There's really not much meat to this article. The author starts out by rehashing recent scandals more or less verbatim, and I thought he was building up to some larger point but then the last few...
There's really not much meat to this article. The author starts out by rehashing recent scandals more or less verbatim, and I thought he was building up to some larger point but then the last few paragraphs quickly transition to an ad for Threads.
I'm fully in the camp that Twitter is "poisoned" as the headline suggests, but there's really nothing in this article to support that assertion beyond the author's parroting of recent headlines. He compares Musk to Trump in the way they both embody the tweet-to-headline pipeline, but Trump never faced any real comeuppance for his deranged tweets so why should that be a cautionary tale for Musk?
It's poorly written. For instance: This glosses over the fact that not only was he unbanning literal Nazis, but he was also banning people who disagreed with him, or he brought to light things he...
It's poorly written. For instance:
He has allowed banned users back onto the platform
This glosses over the fact that not only was he unbanning literal Nazis, but he was also banning people who disagreed with him, or he brought to light things he didn't personally want attention brought to - like a journalist covering the ElonJetTracker project.
Georgia's racketeering indictment against former President Trump and 18 of his allies lists 161 "overt acts" allegedly committed in furtherance of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
12 of those overt acts are tweets sent from Trump's account.
This bit is not quite true to my experience: It does seem to be hard to avoid talking about Musk's antics online, whatever platforms you use. But thanks to the realtwitter redirect and being...
This bit is not quite true to my experience:
Like Donald Trump’s erstwhile tweets, Musk’s own posts tend to instantly dominate discussion on the platform. His beliefs have become an unavoidable part of the X experience.
It does seem to be hard to avoid talking about Musk's antics online, whatever platforms you use. But thanks to the realtwitter redirect and being careful who I follow, I have somehow managed to never see Musk's tweets when using Twitter/X itself. I read about Musk on other platforms, including Tildes topics like this one.
This New Yorker article is also the first time I actually read what Musk's antisemitism tweet was about, versus all the reactions to it. (Yes, I could have done a search if I were curious.) A side effect of social media seems to be reading lots of reactions first, and only later finding out what happened.
Recently I got a BlueSky invite. The mix of posts on the Discover tab reminds me of old Twitter, but not the parts I like, and I haven't seen anything that wants me to follow anyone.
There is still plenty of discussion on Threads about X and Musk—mostly complaints. But the man himself is blissfully absent, which might be the new platform’s best feature.
I don't know about Threads, but I just saw two screenshots of something dumb Musk said on the Discover feed on BlueSky. It seems like that can happen on any platform that supports images?
There's really not much meat to this article. The author starts out by rehashing recent scandals more or less verbatim, and I thought he was building up to some larger point but then the last few paragraphs quickly transition to an ad for Threads.
I'm fully in the camp that Twitter is "poisoned" as the headline suggests, but there's really nothing in this article to support that assertion beyond the author's parroting of recent headlines. He compares Musk to Trump in the way they both embody the tweet-to-headline pipeline, but Trump never faced any real comeuppance for his deranged tweets so why should that be a cautionary tale for Musk?
It's poorly written. For instance:
This glosses over the fact that not only was he unbanning literal Nazis, but he was also banning people who disagreed with him, or he brought to light things he didn't personally want attention brought to - like a journalist covering the ElonJetTracker project.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/15/politics/trump-twitter-direct-messages/index.html
Well, give it a minute or two…
Mirror, for those hit by the paywall:
https://archive.is/tt6Gm
This bit is not quite true to my experience:
It does seem to be hard to avoid talking about Musk's antics online, whatever platforms you use. But thanks to the realtwitter redirect and being careful who I follow, I have somehow managed to never see Musk's tweets when using Twitter/X itself. I read about Musk on other platforms, including Tildes topics like this one.
This New Yorker article is also the first time I actually read what Musk's antisemitism tweet was about, versus all the reactions to it. (Yes, I could have done a search if I were curious.) A side effect of social media seems to be reading lots of reactions first, and only later finding out what happened.
Recently I got a BlueSky invite. The mix of posts on the Discover tab reminds me of old Twitter, but not the parts I like, and I haven't seen anything that wants me to follow anyone.
I don't know about Threads, but I just saw two screenshots of something dumb Musk said on the Discover feed on BlueSky. It seems like that can happen on any platform that supports images?