Jake_VigIt should be obvious by now that the point of purchasing Twitter was to destroy any possibility that you could determine a credible news source. That’s what the whole verification issue is about. The goal was to shift credibility to random, right wing and white supremacist nutjobs who pay.
Coach Pāṇini ®
Don Melton@Jake_Vig This. 💯
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Yes, a hostile takeover of #Twitter by ultra-right opinion was plan A:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110079043525873237
Plan B might still come to fruition, however, if Plan A failes due to #Chapter11 and/or further mass exoduses from the #BorgSite: #ScorchedEarth.
Voron
Itwasntme@Jake_Vig I just keep thinking Murdoch must’ve worn gloves.
Adrienne LaCava
We Can Be Gyros@Jake_Vig how many of you went right back to Facebook for your fix? I hope not a lot. 🏴☠️
Frances_Larina 🏳️⚧️Just preparing for the 2024 elections & other upcoming world events...
Aviva Gary@Jake_Vig This is part of it yes.
Techronic9876@Jake_Vig @StillIRise1963 musk was trying to destroy the vector for the “woke mind virus” he imagines, even if it means destroying Twitter itself
Karen Bethany@Jake_Vig
THIS is why I left Twitter. I refuse to support (even by giving my mostly worthless attention) to a sight that’s actively working to erode the ability to discern credibility.
THIS is why I left Twitter. I refuse to support (even by giving my mostly worthless attention) to a sight that’s actively working to erode the ability to discern credibility.
Skepticat 😸@Jake_Vig or perhaps he bought it with the sole purpose of destroying an organized, centralized democratic platform. I don't think he cares if it burns all the way down as long as the Resistance has been crushed.
Woodchaz@Skepticat @Jake_Vig
It's auto-cannibalism, just like any fascist society. Pretty soon he'll eat up everything but his own head.
It's auto-cannibalism, just like any fascist society. Pretty soon he'll eat up everything but his own head.
BenderIsGreat34@Jake_Vig I don’t think Elon is that strategic and disciplined. There is no plan here. The guy probably huffs paint thinner at 3am every night and sends dick pics to the remaining twitter engineers.
Supportive Tree-based lifeformI think he wanted criticism of himself to end and if he could control the popular forum for journalists... that was within his reach, financially.
Plus other billionaires have been buying up media companies to filter propaganda. Its clear he's both dumb and his motive is to control information.
Aka Hige@Jake_Vig
Similar to my views that the very ultimate goal the new owner wants to achieve is to turn the birdsite into a platform of disinformation and manipulation.
Similar to my views that the very ultimate goal the new owner wants to achieve is to turn the birdsite into a platform of disinformation and manipulation.
2xfo@Jake_Vig
Destroying systems that brought accountability to the wealthiest
Destroying systems that brought accountability to the wealthiest
Cindy T 📚@Jake_Vig You speak the truth, sir.
A Tattered Scrapbook@Jake_Vig Same for “AI”, IMO.
Jamie Mason@Jake_Vig Anymore, yes. It's really sad to watch that platform plummet into the ground. Elon is a complete douche. Most of my friends from Twitter have come over here. I've heard good reviews. I'm excited to be here.
Jamie
Attorney Wonderer@Jake_Vig And to destroy the collective voice.
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@Jake_Vig Absolutely, but I do think #Elmo was stupid enough and vane enough to think that he could make money off it at the same time, by selling Dogecoin to the bozos and having them use that to buy the blue checkmarks. I have screenshots of people he had working on it. I think it’s part of how the investors got him to buy #Twitter. They’re thrilled with how it’s going & so is he, even with a bruised ego. Damaging Dems ability to organize ahead of 2024 is also part of the plan.
Rogue Dog@Jake_Vig this this this!
LG Media@Jake_Vig Identify Users… Identify groups for discrimination and targeting… Pusk the awake crowd (woke) off the platform… Turn Twatter in a right-wing site… Abolish real-time objective reporting… Squash awareness campaigns… Disable democratic conversations
Groovy Tasia@Jake_Vig that and the fact that his little troll brigade built a list of journalists and would constantly harass us
Urban Hermit@Jake_Vig
You're right. Either he is a billionaire who fundamentally doesn't understand the credibility that a professional journalist tries to establish and maintain through out a career, OR he is trying to destroy the distinction between influential opinions and actual facts. Stupid or malicious, and far too much power and money. Either way is terrifying.
The old blue check increase Twitter's credibility, not the other way around.
Ceremus 
@Jake_Vig He certainly favors right-wingers, he's a reactionary after all. But there was never a goal nor a point, don't give him credit for logical thought.
Everything happening can be traced to him buying twtr for an inflated sum (which he tried to back out of), and leveraging it w/ so much debt that it'll cost >$1B annually just to keep the lights on. He's SCRAMBLING for revenue sources, and when he fails to meet that debt obligation then in all likelihood the lights go out for good.
⁰FisherTX14@Jake_Vig
I had that in a jpeg in my bio just before I was banned.
I had that in a jpeg in my bio just before I was banned.
Nebulous Menace (Sandy B.)@Jake_Vig I think there was way more incompetence and ego involved than actual forethought. Exhibit 1: A box that used to hold 44 billion American dollars, and now has at most 20 billion in it.
@Jake_Vig
I think you're giving Elon too much credit. The man's got shit for brains. I would call this floundering.
I think you're giving Elon too much credit. The man's got shit for brains. I would call this floundering.