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Taylor LorenzSome of the most viral misinformation on Twitter is posted by Twitter blue subscribers who pay for their content to be promoted to other users https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66113460
Brian Pepple 
@taylorlorenz Not terribly surprising. Hopefully, Twitter will become even *less* relevant by the time the 2024 Election comes around.
Steffen Christensen@brian @taylorlorenz It would be pretty ironic if we owe the saving of democracy to Zuck and Threads sinking Twitter's audience...
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote
Ntuw@Pineywoozle @Wikisteff @brian @taylorlorenz people are delusional. Read about "herd behaviour". That is why they still believe (or say so) in everything that they think is widely accepted as truth (without having the guts to go against it).
Bad at NamesMusk getting what he wants - money from fascists to push fascist propaganda.
BeBo@GrittyLipids @taylorlorenz … to a fascist audience.
aka “preaching to the choir”.
Shoq@taylorlorenz You’re my favorite journo influencer. What’s your take on Threads thus far?
@film_girl , same question?
Unabogie has voted Kamala!@shoq @taylorlorenz @film_girl
I think the UI needs some work. And also that Meta hands over user data to police who prosecute women for having abortions.
dcast@unabogie @shoq @taylorlorenz @film_girl you are delusional if you think they are alone in this practice. I bet everyone of them are doing this, I know Google is.
@dcast @shoq @taylorlorenz @film_girl
I never said that. And you're engaging in whataboutism.
So be gone.
neutrino78x@dcast @unabogie @shoq @taylorlorenz @film_girl
dcast -- unfortunately they have to if there's a court order. The battle is state to state, now.
GenoForPrez@taylorlorenz What percentage of those posts have a reply from Elon that just says "interesting" or "yup"
Jeff Nusser@genoforprez @taylorlorenz concerning
Phil Rees@genoforprez @taylorlorenz In the Before Times I'd have hopped over to Hoaxy to get a handle on that. Not going to pay $5k a month for API access to confirm my gut feelings.
Elon can go TWARC himself.
Ambrosia
WhoMeWorried?@taylorlorenz
At a guess, that's why you are here with us instead of the new free-speech Twitter?
At a guess, that's why you are here with us instead of the new free-speech Twitter?
Beeks@SpikedU235 @taylorlorenz she's still very much a Twitter m̶a̶s̶o̶c̶h̶i̶s̶t̶ addict.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@taylorlorenz Twitter has become a paid propaganda channel with a free chat function.
𝓓 𝓑 𝓒𝓸𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻@taylorlorenz
Filed that one in the “No shit, Sherlock!” cabinet. 👀😎
Filed that one in the “No shit, Sherlock!” cabinet. 👀😎
@taylorlorenz there was never a good reason to bump paid users to the top of the replies, aside from giving bad actors an incentive to pay. So now the site is an unuseable heap of trash.
Donnie, yeah my twitter is on private right now. I supported gun control on what turned out to be a thread being watched by maga veterans.
I am myself a veteran, but they have decided that I must be lying about my service because I support gun control argh.
Place is a cesspool
Brian WooleyWhich is to say, it’s functioning as intended.
sour
artisanroxElno, Zuck, Jack, and spez want their outlets to be disinfo brokers.
WAI. "working as intended".
stilton54@taylorlorenz Of course. This is what you do if you decided to weaponise Twitter for the Right Wing.
Jumping Mouse
bk@taylorlorenz Who could have foreseen this…
Lee 🌏@taylorlorenz
I remember....
Before Elon took over Twitter, it had a "War in Ukraine" section, right at the top of the search and a number of carefully curated stories that gave a broad overview of what was happening.
Now....
Blue tick lies, misinformation, distraction, personal attacks.
I remember....
Before Elon took over Twitter, it had a "War in Ukraine" section, right at the top of the search and a number of carefully curated stories that gave a broad overview of what was happening.
Now....
Blue tick lies, misinformation, distraction, personal attacks.
Ketil Froyn@taylorlorenz I like this better than the ordinary "declined to comment":
> Twitter's press office acknowledged receipt of our enquiry, but declined to comment.
xs4me2It shows Musk´s connections and intentions...
John Panzer
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌@taylorlorenz That's what governments of the free, democratically governed world support by shamefully maintaining a presence on histrionic Musk's for-profit mis- & disinformation network!
Raise your voice to call your government to #LeaveTwitter & join real #SocialMedia!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Freedom #Equality #Community #Unlimited #Unmanipulated #Unintimidated #Unimpressed #SocialMedia #FreeFromTwitter #RottenBird
Jake in the desert@taylorlorenz knew THIS would happen. It's a misinformation echo chamber now.
ocdtrekkie@taylorlorenz Makes sense. Russian troll farms have to consider $8 an incredible bargain compared to spending months building a following organically.
famousringo@taylorlorenz social media is the most effective weapon Russia has ever deployed against the west.
AuthorTOBurnett@taylorlorenz nice of them to identify themselves.
Clairwil@taylorlorenz and yet the con was that paid accounts would not act like bots. As if enemy actors would not pay to spread propaganda. 🙄
RussianDeepStateSock@taylorlorenz oh no, competing propaganda narratives about Ukraine!! What a catastrophe! We have to ensure only the US state department's honest analysis of Ukraine, Russia, NATO, etc is allowed to stand.
I mean people will eventually catch on and realize Ukraine is just America's latest hope for profitable global war, and they will see the parallels between this and every war/action involving the US for the last 60 years and perhaps this will become inconvenient. Perhaps not.
dango🍡
@taylorlorenz "$8/mo to spam users" - best deal on the internet for scammers and other ne'er-do-wells
Steven Bodzin@taylorlorenz meanwhile, BBC News continues to post all its headlines to Twitter and hasn't set up a Mastodon account that I'm aware of. If you want a news feed of the BBC, you need to go into what the BBC itself shows is a cesspool.
News organizations need to take leadership on moving to new platforms.
Jeffery Seow@taylorlorenz i don't look at stuff from paid accounts. i installed an extension (free) in my google chrome browser called eight dollars, and it clearly shows the difference between legacy verified and paid accounts. with that little extension my whole twitter world changed. pity more people are not accessing their twitter with eight dollar enhanced google chrome browser.
valadoms@taylorlorenz we should be careful on the kind of information we soak. You are right.
MrRant@taylorlorenz this doesn’t include all the fascists that magically have appeared in my feed. And only paid ones… 🤔
Daniel Hakimi@taylorlorenz It's kind of like paid advertising, except it gets around advertising laws and some people don't realize that the user paid to reach their eyeballs.
DumpedTrauma@taylorlorenz I'll take "the most predictable outcome" for 500 please Alex
PhilipCharles@taylorlorenz l got off Twitter
Peter Principle@taylorlorenz Technology is changing at an accelerating rate, but one ancient piece of journalistic advice hasn't aged a bit: Follow the money.
miadayburroughs
SamHughes@taylorlorenz And no one saw that coming? Ever since Jack Dorsey developed Twitter, there has not been one piece of factual information shared on that platform...hence why no-mind Elon Musk bought it.
Bryan@taylorlorenz that's why I left. All I see in anyone's replies are their nonsense
Mark Wolfe@taylorlorenz At least it isn't visible without a twitter account now, given elon cut off public indexing of messages... 😂
Helgi Crookehorne@taylorlorenz while BBC themselves have gold, and senators are grey. Blue checkmark just lost its value, unless that's @Partisangirl who was uncredible Assad shill and Iranian and Russian troll since ages... she even attacked Ukraine all the time (one of the tweet looks like "Ukraine ran out of terrorist foreign fighters, had to reuse old stock."). And there was @sahouraxo who resembles a portable Hezbollah training camp that blocks most Twitter for being kuffar and zionistas
LambdaDuck@taylorlorenz In other blue-related news: the sky is blue, more at 11
Thái Vinh@taylorlorenz Can buy Twitter blue now so it's not really reliable
Landrin201@taylorlorenz literally everyone saw this coming. It was an integral step in making Twitter a useless platform full of nazis.