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by benlumen 6y ago
I agree - the system gamifies conversation and literally rewards saying the popular thing with points. That's great for funny comments on memes, but it's not ideal for politics. Obviously, we're doing it here right now, which
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I'm not suggesting they had a choice - I believe they had to do it to survive. But there is now a void for the objective journalism of old. It's why I'm excited about the resurgence of the newsletter model - if journalists do
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In my opinion, once-objective mainstream journalism is now about writing content to please target audiences and catch trending topics on social media, as well as keep fast cycles going to appease the algorithms on news aggregation sites and
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“Jews” was trending for hours yesterday with top results displaying anti-Semitic tweets. Just saying.
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It doesn’t make sense that they’d let it go on like that and play whack-a-mole with the tweets for hours. I don’t buy it.
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It doesn’t make sense that they could tweet from people’s accounts and get away with it for hours from a moderation panel like that. I don’t buy it.
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Many people were searching the wallet address looking for accounts being hit, so these people did this to show up in that search.
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Wow, I remember that. Amazing. Think how many more people would see that sort of tweet today.
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Maybe that's the plan.
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I think his bio always said #bitcoin. He owns the cash app.
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Very loudly indeed. Think message sent or stocks shorted.
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Data theft like that is normally silently dumped after the breach occurs and anyone knows what happened. This looks more like data injection somewhere. Perhaps an old API exploit. You used to be able to send an SMS to tweet, for example.
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https://twitter.com/brandontwall/status/1283525485440503811 Hours in, seems the vulnerability was not yet patched but simply blue-checks had posting rights pulled. Only non-verified accounts have been posting the
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You say they'd target POTUS but of the very high profile accounts it's so far billionaires, corporations and democrat politicians. Does make you wonder.
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Totally agree, backend - Musk's tweets being deleted and popping up again before our eyes was a dead giveaway. It could be SQL injection writing tweets directly to the database for all we know. I agree with everyone else saying the sit
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Something I don't see many people talking about is how Openreach, the UK's main physical layer broadband provider, uses Huawei kit in the majority of its street cabinets and has done since FTTC VDSL was rolled out a decade ago. 5G
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It's the same story across journalism and I wrote about this exact phenomenon in the article I submitted yesterday - journalism had to please the social media, news aggregator and SEO algorithms to stay alive. They write and say what&#
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This has changed a lot. Back in the HDD-powered iPod days you could drop and crash the hard drive (as in the drive would physically crash and break, for you kids)... and they'd still repair or replace it for free.
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Politicians and journalists alike use it to gain influence. Which would be fine in and of itself. But they absolutely do pay too much attention to it. My problem is how many of them then mistake the screaming extremists in the comment threa
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Thank God I Never Went into Journalism(benlumen.substack.com)
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