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

With the change from Twitter url to 'X', I have lost my history/recommendations of search words!

As i am in here, might as well post this as a followup to a conversation in the government thread.

76 million to scam you on X, using celebrities

In recent months, X (formerly Twitter) has been flooded with ads using the image of public figures and media outlets. These redirect to web pages that offer false investments in cryptocurrencies where they steal personal data from users or encourage them to make a first investment.

Michael Martin's beef with Social Media is his image was used in that as well. @jmcc

Their own summary emails call it that still.

I still call eir the pnt.

'Semitic' is a dodgy, now redundant 80 year old linguistic analytical term. It's only use now is by hysterical zionists to convey how offended they are when it's pointed out they are committing genocide.

FF also tried to use Social Media to promote its candidate in the Dublin Bay South bye-election. FF's "Deirdre Of The Sorrows" SM campaign is memorable for all the wrong reasons. I think that a lot of old school politicians like Martin hate Social Media because people can talk to other people without the interruption of RTE or the media. That means that the usual gatekeepers and dictators of public opinion are largely eliminated.

Social Media represents a loss of control for these politicians and they hate that. Musk's purchase of Twitter/X and the removal of a lot of the Left-leaning content moderation types has upset a lot of people. It has also made it more advertising driven and scammers will take advantage of any opportunity. Previously, some of these zelebrity "endorsement" scams were on Facebook and other websites.

Regards…jmcc

Bullshit

Hatred of Jews is still very much a thing, whatever you call it, and a race of people are not responsible for the actions of a government.

The mainstream media no longer use tweets or what’s trending on Twitter as a barometer for stories. And arguments/flame wars between journos, politicians, celebrities etc. won’t be the basis of articles either anymore. Thank God. I doubt we’d ever see the same with discord, mastodon etc.

Musk thought he could recreate 4chan on Twitter and it would automatically get the same coverage that Twitter did. ‘Libtards’ would be getting ‘owned’ everyday the world would be set right, according to his views anyway. Bit of a miscalculation.

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Musk has zero regard for free speech and anyone who posts that hasnt been following the thread and the numerous documented examples of Musk using Twitter to silence and ghost people and accounts who are on opposite side ideologically to him.

To wave that away as a 'very different attitude' is a blatant deception. Yeah the difference is he is a fascist racist bully who makes the rules up as he goes along.

Hold on a second there.

You're gone from a "very different attitude" to free speech to "his business, his rules".

You are contradicting yourself from post to post. Just as Musk's actions contradict the nonsense he spouts about free speech which seem to have duped people who should know better and make a mockery of them.

It's not about satisfying everyone, it is about using his platform as a bully pedestal, all the while lying about doing so out of some regard for free speech. He doesn't and don't pretend otherwise. It is just a lie he comes out with as cover for the racist, fascist crap he peddles.

It might appear as a contradiction but it is not. He has a different attitude to free speech than the previous management and it is generally more free speech orientated. The previous management seemed to focus more on the "right" to be offended and keeping users, and former employees, in a perpetual child-like state where no opposing view would breach the barrier of their filter bubbles.

It is still his business and he can and does act personally. It is also a very different Twitter/X to the old version. The upcoming US presidential camapaigns and election are going to cause some fireworks and X management will be hoping to monetise the outrage from all sides. In simpler terms, Musk and X are probably hoping to monetise the demand of users to be offended, those users tweeting about being offended and others disagreeing. Disagreement, rather than agreement, generates traffic and advertising for X.

Regards…jmcc

Free speech absolutist who bans journalists en masse.

"it is generally more free speech orientated. "

Just absolute ignorant nonsense.

This is crap.

Twitter is dying on its arse.

You could always start your own social media service for like-minded people. Setting up a Mastodon node is quite cheap. The problems, naturally, are funding it and getting users.

X already has a critical mass of users and the switching cost of someone moving to another social networking service like Mastondon is worse than a simple subscription switch because people have built up networks of followers and people whom they follow. If they don't switch too then the value of that new social network is not so high for that person who wants to switch. X will lose some users but it will also gain users. As this is a presidential election year in the US, it is likely to gain users. All social networking services are going to be competing for a slice of that traffic.

Regards…jmcc

That will continue to upset people who think that they know better than Musk and his investors.

Musk knew better than Musk and his investors if his legal fight to get out of the deal was anything to go by. His instinct was correct seeing as Twitter has lost the bulk of its value (71% by Jan-2024).