“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.
This reminds me about how the head of Salem Media Group said “well if you look at fact checkers, they’re all liberal!”, completely oblivious that he just admitted conservatives are bald faced liars.
The truth and facts have left leaning bias. The right has no choice but to lie. Their policies are unpopular and unsupported.
Goverments should have their own fediverse instances and delete all their twitter accounts 🤷
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.”
a la Truth Social?
(It is a fediverse instance)
That’s an interesting way to say you don’t know what the fediverse is.
https://pocketnow.com/trump-truth-social-network-removes-most-freedom-friendly-features-fediverse/
Its a fediverse instance, just not in the more “traditional” way.
It literally has all the federation features removed. By definition it isn’t part of the fediverse, because it’s not federating anything
If I set up my own mastodon server, but blocked literally all federation, then my server wouldn’t be part of the fediverse. It’s a bit odd that this has to be elaborated on
It’s not…? It’s literally just another social media site, it doesn’t hook into ActivityPub or any cross-broadcast protocol. I don’t know why you’re throwing around the word “fediverse” here.
It is a fork of Mastodon though, iirc. But I don’t think it federates with anything.
Nah, more like this https://social.network.europa.eu/
Same for news organizations. Give the option for reporters that leave or join the organization to migrate their account (aka keep their followers).
That way they provide a proof of authenticity for their reporters by being hosted on their Mastodon instance. Obviously, the instance shouldn’t let the public create an account there, only follow from another instance.
That does make a lot of sense!
This is a very strange comparison, considering Truth Social is not owned by any government.
It’s more to compare when one government interest (Trump / far right Republican) group creates a fediverse, and how just because it’s a fediverse instance doesn’t make it instantly good or infallible.
I don’t think @onlineperson meant this as “host their own social network”, but as “host their own micro-messaging platform to release news which is part of the fediverse”. This would make them resilient against PoS like Musk, while making their news accessible to a wide variety of users.
Exactly what I mean. The Netherlands has one, Germany too, and even the European Union, but it isn’t their major presence and IMO, it should be.
2024 is going to be a bad, bad year.
No, I’m banking on the younger generations coming out of the woodwork. They’ve dealt with so much and really hoping they realize their vote could really send these dinosaurs into extinction.
Taylor Swift seems to be doing a good job with that.
Didn’t she get like 150k people to register in a day with an Instagram story or something
The fact that Republicans are already going after her about it shows how scared they are of the impact Gen Z is going to have in 2024
Register where? What’s the story?
Register to vote. Americans have to register or they cannot vote.
Ah ok. Didn’t know she did that. Kudos to her.
I agree, I have some hope as common folk get more and more tuned in, especially as obscure runs like the Wisconsin Supreme Court judgeship and votes against the Ohio constitutional amendment process change result in overwhelming positive outcomes.
As will be every year after that. It’s all downhill from here folks.
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.
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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The Russian misinfo version: ℤ
Fucking hate this man.
When will the Tesla board of directors move against Musk as CEO to save the company?
I just bought a new electric car. Didn’t even consider Tesla because of this guy.
Same when I bought mine last year. I’m very irked by the fact that most manufacturers are changing to their charging plug too. I want nothing to do with anything Tesla/Musk.
While it’s a Tesla plug, at least a standard is reached, which will.speed charging stations deployments.
A standard was reached, and everyone except Tesla was on board, and now everyone is for some reason getting on board with yet another standard.
They can’t because the company is propped up entirely by his cult of personality. If he goes, Tesla and SpaceX will collapse
Tesla at this point is fine standing on its own. The management at Tesla for years has run interference between musk and the actual engineers. Musk did a lot of necessary fund raising early.on but at this point he is a mass.liability and sales are falling. Tesla has more competition than ever, and he is driving away people who.would buy tesla cars. The right doesn’t buy electric vehicles.
I don’t know where you got the idea that SpaceX is propped up by musks personality, SpaceX is propped up by currently being the most revolutionary space company in the world.
Musk is a dickhead but the spaceX engineers are doing incredible things and advancing humanities space access forward. What SpaceX has done for the global space access can’t be understated.
I think SpaceX will be fine, Tesla I think you’re mostly right. Tesla’s valuation has been almost entirely his cult, but the shine is pretty much off that apple. There has already been some vocal outcry over his antics, and if he had a real board instead of his brother and sycophants, he’d probably already be gone. Any responsible board at this point would see that Tesla is having massive internal struggles (they ship about 60/40 cars to vaporware and have increasing issues with QA and service) and the thing it mostly had going for it was first mover advantage which they’ve now mostly squandered. They still have a good business with the supercharger network, and with proper leadership could still be a big player in the space, but they’re about to be inundated with competition they’ve never really had. They’ve sort of already lost the cool kid premium status to Rivian and Lucid, and Model 3 is about to face competition in a way it never really has.
So all that, and the CEO is shitposting conspiracy theories on his pet project social media app that he’s publicly mismanaging by basically all measures. Like I said, any real board, he’d already be out. I suspect that unless something changes, it won’t be long before there will be real moves to remove him.
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.
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.
This week’s On with Kara Swisher has back to back interviews with Yoel Roth (the guy in the TAL ep) and the new CEO of Twitter, Linda Yaccarino and it’s worth a listen.
The juxtaposition of the two interviews is something. Roth comes across as a smart, serious person trying to (and admittedly sometimes failing) be a good steward of the internet and tackles the challenges using facts and data. Yaccarino follows up by literally being the definition of a stooge. Very clearly not attached to reality, doesn’t know things that Musk has tweeted in spite of saying at the top of the interview they’re 100% attached and in the loop with everything Elon’s doing. Absolute clown show.
So yeah, expect literally everyone to have a hand in the cookie jar come the '24 election. There isn’t enough competence in the company to fill a thimble at this point, and leadership at the company probably is either entirely ignorant of the problem(Yacco), or actively engaging in sabotage in tandem (Musk.)
I completely believe that they were failing.
Question is how bad will the PsyOps and interference get? Without them?
Depends on how relevant twitx still is come the elections…
It will still be relevant with the minority that holds the majority of power in the US due to gerrymandering, the electoral college, and all of the effort that Republicans have put into making it extremely difficult for people in cities to vote. I mean Fox News was only relevant to them in the last several elections.
The next time there’s an election that the Republicans try to steal, X (formerly Twitter) will now work to back up their lies completely. That’s what’s really happening here.
Not QUITE how Twitter works, Democrats can pay for ads and run all the psyops they want with fake accounts too.
Question is whether any Chinese or Russian intelligence teams decide targeting messages at lefties is going to contribute towards their goals as a whole.
So Putin told you to do this? I mean, why else would you do something so blatantly stupid?
Wait, so the team in charge of misinformation got misinformed about getting fired instead of expanded?
Guy sure loves his irony…
The people in charge of sacking the people responsible for the credits have been sacked.
A moose once bit my sister.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Guess they should have fact checked it.
When you’ve lived a life of privilege, equality seems like oppression.
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.
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.
Mueller has me convinced Russian social media farms made Trump win.
James Fucking Comey certainly didn’t help.
I’m going to be so happy when Musk gets brought up on election charges.
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