The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Elon Musk to back out of a settlement he struck with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018, over tweets he made about Tesla that regulators alleged were fraudulent.
To avoid enforcement, Musk agreed to a “Twitter sitter” — a company lawyer that was required to approve any social media posts he made about Tesla. Now, he’s claiming it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, but as @CNN reports, the Supreme Court doesn’t agree.
There’s a healthy amount of disapproval for #Twitter#X’s product direction in this (I don’t like it either). At the same time, Twitter’s change in product direction has changed its user base. It’s no longer representative of the general population. So, even if you support Twitter’s changes under #Musk, the platform is objectively less valuable as a research tool. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112354269950647839
There is a very simple way to ‘fix’ social media, and that is to make platforms legally responsible for all the content posted on their systems. Yes, it would break the business model of such providers, but isn’t that what’s needed, given that they have consistently shown that they are using their power irresponsibly? #SocialMedia#Meta#Twitter
Edit: it has been suggested that legal responsibility should only apply to content “promoted” by platforms. That seems to be an excellent improvement.
Not sure how I feel about being on Mastodon after the announcement of the cofounder of Twitter Biz Stone being appointed to the board of directors on Mastodons new US nonprofit. 😅 I'm wondering how it's going to change things.
Wow wait a minute 👀 the co-founder of Twitter Biz Stone is one of the board of directors for the new Mastodon nonprofit in the U.S. That's interesting.
On #academic#twitter as practiced by #DiabeticOfEnlightenment: "The truth is I love literary criticism. I never want to be confused with some type of guy that’s all anti-theory, “humanities jargon is meaningless,” “let’s get back to philology.” I love academic arguments. And if I make fun of something scholarly online, I’ve almost certainly spent hours and hours reading and thinking about it, so the joke’s ultimately on me."