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Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....

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How does he know how many of the bots are voting with him? How does he know that a 100% human vote wouldn't be worse for him?
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Deep in his heart, he's just a conspiracy theorist. His first major tweet as owner was spreading Paul Pelosi lies. As Puppycow's post above points out, the bot theory falls apart under the simplest scrutiny, but Elon isn't smart, so he doesn't even bother with that miniscule level of skepticism.
 
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Split a load of non-Twitter stuff to their own thread, whilst stock price of Tesla may play into Twitter's future, general discussion of Tesla, SpaceX and electric cars are off-topic for this thread.
Replying to this modbox in thread will be off topic  Posted By: Darat
 
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December 23rd:

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-twitter-to-remove-suicide-prevention-feature

... Twitter has removed a feature in the past few days that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, according to two people familiar with the matter, who said it was ordered by new owner Elon Musk. ...​

December 24th

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/24/elon-musk-twitter-feature-removal-reports

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Twitter has restored a feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from users and consumer safety groups.

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Reuters said on Friday the feature had been taken down this week. Citing two people familiar with the matter, the report said the removal was ordered by the social media platform’s owner, Elon Musk.

After publication of the story, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, confirmed the removal but said it was temporary.

“We have been fixing and revamping our prompts. They were just temporarily removed while we do that,” Irwin said in an email to Reuters.

Musk then denied the feature had been removed, and called the Reuters report “fake news”. ...​

So it was "fake news" - even though Twitter's head of trust and safety said it had been removed. He's really trying to rebuild trust in Twitter...
 
There is an old rusty van parked by the side of the road in my town with the following painted on both sides: Trump, Promises Kept. That is how we build trust in this country. We gaslight the **** out of anyone who is willing to read what we write.

Elon is just applying that lesson.
 
And then there's the bit where he amplified Dmitry Medvedev's insane stream-of-consciousness predictions thread, which amongst other things included that Ol' Musky would soon be President of the US.
 
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And then there's the bit where he amplified Dmitry Medvedev's insane stream-of-consciousness predictions thread, which amongst other things included that Ol' Musky would soon be President of the US.
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That's after the civil war between California and Texas, of course. Don't skip the best part!
 
Twitter has had extremely spotty connection over the last two hours. On December 24, Musk bragged that he had unplugged some random server rack and that the site continued to function, apparently in some foolish attempt to prove that there's too much useless hardware clogging up the system.
 
Just for the yuks!

Hacker issues warning to Elon Musk after putting 40 crore Twitter users' data on sale

A threat actor is claiming to have obtained the personal data of 40 crore Twitter users and is attempting to sell it. The actor shared information about the breach on a website and has even issued a warning to Twitter and Elon Musk.
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The malicious actor has asked*Elon Musk to either retrieve all the data put on sale by purchasing the entire stack of information or risk a fine of $276 million. He also warned Musk that if the data of the celebrities is leaked, they will not be able to trust Twitter again and "ruin your dream of twitter video sharing platform for content creators."
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We wait with anticipation.
 
Sorry Republican Party, as much as Elmo meets your requirements, he can't run for President. Thank frickin gawd.
 
Birds of a feather and all that....

"Controversial" social media personality Andrew Tate has been arrested in Romania for human trafficking:

Controversial online influencer Andrew Tate has been detained in Romania as part of a human trafficking and rape investigation.
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"The four suspects ... appear to have created an organised crime group with the purpose of recruiting, housing and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content meant to be seen on specialised websites for a cost," prosecutors said, according to the Reuters news agency.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64122628

Andrew Tate was suspended from Twitter for claiming that women bear responsibility for being sexually assaulted. Elon Musk has recently reinstated his account. I'm sure that Twitter's advertisers are jumping at the opportunity to be associated with this kind of individual. :rolleyes:
 
The Don said:
Birds of a feather and all that....

"Controversial" social media personality Andrew Tate has been arrested in Romania for human trafficking:





https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64122628

Andrew Tate was suspended from Twitter for claiming that women bear responsibility for being sexually assaulted. Elon Musk has recently reinstated his account. I'm sure that Twitter's advertisers are jumping at the opportunity to be associated with this kind of individual. :rolleyes:
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And of course it is made worse for Twitter because every report is mentioning his banning and then unbanning from Twitter. Even if he is not charged and not prosecuted and is totally innocent he's a sufficiently vile person that this furthers the idea that Twitter allows horrible content.
 
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