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My pet theory is that Musk acquired Twitter to destroy one of the most effective platforms for anyone on the left to organize.
Just wait for the quid pro quo. SpaceX was supposed to get us back to the moon on 3 billion dollars. They are now at 5 billion dollars, and all they have to show for it is a flaming husk of a booster caught by “the chopsticks”.
For anyone who thinks that was some incredible accomplishment… NASA has been landing rovers on Mars using truly incredible engineering that makes SpaceX look like a bunch of kids eating Baby Ruth bars in the sandbox.
So if Elon gets appointed to a government position and starts awarding Tesla and SpaceX all kinds of extended taxpayer-funded gravy grift, you will know your pet theory is 100% spot on.
And/or weaponize it for his buddies to do so instead…
I still think he bought into the Twitter files conspiracy.
Same on Threads.
Everything went quiet.
I would love to see these accounts, when they were opened, when they ceased posting, what they posted, and what the IP addresses were.
Same on Lemmy to be fair.
I was thinking about this recently. I’m not disagreeing that there isn’t massive bot bullshit.
But I purposely stayed off the internet for like 48 hours. Many of my friends did too.
I don’t agree with all of this. I agree with the investigation. I agree with the ban. I don’t agree with waiting for anything. Ban it, irrespective of the investigation. It’s a cesspool, and no investigation is going to fix that.
Edit: autocorrect.
It’s a little bit naive and self destructive that human beings have created tools as powerful as mainstream social media with absolutely no checks or balances, absolutely no accountability, absolutely no transparency, and entirely at the whims of billionaire owners and nation states they’re in bed with.
Regulating and banning social media that is being used to blatantly conduct massive psyops should be uncontroversial.
I’m sick of private ownership and private decision making about every fucking single aspect of human life from who gets housed to who gets fed to our very culture.
Americans “hate” dictatorships but allow the economy to be run by a bunch of Lords.
Socialism is the democratization of the economy. Socialism puts the human and the worker and the people most impacted by these economic decisions at the helm.
But no, democracy in the economy wouldn’t be free. We need to slave away for fascist dictators.
fuck musk, fuck twitter and especially fuck kraut.
fuck Kraut because he supports Ukraine’s right to defend itself?
what? no because he’s a western chauvinist and an islamophobe. everyone fucking hates him.
Why is anyone still using twitter?
because other people are. idk why anyone has trouble understanding that for most users social media is only as good as its population.
The biggest problem is the damage is done.
The party holds the supreme court. House. Senate. Executive. Under the unitary executive theory, the rest of the federal government, while being completely inept, will be party members.
All we can do now, is collectively survive. It’s a death cult. Steps we take to prevent the detainment, torture and death of our neighbors, friends, and family are the biggest fuck you to these people.
I don’t know how we’ll do it. But we don’t do it by joining or tolerating them. We don’t have to make it easy for them.
The post is about not letting it happen in the EU.
no reason why Europe and the american opposition can’t be on the same side
Eh, well, no not in principle or ideology, but I replied to a comment that conflated the EU with the recent American presidential elections.
To clarify, the topic of this post is that Russia has already established strong influence over American politics and must be stopped from gaining such over Europe as well. It is not by “opposition” (not sure what you mean by that), but by legislation by the European Parliament to stop Twitter, TicToc and other social media run in the interest of foreign intelligence operations to interfere with future European elections.
That is, in the European Union we currently don’t need to oppose the parliament but we all agree that Russia needs to be shut out from our politics and recognize that twatter is now to be considered a political operation in Russian interests to destabilise the west.
Edit: Explaining to Americans that discussion can actually be about Europe and that they situation in Europe is different than in USA. Downvoted. Yeah, I wonder why you guys have these anger issues everywhere.
I am aware.
350m people have been affected by it in the US. With the ties we have to Europe, it’s already been happening.
From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
before he does it to us
Too late, sorry.
I finally deleted my account. Had since 2007…it’s not useful anymore.
Going from X account…
To ex account.
Good on you.
Haven’t deleted mine yet but have two active accounts on blusky and mastodon and my twitter one is inactive with a pinned post linking my new socials.
Honestly that might be more helpful.
I sometimes see the overwritten reddit comments when searching for a topic, and I wish that the comment would link to the person’s new account (wherever they may be) in addition to the usual blurb on whg they aren’t active on reddit anymore
Like, where is his data? Is there a list of all bot accounts on Twitter, with a column showing recent activity? Or is this guy doing the same thing as the other side - talking out of his ass?
Have you been on twitter recently? [Note that I recommend users do not use twitter]
It’s pretty obvious when for the past two weeks you had every single tweet of yours get spammed replies like “#TRUMP2024 #MAGA” with clearly AI generated profile pictures and fake names. All these accounts have like 20 followers and are following 5k+ accounts. And a bunch of them instantly reply to your posts like 5 seconds after posting. All these accounts have ceased activity overnight.
Nah, I don’t go on Twitter. Too many bots.
Probably talking out of his ass. I like to read conservative threads to see comments outside of my bubble - they say the same shit, just about other platforms like reddit.
It’s the age of post-truth and I don’t think there is a fix for that anytime soon.
they say the same shit, just about other platforms like reddit.
Maybe because that is also true. Reddit is full of bots lately, you have to be blind not to realize that
Kraut is a decently respected figure with a Phd in central european history.
He may be the inventor of politics for all I care, credentials are no indicator of truth.
A claim such as this needs some data, otherwise it’s not much better than any right-wing conspiracy.
Isn’t it obvious from his tweet that he doesn’t have data, therefore, his conclusion must be based on personal experience and input from others. Which is why he doesn’t call for twitter to be banned, but for it to be investigated.
And regardless there have been multiple credible news stories and even US government reports on pro-Trump bot networks on twitter.
It is obvious, you’re right. I just feel like the proper course of action wouldn’t have been a claim and a demand for an investigation. Maybe ask others for their experiences and link a petition for people to sign, should they share this feeling, and start an investigation that way.
Arf Arf Arf!
I feel like compiling receipts (a list of known/suspected bot accounts) and then following the paper trail would be a good idea… like Wolverine hunting down the school bomber during Civil War
before? where have you been this whole time?
what would happen if it came out that musk played with the voting totals? sure seems odd for the repugs to pull 94% as much as shown
What is he talking about?
Twitter is riddled with MAGA bots. Like AI generated accounts who spam pro-Trump content.
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Why are they asking for Europe to investigate election interference in the US? I’m pretty sure they’ll just claim that isn’t their jurisdiction.
Investigating what happened in the US so somebody doesn’t do it to the EU.
And how do you expect them to do that? US sure as hell won’t grant them access to whatever resources/servers they ask. If anything, push for US to investigate election interference.
The US doesn’t have to agree. Twitter has to, and if they refuse they can get the hell out of the European market
