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#3001592 26-Nov-2022 09:58

A group providing safety training to Jewish community groups says Twitter's ongoing antisemitic content problem is contributing to a dangerous trend of nutjob attacks:

NYTimes: “Twitter has an antisemitism problem — with hashtags such as #holohoax [Holocaust Hoax] and #killthejews abounding on the site,” Michael Masters, the group’s national director and chief executive, wrote in the letter.

Kanye West has been reinstated as has homophobic rothschild conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene. Edit: Apparently West's account was reinstated prior to Musk's acquisition of Twitter.

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#3002941 29-Nov-2022 08:39

Vox: Twitter’s CEO is now Twitter’s main character
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Fears that Twitter might actually break have reached a new pitch. Under Musk’s leadership, Twitter laid off about half of its workforce in the first week of November; it also laid off 4,400 out of 5,500 contract workers. Some 1,200 additional employees resigned after Musk set a deadline by which they’d have to decide to stay or leave, and #RIPTwitter began trending on the site. Meanwhile, advertisers have disappeared from the site, taking millions in revenue with them: According to a new report by Media Matters for America, half of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers, from Coca-Cola to American Express to Chevrolet — who spent a collective $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 — seem to have stopped advertising on the site.

The chaotic implementation of new features and the company’s cold-blooded treatment of employees have attracted a torrent of criticism from Twitter users, former and current Twitter employees, journalists, and others. Twitter is a very public stage, and Musk as its CEO is airing out his every thought — no matter how inane or crude — for the public to see.

Musk is no novice at running companies. But the confusing vision he has presented for Twitter in his first month on the job has made it clear that running a social network is, in fact, hard, and that selling this town square as a monetizable product is proving to be a far more confounding prospect for Musk than even selling EVs.
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Axios: Global legal perils beset a downsized Twitter

Musk's word is law inside Twitter now, but his disdain for rules will encounter tough pushback from governments around the world — just as the company has lost most of the people who managed its relationships with regulators and legislators.

Twitter's biggest challenges lie abroad, particularly in Europe, which has been steadily tightening tech regulations for years.

Twitter has lost its head of policy in Brussels, Stephen Turner, even as the European Union is set to start putting into force its Digital Services Act, which lays out new rules for tech platforms around misinformation, illegal content and transparency.
Gone also is Michele Austin, former head of policy for the U.S. and Canada, at a time when Canada is considering new, tighter privacy rules.
Twitter must continue to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, Europe's data privacy law, but it's not clear that the company is doing so, per TechCrunch.

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#3002968 29-Nov-2022 09:44

Just wait till he becomes POTUS or something with a lot of power. Oh wait...

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#3003395 29-Nov-2022 21:44

Batman: Just wait till he becomes POTUS or something with a lot of power. Oh wait...

Thankfully, he can't, as he wasn't born in the US. Constitution says no.

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#3003512 30-Nov-2022 10:21

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-stops-enforcing-covid-19-misinformation-policy-145445252.html

Holy Moly, how can you complain and try and stop purchase of Twitter based on concern about bots, and then turn Twitter into a cesspool worse than it ever was before, by inviting Trump back and making these sort of policy changes which are likely to just mean just as many bots creating more misinformation.

People will die as a result of this decision.

Wait till someone dies as a result of reading that drinking Diesel will prevent COVID.

The man is an utter cretin.

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#3003595 30-Nov-2022 12:39

Kyanar:

Batman: Just wait till he becomes POTUS or something with a lot of power. Oh wait...

Thankfully, he can't, as he wasn't born in the US. Constitution says no.

He can change the constitution with a Twitter poll right? /j

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#3003809 30-Nov-2022 18:44

Digital Trends: Sorry, Elon — your Tesla phone is never going to happen

...Musk claimed in a recent Tweet that Apple has “threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store” but didn’t tell him why. The Twitter CEO also claims that Apple has “mostly stopped advertising” on the site but also can’t seem to figure out why.

Apparently, the world’s richest man is unable to understand why a company like Apple would want to take some cautionary steps away from the gasoline he’s pouring on Twitter.
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#3003820 30-Nov-2022 19:29

Tesla phone technically would not be hard. It's hard to do without disappointing Tesla fans. Carrier adoption is another challenge. Starlink is one way out of it but probably not enough on its own and not yet.

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#3003847 30-Nov-2022 21:53

Microsoft attempted this, and back in the day, Facebook.

How The Facebook Phone Entered The Red Ring - Rise And Fall

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#3003885 1-Dec-2022 08:36

kingdragonfly: Digital Trends: Sorry, Elon — your Tesla phone is never going to happen

...Musk claimed in a recent Tweet that Apple has “threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store” but didn’t tell him why. The Twitter CEO also claims that Apple has “mostly stopped advertising” on the site but also can’t seem to figure out why.

Apparently, the world’s richest man is unable to understand why a company like Apple would want to take some cautionary steps away from the gasoline he’s pouring on Twitter.
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Its oh so weird that Tesla car owners have to pay extra to enable hardware options that are built into the car in the first place.

Musk being a genius and of "Its not that hard" fame has yet to figure out that all you need to do is make twitter available on IOS devices is to use the web browser, so now just detect the browser and have browser specific UI for it. LOTS of companies already do this.

But not complaining does not keep his face in front of the camera while he pretends to care about anyone.

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#3003969 1-Dec-2022 11:00

networkn:

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-stops-enforcing-covid-19-misinformation-policy-145445252.html

Holy Moly, how can you complain and try and stop purchase of Twitter based on concern about bots, and then turn Twitter into a cesspool worse than it ever was before, by inviting Trump back and making these sort of policy changes which are likely to just mean just as many bots creating more misinformation.

People will die as a result of this decision.

Wait till someone dies as a result of reading that drinking Diesel will prevent COVID.

The man is an utter cretin.

Some would argue that there is nothing wrong with this, since it supports the individual's freedom of decision making without impacting others. The problem is going to be when it does start impacting others, e.g. "I read that drinking diesel prevents covid so I made my kid drink it and now he's dead."

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#3004033 1-Dec-2022 11:22

Here we go.

EU warns Elon Musk of possible Twitter ban under new rules - BBC News

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#3004073 1-Dec-2022 12:26

networkn:

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-stops-enforcing-covid-19-misinformation-policy-145445252.html

People will die as a result of this decision.

I would suggest anyone who gets their vital medical information from social media is subject to Darwin’s effect.

Official sources only.

“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. Carl Sagan 1996

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#3004078 1-Dec-2022 12:43

Dingbatt:

I would suggest anyone who gets their vital medical information from social media is subject to Darwin’s effect.

Official sources only.

I would suggest that anti-vaxers do get their vital medical information from social media. Not good for babies.

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#3004303 1-Dec-2022 18:52

Rikkitic:

Dingbatt:

I would suggest anyone who gets their vital medical information from social media is subject to Darwin’s effect.

Official sources only.

I would suggest that anti-vaxers do get their vital medical information from social media. Not good for babies.

Even is NZ they do

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/parents-refuse-vaccinated-donor-blood-baby

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