 155 million followers

One of its newer tools is called Subscriptions, formerly known as Super Follows, which allows users to provide exclusive content for followers who pay them a monthly fee. The feature was first launched in 2021 and renamed by X owner Elon Musk in April.

Cause his followers are a lot of inauthentic bots.

What an embarrassingly low number of paying morons for Melon’s landfill anyways.

 

[Sithborg]

That is a grand total of $3.8 million a year.

Great thing to bet on.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Guardian - Twitter ‘unfit’ for banking over alleged complicity in Saudi rights abuses
Lawyers for family say Saudi government took brother’s data in breach and ‘arrested, tortured, and imprisoned’ him and others

Letter: DocumentCloud

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Melon himself has repeated Russian propaganda on Twitter.

Even the most charitable reading of Melon is that he doesn't notice anti-semitism, racism, or Russian propaganda like a fish doesn't notice water or humans don't notice oxygen. It's deeply embedded inside of him.


BBC News - Tech firms fail to tackle Russian propaganda - EU

 

[squeekness]

Fortune - Exclusive: Elon Musk has just 40,000 paying subscribers on X, a fraction of his 155 million followers

Cause his followers are a lot of inauthentic bots.

What an embarrassingly low number of paying morons for Melon’s landfill anyways.

Ha!

 

[Mani-Man]

This is real time looking at a guy who falls deeper into reddit conspiracy nonsense.
Like, his takes get worse and worse, you can literally tell he reads further and further into this nonsense and falls for it.

Insane.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Forward - Elon Musk has made some disturbing comments about Jews. Here’s a list (June 9, 2023)


Daily Kos - Elon Musk blames X's failings on Jews

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Sithborg]

Important to remember, he is obsessive about white birth rates.

 

[Mani-Man]

Important to remember, he is obsessive about white birth rates.

Yup, been gong on for years.
A lot of Musk 2023 is not coming out of nowhere, many just ignored this stuff for years because of the idea of the "cool" rich guy.

 

[Teelie]

And his comments are increasingly dropping any pretense and just outright saying facist stuff instead of coding it.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon only loves himself he doesn’t give a crap about the United States and never did. Like Trump.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Media Matters - X is placing ads for brands like the NFL and MLB next to unhinged conspiracy theories about Jewish people and 9/11

 

[Lily Adler]

Media Matters - X is placing ads for brands like the NFL and MLB next to unhinged conspiracy theories about Jewish people and 9/11

George Soros paid Bin Laden... It's the only thing that makes sense.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk's financial interests put him in a position of having his own personal foreign policy, but new reporting shows that whether it's manufacturing in China or the Starlink network being used by Ukraine, Musk's decisions can run counter to stated U.S. policy. Journalist Ronan Farrow reports. - Aired on 09/11/2023.