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Elon Musk Is Officially Purchasing Twitter for $44 Billion
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I think the validity of content should be left to the reader with an emphasis (if any) placed on citing proper sources.
Using Covid as an example, social media removed some content as misinformation. Some of that content we later learned was not misinformation at all. Mind you, I am not picking a side on this. Covid is an evolving and fluid situation we are still dealing with. The facts we know today are vastly different than the facts we knew near the start of the pandemic. In the same way the facts we know 20 years down the road will signficantly outweigh the facts we know today.
Please. Communist China, Iran, Hamas, all have Twitter accounts. This "I'm concerned" stuff is all fake.
Man a certain group is going to absolutely lose their minds over this lol.
That sounds good in isolation and at "normal human speed"
It's really complicated, really quickly, with something like Twitter.
Within seconds, large accounts can blast out total BS out to millions of users and algorithms begin reacting immediately.
Your points are great, but it's so messy when it's a tech situation at scale.
I really believe that a vast majority of folks, understandably, don't quite grok how hard this stuff is at the speed and scale of worldwide interconnected tech.
Conservatives more susceptible to believing falsehoods
Conservatives are less able to distinguish political truths from falsehoods than liberals, mainly because of a glut of right-leaning misinformation, a new national study conducted over six months shows.Researchers found that liberals and conservatives in the United States both tended to believe...
Worth a read.
You mean we should just leave it up to The New York Times or CNN?
Steele dossier, Covington Catholic, Jussie, Hunter's laptop, and on and on... 'shared' with zillions of people, right?
We should allow people to challenge these narratives, present facts, make the case, and let the true facts fall into place. Instead, we have people silenced because 'the really smart people' already have it figured out. We are 2.5 years into a pandemic and we have no real understanding of how it was started because nobody is allowed to discuss it. That's pathetic.
Exactly.
I often hear "they're trying to censor conservatives!"
So my question is... "then why do I keep hearing them?!?!?"
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Yeah the minute he bans someone it’s going to show his massive hypocrisy.
Huge fan of Elon and what he’s been able to accomplish over the last three years.
Although I don’t have any social media/Twitter accounts, I’m curious to see where this leads.
Although I don’t have any social media/Twitter accounts, I’m curious to see where this leads.
I’m still trying to figure out how important Twitter actually is. According to its users, it’s the single most important communications medium the world has ever known, but if you poll any group of people on the street, most will tell you they don’t use it. So, is it actually important, or is it just a bunch of self-important wannabes pretending their part of engaged in some great, modern world wonder? It seems more and more to just be a handful of people in an echo chamber hyping each other up and screaming at the rest of us to take them seriously.
And make no mistake -- it's not an "if", but a "when"
Leopards don't change their spots to the degree that would be needed here..
I have a few friends who don't use it at all
They are often so out of the loop on stuff also
That can be good, but it can also be bad (depends upon the subject and situation)
Just "checking out" on what's going on is sort of a bummer for voting members of society.
A car company. A drilling company. A rocket ship company. And now, a social media company. You check the stock of Tesla lately?
Ask yourself this why is the liberal media so outraged. Is it because they really want to help the oppressed or is it because they are losing their grip on power. To me identity Politics has always been about dividing us. George Orwell called it. The left would use propaganda and tech to gain power. We either have freedom of speech or we don't. There is no in-between.
Trump will not return to Twitter even as Elon Musk purchases platform, will begin using his own TRUTH Social
EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump told Fox News that he will not return to Twitter, even if Elon Musk purchases the social media company and reinstates his account, and instead, will use his own TRUTH Social as the sole platform for his voice.
Can you provide context to what being in the loop means? How many weeks old can news be before you are considered out of the loop?
Are conservatives as outraged by Desantis actually breaking the first amendment in Florida as they are by twitter not actually violating the first amendment?