So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

No, we don't apply this rule in real life, we shouldn't apply it to social media either. If we were to live by this rule, first thing that will need to go is religions.

Seriously, its gone long past throwing a few insults at people with "limited intellectual liability" and calling them gullible eejits.

We've had Donald Trump and Brexit, which lies and disinformation played a big part in.

How we root out all the lies and disinfo is a whole other thing, but it has long gone past people with limited intellectual ability getting sold bridges.

But anyway, the point is moot on a thread about Elon, because he'll do f*ck all about it anyway. The only hope is he keeps doing what he is doing and Twitter becomes irrelevant and eventually bust.

Also worth noting, that Elon is himself a prominent spreader of conspiracy theories. At rate he's going, he's not that far off from the point of Henry Ford's more nasty ones. Frequently eggs on the likes of Andy Ngo. Recently enough claimed a spree shooter was a psyop. Got a user unsuspended for sharing CSA content because he politically aligns with that user's conspiracy theories.

If Musk wants to keep operating in places like the EU and California, as per their incoming legislation, he'll have to do something about it. I could see him just cutting the EU loose from TwitterX but not California.

Meanwhile Musk who seems to believe half the disinformation must be "not the brightest" in terms of discerning fact from fiction, ya?

Its projection as it always is, they are just admitting to what they would do in such a position and assuming everyone else would do the same.

Yes, and that's actually an argument against having this fact checking team - not even Musk knows everything, so maybe we should leave it alone and trust people to make their own decisions.

One of the fathers of the victims of Sandy Hook really got into, getting his own back at Jones and his followers. This guy had to move home dozens of times because of doxing and all that. Even got to the stage that he walked into a random bar, got into a conversation with some nut, and yer man shows him a photo of his son and says "he's a false actor". He goes, "that's my son you are talking about". He has made it his mission to get back at these crowds.

Put it this way, they don't take to kindly to it when the same is done to them.

I would also add, re: misinformation. Advertising standards are common in many jurisdictions re: claims you can make for products, especially food, medicines, cosmetics etc.

But apparently, you could pay shills on social media to spread any kinda claims you want about the products, and then bots to bump their viewiership, and that's ok in the TwitterX world Musk and his defenders want.

Does it though? Musk just falls for claptrap, there's reputable groups that have handled fact checking effectively. Eg staff certification from the likes of Poynter are used by the likes of Facebook. So we do have clear approaches to effectively investigate potentially spurious claims.

And in the case of leaving off people pushing conspiracies about the families of murdered children. That's just pretty nasty. I've had a family member die in recent months where people publicly attributed their death to vaccines.... And that was pretty horrible in own right. But sure all good.

His meme game must be off the charts on there!

He is an American citizen