Fuck Musk, Fuck "X" - Blåhaj Lemmy

What is he talking about?
Twitter is riddled with MAGA bots. Like AI generated accounts who spam pro-Trump content.
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?q [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 young 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.
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.

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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.
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

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

I finally deleted my account. Had since 2007…it’s not useful anymore.

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

Going from X account…

To ex account.

It’s not interference. That’s your problem Mr Kraut .
Murdoch and Bozos didn’t offer a $1m-a-day lottery to voters.
The vote buying is not the topic being discussed .
You mean interfering with a fair election process by paying voters to choose a specific candidate is not interference?

He’s talking about X for fuck sake.

I hear your point but stay on the fucking topic . Jfk

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
I’m sure Trump will get his DOJ right on it.

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.

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.

From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

snopes.com/…/thomas-jefferson-tree-of-liberty/

Did Thomas Jefferson Really Say This About Violent Rebellion?

A famous quote from Thomas Jefferson has been shared in support of several different opinions.

Snopes
before? where have you been this whole time?
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.

So the only reason to go there is because people are going there, but if people stop going there, then there is no reason to go there, so really there isn’t any reason to go at all.

Unless you’re a sheep.

that’s not how it works. think how multiplayer games work. it doesn’t matter if a multiplayer game is good if no one’s playing. but if a game people have been playing starts to deteriorate, they usually stick to it because they have invested time and accrued some in game currency or rank and they don’t want to start over on a new game that may or may not be successful.
Ah, that explains why Myspace is still huge.

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.

But muh TikTok!!!

And also: it’s racist to ban social media platforms…or whatever…I don’t know. Whatever garbage is usually spewed anytime a platform that leans heavily left is about to get shut down.

It would be, if those same billionaire owners didn’t pull the politician’s puppet strings.

Then maybe don’t use Twitter?

Don’t even complain about Twitter on Twitter.

what woild 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

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.

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.

It’s been a firehose of propaganda for weeks.
It really has been. So while I’m disappointed at the results, there is a relief that at least this part is over. And now we are in the eye of the storm.
Same on Lemmy to be fair.
As it was the same on Reddit last cycle

Half of Lemmy.ml mysteriously disappeared too

Source: it did not I made that up.

Don’t give me hope
You should be showing your source.
Well the election ended so there’s nothing to argue about right now
I’m still there. Still hating the yanks
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 to the investigation. It’s a cesspool, and no investigation is going to fix that.
My pet theory is that Musk acquired Twitter to destroy one of the most effective platforms for anyone on the left to organize.
And/or weaponize it for his buddies to do so instead…

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 and starts awarding Tesla and SpaceX all kinds of gravy grift, you will know your pet theory is 100% spot on.

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.

You’re belittling and attacking the thousands of engineers and scientists who really built SpaceX, because their financier is a fascist sociopath. If you knew anything about this at all, you’d understand how exceptionally ignorant, naive, and disrespectful this is.