It’s almost as if paying for a trusted or verified badge makes it easier to spread misinformation
He claims that paying helps eliminate bots, there’s no way he truly believes that or he is dumber than given credit for. The entities that are interested in disinformation have deep pockets.
Musk knows, he just wants to make money.
Why though? How is his life any different if he makes more money?
He can say he makes more money for one. /s
Because Twitter owes more in interest on the loans he took to buy it than it makes every month and he needs to dig himself out of a financial black hole.
What has been his motivation since becoming a millionaire? Money gives him control over others.
I guess that means the dumpster fire platform is working exactly as Space Karen intended
As planned though! Elon Musk doesn’t care about misinfo as long as aligns with his politics.
blue check replies are fucking garbage, i’m so fucking sick of having to scroll thru them for 5 fucking minutes to maybe see a sensible take
why go there at all?
It’s easy to switch platforms. It’s a lot harder to get all your contacts to switch platforms.
If my contacts want to meet at the bar that used to be fun, but is now full of racists and nazis instead of just have one or two wander in occasionall before getting kicked out, they can meet there without me.
Well one new bar that I heard is really good is invite-only and the other is confusing for less bar-savvy friends to get to and use
I’m not an active Twitter user, I’m just imagining the transition pains when the discord servers I use slowly start to migrate somewhere else
It’s not particularly difficult to get rid of a contact.
If i had to guess, habit. If someone’s used to doing something everyday they’re gonna trend towards repeating what’s already engrained into their routine because the familiar shit-show is still more comfortable than the unfamiliar but more enjoyable platforms/habits, whatever they may be
It doesn’t matter how good the new platforms are if the people you follow aren’t there. I do all my posting on Mastodon now but when it comes to people I follow on Twitter virtually none of them have moved their stuff over so I run out of interesting things to check out quickly
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Just stop using it…
Time to leave X then.
People here are just gonna tell you to leave (I have done so myself) but if you can’t for whatever reason something that can help is an extension like Blue Blocker which automatically blocks (or you can set it to mute) blue check marks as you encounter them. That way you don’t give them money for their horrible baits. While I was at Twitter waiting until the people I followed shared their new socials (sadly most went to BlueSky instead of Mastodon so I lost them anyway) I used Blue Blocker in that manner. You can set exceptions for certain accounts tho I didn’t, it mercilessly muted all checkmarks from my feed and revealed the bare Twitter behind. The result was somewhat like old Twitter at first but eventually it does get kinda slow as most of the valuable accounts become inactive. On the bright side that made leaving so much easier, so if you want to leave but need a motivator there’s one that might help you.
That’s a feature not a bug. Delete Twitter
Yep, sounds like Elon and the Saudi’s have achieved their goal of crippling Twitter’s utility as a means of organizing large scale protests and uprisings like the Arab Spring or the BLM protests in 2020. Now all that’s left are propaganda bots and various flavours of right wing extremists.
Oh shit
Oh no :(((((
If only there were a plethora of alternatives people could turn to… but no, Twitter is the only thing oh well
I didn’t say there weren’t alternatives. I said Elon and the Saudi’s achieved their goal of crippling the biggest. I guess reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit, eh?
Everyone continuing to use Twitter/X is thereby materially supporting fascism. That’s what the service exists for today.
Take these fucking fascist for example: https://twitter.com/ACLU
Yes, and? They should stop.
/s?
You take bolder shortcuts than me on Mario Kart
You should probably not listen to the opinion of anyone who pays Elon Musk 8 dollars a month for an emoji.
Elon doesn’t care because he agrees with them.
I’m shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked.
About everyone (including several news sites) have produced false/misleading claims about who launched which rocket and how many were killed and all the other stuff, because this fight is messy, and both sides want to look good.
How many of those misinformers just copied from another source that’s supposed to be more trusted?
I mean this is already unsurprising given how easy it was to get a blue checkmark as a journalist back when it was Twitter.
Literally any media corporation could get it for any of their employees. But for anyone else, you had to pay thousands to get a middleman who had a contact at twitter to verify you. It was such a weird system.
This is not news. Stop upvoting Twitter spam, it’s not even vaguely interesting.
Only fake people need to convince other people they are real
Blue Blocker is a great extension for anyone still using Twitter.
