😂 Elon Musk just crawled from under a rock and discovered something that has been bothering people for years. It is just too funny not to share this one.
This story about Elmo spreading democracy-threatening election misinfo on Twitter is precisely why everyone needs to treat that platform like the pariah it is. No, you sticking around to counter the misinfo won't help. That's like raking leaves in a wind storm. And yes, I know there's community there, but mingling there does you and all of us more harm than good.
The most effective thing you can do is stop giving Twitter oxygen and allowing it to become just another fringe outlet, like 4chan or Daily Caller. With the very real prospect Trump will retake the White House, this stuff matters.
Visa stopped posting on Twitter.
Etsy stopped posting on Twitter.
Adobe stopped posting on Twitter.
Lady Gaga stopped posting on Twitter.
Taylor Swift stopped posting on Twitter.
Mastercard stopped posting on Twitter.
McDonald's stopped posting on Twitter.
Ein großer Teil der israelischen Bevölkerung ist weit davon entfernt, Netanjahus unflexiblen Anti-Zwei-Staaten-Strategien zuzustimmen. Tatsächlich betrachten ihn viele als die Ursache der aktuellen Katastrophe, die sich in Gaza immer noch ausweitet.
Just released a new YouTube video about why we're all still trapped on Twitter even as the platform continues to circle the toilet drain. (I know, the irony of posting this here...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tUhFpbXLk
@PCMag With the API that used to be free I used to be able to use an app like Plume to access the #birdsite. I also had some scripts that occasionally posted some useful information. Now the API itself costs money to use and not seeing ads on the official app / on the web is hugely expensive. And the platform is open to people formerly banned.
So-called "verified” users on the former Twitter, who now pay to have a blue check, pushed 74% of the most viral false Israel-Hamas war-related claims, according to a NewsGuard analysis shared with Adweek. “This is another nail in the coffin for X in terms of deteriorating advertisers’ trust,” said Ruben Schreurs, chief strategy officer at independent marketing and media consultancy Ebiquity. https://www.adweek.com/media/verified-accounts-x-spread-wartime-misinformation/
@andreabettini analisi statistiche peraltro molto complicate da fare oggi, in una fase in cui le API messe a disposizione da #Xhitter (e solo a pagamento) consentono indagini molto parziali...
Il ché conferma tutti i peggiori sospetti sul vero motivo per cui le possibilità di indagine sui contenuti della piattaforma siano stati limitati così tanto dalla nuova dirigenza di quello che era uno dei social network più aperti alle analisi di terze parti 🤷🏽♂️
@GhostOnTheHalfShell dont feed amazon, dont use PayPal, don't get a Tesla, or star link, or use #xhitter dont use applepay, or google, for anything, deny, deny, deny.
Would you trust Elon Musk with your biometric data?
With a history of complying with requests from authoritarian regimes, Musk's record will give human rights defenders and marginalised communities cause for alarm.
Biometric data is permanent and unchangeable to a person. If it gets shared, it can mean lifelong #privacy impacts.
A prospect made ever more threatening without knowing how long the data will be retained, how it's secured, or if it's ever deleted.