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Remember when Musk’s entire cause celebre was to expose the bot networks and paid trolls on Twitter and then he dropped all of that bluster when he realized how
by mikeyouse 11mo ago
Remember when Musk’s entire cause celebre was to expose the bot networks and paid trolls on Twitter and then he dropped all of that bluster when he realized how useful they’d be to his political goals?
- phantasmish 11mo agoThey’re probably also such a large part of the active Twitter “user base” that substantially reigning them in would be enough to put the product into a permanent, sharp decline.
- neuralkoi 11mo agoThis also was an individual who was getting very little sleep, taking an unknown assortment of hallucinogenic psychotropics, who clearly got drunk off his own success and the attention he got, possibly psyop'd by multiple governments due to his reach and influence. It's kind of tragic. He reminds me of Smeagol from Lord of the Rings. People lacking any virtue (like wisdom, compassion, or courage) are extremely vulnerable to external dark forces.
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- jpadkins 11mo agoThen why is he allowing it to be exposed right now? If actually useful to his political goals, he would suppress the launch of the location feature, right?
- jjk166 11mo agoIf your bot farm happens to be domestic, exposing all the foreign bot-farms competing for the same audience seems like a no brainer.
- _whiteCaps_ 11mo agoHaven't they turned the feature off again already? (I don't have a twitter account, so I can't check)
- mikeyouse 11mo agoIt was useful to his political goals back in 2023/2024 when he was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get Trump elected - it seems like he doesn’t think they’re still useful today.