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KarynDoc Nov 20, 2023

Derek Powazek 🐐

Elon routinely interacted with and retweeted nazis on Twitter long before he bought it. After, he fired the content safety staff and courted nazis who had been banned and put them back on the site. Earlier this year he started PAYING THEM to keep posting.

It's nice that people are noticing his nazi shit now, but it's a journalistic malpractice that it's taken this long and most omit this history.

This WaPo story is the exception: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/19/antisemiticism-internet-elon-musk-israel-war/

Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it.

Antisemitism has long festered on the internet, but the Israel-Gaza war and the loosening of content moderation on X have propelled it to unprecedented levels.

The Washington Post

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

Archive link: https://archive.ph/g1LDR

Sebastian Hahn Nov 20, 2023

@fraying The moment Elon bought Twitter, I was off the platform. Couldn’t have made a better decision.

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

@sebastianhahn Yup. It died the moment they sold it.

katch wreck Nov 20, 2023

@fraying my guess is the new investors want it to be rearchitected as a culture war promotion tool, and these antics are part of fulfilling that mandate

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

@katchwreck who cares what they want. I just want it to die.

katch wreck Nov 20, 2023

@fraying now that they see it working as intended, as long as powerful people see it as a tool for waging their political warfare, they will keep pumping money into it to keep it alive, is my guess. polarization is part of their strategy

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

@katchwreck again, who cares? It does us no good to cast our minds into the motivations of sociopaths.

katch wreck Nov 20, 2023

@fraying well, you posted about it abd said you want it to die, so it seems to me like you care :-P the point of my hypothesis was to predict that it will not die simply because of lost ad revenues

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

@katchwreck don’t need to divine their intentions to know it needs to die.

katch wreck Nov 20, 2023

@fraying perhaps it's not necessary, but understanding can be useful in controlling an outcome. was worried you thought it might die soon on it's own, thought it might help to consider a less optimistic timescale in order to avoid unreasonable expectations! remember when it was an SMS microblogging service? seems like there's not much left of its original form... a full metamorphosis that could be worthy of study as a historical case of how monetization efforts lead to undesirable ends

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

@katchwreck but it has nothing to do with any of that. And it will never be free again. It’s already dead.

Rabbi Nathan Farb Nov 20, 2023

@fraying there is a reason why, as a responsible Jewish community leader, I permanently deleted my twitter account a year ago. Twitter was never a safe space for Jews (or most other minorities), but after Elon, the "occasional" moderation seemed to vanish entirely.

Rabbi Nathan Farb Nov 22, 2023

I'm proud to say that more and more Jewish leaders are leaving that awful platform. I've been a part of numerous private discussions among Rabbis who are still there looking to make their exit.

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 23, 2023

@rabbinathan leaders lead!

Jeffrey Fisher Nov 20, 2023

@fraying American History X, indeed. :-(

wasabi brain Nov 20, 2023

@fraying wild that guys like bill ackman, knowing all that, were embarrassing in their praise of musk while putting all their power behind making college students unhireable

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

@virtualinanity Billionaire brain rot.

Marie 🇸🇪Nov 20, 2023

@fraying I checked in on X & did some scrolling. There’s people I follow that I find interesting, constructive, knowledgeable but w solid opinions. When looking at the comments I get really scared & worried. I imagine that all the hateful comments can be perceived as that’s how most people feel & think. X is flooded with unbelievable comments & it seems as those accounts are growing. I don't know but I think this just going to hurts us all long term. It’s a very unhealthy place.

lupus_blackfur Nov 20, 2023

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Yes, Elonivsky Muskovite has always been what you see now...

He's just made the same mistake as Drumpf, he's now in a bigger public spotlight than before and more folks are seeing who he truly is.

zilla Nov 20, 2023

@fraying He did not become an antisemitic guy now, he probably always was.

GaiaWinds Life Coach Nov 20, 2023

@fraying I support anyone who is for truth and free speech. Unfortunately, truth hurts.

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

@GaiaWinds Go fuck yourself.

@fraying
Exactly. We all saw it. It's almost like the news companies are owned by people not wanting this to come out 👀👀
@mookie

Joe Ortiz Nov 20, 2023

@fraying You and I know why it took so long to report what it was so obvious: because owners of most US media (going to use Bezos at the Washington Post as a prime example in this case), have the ultimate final say on what gets published and that's a major problem facing most of US media today.

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

@joeo10 Sorry, no, I don't actually think that. I've worked at newspapers and that's just not the case.

I think it's because people don't listen to Jews when we call out antisemitism, and that many people were so invested in the "brilliant man" narrative around Elon that they didn't want to admit that he was actually just a bigoted idiot manchild because admitting that means admitting they'd been fooled for years.

Joe Ortiz Nov 20, 2023

@fraying Sadly, I don't trust most US media to get it right especially since the 2016 election.

As for Eoln (which I'll call him), people are still addicted to him and still posting at the deadbird site (especially some people that I once interacted/respected) so some I do agree with you here and the fact is most people just don't care. A sad state of affairs really that they just can't go anywhere else more safer and more inclusive.

Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

@joeo10 Oh I don't trust them to get it right, either, just not because they're clearing everything with the CEO, more because journalism is imperfect and there are a lot of unacknowledged influences.

As for the deadbird site, it's already dead. The end just isn't evenly distributed yet.

Joe Ortiz May 26, 2024

@fraying A bit of a update here: looks to me I was right all along about billionaires like Jeff Bezos have ultimate final says on which stories get published (from @chrisgeidner)

https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

Washington Post bombshell: Washington Post buried Alito flag story for three years

Saturday's report raises many questions, several relating to the fact that the Post, at least passively, made the decision not to reveal this news many times since 2021.

Law Dork

Joe Ortiz May 26, 2024

@fraying "In a series of paragraphs that are up there as being among the most shocking I have read in my journalistic career, the Post acknowledged on Saturday — dropped in the middle of the holiday weekend, more than a week after the Times’s report — that they had known about the flag since at least January 20, 2021, and had not revealed knowledge of it until May 25, 2024." - @chrisgeidner
https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

Washington Post bombshell: Washington Post buried Alito flag story for three years

Saturday's report raises many questions, several relating to the fact that the Post, at least passively, made the decision not to reveal this news many times since 2021.

Law Dork

Bridget Nov 20, 2023

@fraying exactly, the delay is ridiculous, everyone who continued to support him is scum