At least he is honest about who he / the platform supports, not some shady algorithm pending to one side, or some tv channel being left while another is right lol
It’s definitely amplified to pretend that any existing story is a “real story” or to just pad a slow news day.
You can just say “Twitter users are saying” and suddenly something sounds important. No need to clarify that it’s just a few dozen people, and by “people” it’s just Twitter accounts many of which are bots.
The sooner Twitter implodes the better off we all are. Sure I’d like folks to move to Mastodon, but really I don’t care where they go. Bluesky or Threads is fine. Some new hotness/flavor of the week is fine. But Twitter is a lost cause. It’s speeding towards failure since Musk took over but he just accelerated its eventual fate.
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Clumsily, and in a way that harms revenue.
No shit, but then even Obama used Twitter to win the elections. What’s new?
The owner of the platform blatantly and openly supporting one side is new. We used to call that election interference
Is it new? Every publisher and platform seems to openly support one side or another.
if only there was an article or something that answered this question.
At least he is honest about who he / the platform supports, not some shady algorithm pending to one side, or some tv channel being left while another is right lol
No, he’s doing both. He’s both open about his love for authoritarians AND uses shady algorithms to promote Nazi bullshit.
By using his butthole. Saved you a click there 🫠🙏✨
It’s crazy that Twitter has such an outsized influence on the public, and I think it’s because news outlets amplify it so much.
It doesn’t have that many active users. And news rarely covers other platforms when something makes a lot of noise and reaches many eyeballs.
News should cover Lemmy!
It’s definitely amplified to pretend that any existing story is a “real story” or to just pad a slow news day.
You can just say “Twitter users are saying” and suddenly something sounds important. No need to clarify that it’s just a few dozen people, and by “people” it’s just Twitter accounts many of which are bots.
The sooner Twitter implodes the better off we all are. Sure I’d like folks to move to Mastodon, but really I don’t care where they go. Bluesky or Threads is fine. Some new hotness/flavor of the week is fine. But Twitter is a lost cause. It’s speeding towards failure since Musk took over but he just accelerated its eventual fate.
How about we ignore him? Both of them?
As if Jack Dorsey didn’t try to influence with twitter.