Post

I'm having a hard time reading arguments against the nazi microblogging website that are all links to the nazi newsletter website.

@lebassett.bsky.social has it in her article, but it is not sourced, and some have raised questions about it.

Remarkably so, Anuj!

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the obvious answer is that the algorithm has been carefully tuned for subtlety, not whacking people over the head with insane takes and driving them away, but instead easing them in to a right wing world view before immersing them fully in the cesspool.

Their priority to preserve the veracity of their story and their ideologies was more important than the priority to be led by evidence. That is why you have dissenting views by Holtz-Eakins and Wallison. The commission failed because it could not get agreement.

The only way X will be de-Elon'd is by first removing him from any position where he has any influence over X

cc John Fucking Gruber

We are in charge. I got out of X in 2016

A middle-aged white cis man thinks X is “remarkably inclusive and friendly”; at least three factors might lead him to conclude that, the fact that he’s apparently OK with hanging out at the Nazi bar with a CSAM generator notwithstanding.

yeah well

Babies and Reggie

X is good now is definitely organic not an organized campaign like everything else on there

Or the Hunter Biden laptop nothingburger. it flopped so hard the story didn't even make it off the Internet.

The uncensored freedom of speech platform, everyone

@mcmegan.bsky.social still think X is the appropriate town square?

the perpetual smirk…

I read Gruber's post, went to Xitter, read the first trending topic, "James Talarico". A cesspool. Full of lies, slurs (did you know Talarico is gay, trans, and dying of AIDs and/or drugs?). It's a disinformation engine. If one doesn't see it every day, it's because Musk doesn't need it every day.

🙄

You're wrong there. Twitter is profitable, but not from the social media side. It's profitable because he's selling access to all of twitter to data centers to use to train their AI.

Musk didn’t fire the trust & safety teams because he was trying to g to achieve profitability. He fired them because he wants the opposite of safety. Because the followers he wants will trust the nonsense he shovels to them.

It’s so cool how many grown adults will look at a nazi owning their favorite hangout spot, but pretend he isn’t *really* in charge as long as they keep calling it Twitter instead of X

What day is a good day to leave X, forever? Any day!

I heard that Twitter is still the place where it all happens though

Seems cheerful to me.

Absolutely. Section 230 helps protect a site’s ability to moderate user posts. The fact that the management of X is making horrible editorial decisions should not remove that protection.

Huh?

"If there’s a N@zi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven N@zis."

You mean Friday?

It would be easy enough to just time-stamp community notes, or have a wikipedia style edit history. The other examples of Musk boosting the story and suspending the account debunking it are pretty evident. "a lie can get a million views before the community note gets attached"

When the company itself cut off all research access, adverse assumptions are justified. Just like when you hide or destroy evidence.

You can view pending notes, but it isn't super easy to find that part of the website unless your account is approved to vote on/submit them. (attach a phone number, maybe some other things) Can't remember if there's a fixed threshold for when one goes live.