Musk actually buys Twitter.
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Megadeath
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Provenance of the information?
Musk made the whole code open to the public to see yesterday, this is someone who went trolling through the code to see how engagement was monitored/boosted by the algorithms.
Anyone that wants to can now go and verify what is in the Twitter code now.
Megadeath
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On investigation, no he did not. Twitter released some of the code. What they released was specifically the stuff that controls how stuff gets shared more or less. This feels less like brilliant code analysis and more like a simple retweet.
That doesn't change that if this is all actually in there it's not great, but to my mind the worse part is that twitter felt the need to specifically label content as either Republican or Democrat and then share it accordingly. Feeding people only what agrees with and amplifies their current views probably makes aense for building trust and engagement but I think that kinda bubbling actively damages society.
They're feeding what drives engagement.
Yeah, actively making tweet sharing based on presumed political alignment of the tweet in question is a horrible precedent.
If people actively curate their own feeds, that's one thing; doing it for them in regards to politics is actively harmful to social discourse.
However:
Is the more basic reason; make the big quarterly earning line go up is the ultimate driver of many corpo decisions.
strunkenwhite
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The corporate profit incentive leads to it behaving in ways corrosive to society and inducing its customers to do the same, news at 11.
NPR will no longer use Twitter due to being labeled as "government funded media" on its Twitter profile. They state they did this because it implies they are not editorially independent.
www.pbs.org
Their last tweet for now.
It's a short thread with links to download their app, newsletters and find them on other social media like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
NPR won't use Twitter after being labeled 'government-funded media'
National Public Radio is quitting Twitter over the social media company's recent actions under owner Elon Musk to stamp it with labels the news organization says are meant to undermine its credibility.
www.pbs.org
Their last tweet for now.
It's a short thread with links to download their app, newsletters and find them on other social media like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
NPR will no longer use Twitter due to being labeled as "government funded media" on its Twitter profile. They state they did this because it implies they are not editorially independent.
NPR won't use Twitter after being labeled 'government-funded media'
National Public Radio is quitting Twitter over the social media company's recent actions under owner Elon Musk to stamp it with labels the news organization says are meant to undermine its credibility.
Their last tweet for now.
It's a short thread with links to download their app, newsletters and find them on other social media like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
If you get money from the goverment you are government funded, its litterally the truth.
Yeah Twitter even changed the label from "State Sponsored Media" to "Government Funded Media" to highlight the distinction between regime mouthpieces and editorially independent media funded by the government.
NPR will no longer use Twitter due to being labeled as "government funded media" on its Twitter profile. They state they did this because it implies they are not editorially independent.
NPR won't use Twitter after being labeled 'government-funded media'
National Public Radio is quitting Twitter over the social media company's recent actions under owner Elon Musk to stamp it with labels the news organization says are meant to undermine its credibility.
Their last tweet for now.
It's a short thread with links to download their app, newsletters and find them on other social media like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
What a bunch of manipulative bastards being butthurt about people knowing basic facts about them. They literally have "public" in the name and are government funded, if they think that the most minimal illusion of independence is so necessary to their very "benevolent" work, well, they always have the option of making it reality, leaving NPR, and setting up a private radio that won't take government money on principle.
LordDemiurge
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Not even just that.
NPR was literally established via legislation. The fact is easily available and public too. To quote wikipedia.
So its mostly the usual cycle of people screeching on Twitter about how they're being by Twitter.
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And so passes the CBC.
You can still find them on TikTok though.
69%.... Nice. 👌
You can still find them on TikTok though.
69%.... Nice. 👌
The great checkmark purge has begun.
Let's see how it's going?
Mmm... everything looks fine here.
Let every citizen be a city unto himself.
But don't worry, the fake account has already been suspended or whatever. Sad.
Broke ass City.
Let's see how it's going?
Mmm... everything looks fine here.
Let every citizen be a city unto himself.
But don't worry, the fake account has already been suspended or whatever. Sad.
Broke ass City.
Holy shit, this is hilarious.
TheRejectionist
TheRejectionist
@Marduk I only half-agree with you here.
They are "want-to-be-manipulative" bastards but can't because most people are not brand-loyal like a Nintendo CONSUMER and not gonna shed tears over this cunts leaving the now (almost) public digital place of discussion.
The rest is on point.
EDIT : Added this ⬇️
Might need a separate thread for the Twitter Departures. It's going to sound like an airport soon.
The name George Hahn sounds familiar but also extremely generic. RIP.
The name George Hahn sounds familiar but also extremely generic. RIP.
Might need a separate thread for the Twitter Departures. It's going to sound like an airport soon.
The name George Hahn sounds familiar but also extremely generic. RIP.
98% of them will be back. Just like how they were all gonna leave when he took over and didn't
Elon Musk's new video interface is being tested out.
I'm not big on the idea of watching hour long videos on Twitter because its mainly a SCROLLING platform so they'll need to rectify that somehow like with a mini player or something if you watch something and keep on scrolling, but Elon Musk has stated repeatedly that he wanted to make Twitter better for content creators then YouTube.
I'm not big on the idea of watching hour long videos on Twitter because its mainly a SCROLLING platform so they'll need to rectify that somehow like with a mini player or something if you watch something and keep on scrolling, but Elon Musk has stated repeatedly that he wanted to make Twitter better for content creators then YouTube.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
It doesn't take much to get libtards seething