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Wow what an unfavorable summary of events. Perhaps I can offer a rebuttal since they didn’t bother to ask for one in the article? > Musk has "continued his ra
by bilsbie 4y ago
Wow what an unfavorable summary of events.
Perhaps I can offer a rebuttal since they didn’t bother to ask for one in the article?
> Musk has "continued his rash of brand unsafe actions —
That free speech is murder - that many will die if we have just one social media platform not controlled by liberal journalists and academics - is inherently laughable.
That they refuse to quote anyone disagreeing with this inanity shows their real function: not journalism.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1596527482471354368 https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/159652748247135...
> including amplifying conspiracy theories
Maybe?
> unilaterally reinstating banned accounts such as that of former President Donald Trump
Is Taking a vote across millions of twitter users considered unilaterally”?
> courting and engaging with far-right accounts
Isn’t that the best way to share viewpoints and find common ground? Seems like it would be worse not to engage people with mistaken beliefs.
> and instituting a haphazard verification scheme that allowed extremists and scammers to purchase a blue check.
Haphazard seems like an opinion. A more charitable view is that things will break when making major fixes. And they’ve already owned up to the mistake, paused the feature and are releasing a version 2 soon.
- andsoitis 4y ago> That they refuse to quote anyone disagreeing “They” (presumably the journalists at NPR) are reporting what an advertising group are saying. If you have a beef I think it should be with advertisers who said those things don’t you think?