The ongoing X and Elon Musk Transgressions Thread

[PeteMoss]

I do wonder when/if they will adapt to the annual release sequence of other car manufacturers. Its going to be a tough sell when you can get a 2024 Ford/Hyundai Whatever vs a Tesla that hasn't changed since 2021.

[Fuzz]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1628124863826169881

These are my favourite narcissistic replies. "Musk University"(Whatever the #### that is) tweets a direct quote from Elon, and then Elon replies to the tweet in some affirmative way. He does this every few weeks. it's kinda like thanking your own post, if that were a thing you could do around these parts.

[Yoho]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1630312274450853889

[Barnet Flame]

Oh

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by Yoho

https://twitter.com/user/status/1630312274450853889

They might as well just said Musk retakes spot as the world's richest racist.

[photon]

Musk's support of Scott Adams saying that white people should avoid black people pushed him back into #1.

[Fuzz]

Misinformation superspreaders are thriving on Musk-owned Twitter

1. A study of 490 “misinformation superspreaders” (here defined as accounts that have repeatedly published popular tweets linking to known misinformation) shows that their collective popularity has significantly grown (on average, +42% interactions per tweet) since Elon Musk took effective control of the platform on 27 October 2022.

Accounts from established and credible media organizations have not benefited from a similar increase (-6% in the average number of interactions per tweet), suggesting an empowerment specific to sharers of misinformation.
2. This increase in influence is not universal: 58.2% of misinformation superspreaders have seen their average tweet gather more influence, with the remaining 41.8% seeing their average tweet’s impact decrease.

However, even among superspreaders, not all accounts are equally influential. The accounts that have grown since 27 October had on average higher engagement than those whose influence has decreased.

3. Four out of the five accounts that have gained the most influence have received replies from Elon Musk’s personal account to at least one of their top ten tweets. It is most likely that these tweets went viral because of Elon Musk’s decision to reply and bring them to the attention of his 128 million followers, pointing to a direct responsibility of Twitter’s new owner in the growth of misinformation superspreaders’ popularity.

4. These results appear to run afoul of Twitter’s commitments as a signatory of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation, particularly those related to “take action on webpages or actors that persistently violate policies […] to limit the spread of harmful false or misleading information”, which could have regulatory consequences once the Digital Services Act comes into force in a few months.

https://healthfeedback.org/misinform...owned-twitter/


In a shocking surprise, Musk found to have made misinformation worse. It's OK though, citizen journalists will certainly set this straight.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

This seems.........not great for Elon.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1631933776107274242

[Major Major]

Funny how he is the world's richest person and the world's biggest loser simultaneously.

[D as in David]

Kind of like when Trump was President, he was the most powerful man on Earth and it's biggest victim.

[MoneyGuy]

Trump is still the biggest victim. Just ask him.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Major Major

Funny how he is the world's richest person and the world's biggest loser simultaneously.

I wouldn't call him a loser. He's clearly winning at life. He's right up there with Trump and the world's biggest narcissists for sure.

[Ozy_Flame]

Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.

Exclusive academic data plus testimony from Twitter users backs up their allegations, suggesting hate is thriving under Mr Musk's leadership, with trolls emboldened, harassment intensifying and a spike in accounts following misogynistic and abusive profiles.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1632551076229521412

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.

Exclusive academic data plus testimony from Twitter users backs up their allegations, suggesting hate is thriving under Mr Musk's leadership, with trolls emboldened, harassment intensifying and a spike in accounts following misogynistic and abusive profiles.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1632551076229521412

So it's likely going exactly as Musk planned, as he's happily rolling in that slime.

[KelVarnsen]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I wouldn't call him a loser. He's clearly winning at life. He's right up there with Trump and the world's biggest narcissists for sure.

Nah. He is a loser.

[MoneyGuy]

All kind of problems over at Twitter today. Some people can’t tweet or reply, some unable to tweet images…. Many left-wingers are being flooded with MAGA content. I wonder how much Musk regrets wasting his money. It’d be like buying a 100,000 car only to have it fall apart.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.

Exclusive academic data plus testimony from Twitter users backs up their allegations, suggesting hate is thriving under Mr Musk's leadership, with trolls emboldened, harassment intensifying and a spike in accounts following misogynistic and abusive profiles.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1632551076229521412

I’m young enough to remember when Elon took over and all the psychotic grifters were saying “wow, so much less child porn on my feed now! Elon is the best!” and even people here unironically posting those tweets saying “Must be good, the random people searching out child porn on Twitter, who we should trust as experts on child porn, aren’t seeing as much of the child porn they’re looking for on Twitter.”

Needless to say, it is a complete surprise that things like child sexual exploitation have gotten worse, and that the random grifters who admitted to looking at a lot of child porn on Twitter were not… in fact… being honest about how much child porn they were looking at.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

All kind of problems over at Twitter today. Some people can’t tweet or reply, some unable to tweet images…. Many left-wingers are being flooded with MAGA content. I wonder how much Musk regrets wasting his money. It’d be like buying a 100,000 car only to purposely drive it off a cliff h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶f̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶a̶p̶a̶r̶t̶.

Fixed that for you.

[Fuzz]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1632810081497513993

"I can't understand why the code is so brittle" says the guy who fired everyone who knew how it worked. Complete rewrite? Sounds great. Do your employees have to bring their own sleeping bags in, our do you provide them?

[TorqueDog]

Everything this guy says just demonstrates how little he knows about software engineering and how completely unfit he is to have any say in development.