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LuinAelin t1_j5toh9y wrote

I've noticed since the Musk take over twitter is filled with hate and misinformation.

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NBAWhoCares t1_j5tthc3 wrote

>I've noticed since the Musk take over twitter is filled with hate and misinformation.

He unbanned Nick Fuentes over the weekend who then immediately started praising hitler

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xc2215x t1_j5tz20u wrote

Nick agrees with Elon politically so Elon will not go against Nick.

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RonnieDobbs t1_j5u04yp wrote

Nick's account just got suspended again.

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explosivecrate t1_j5utmjc wrote

Honestly I wonder what the last straw was.

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Moneia t1_j5uvcnb wrote

Sometimes it's as simple as a "My decisions have made me the subject of ridicule. Again." volte-face

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danmathew t1_j6264go wrote

He probably criticized Elon. That's why he rebanned Kanye.

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MrJoyless t1_j5tvqsd wrote

>I've noticed since the Musk take over twitter is filled with

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>hate and misinformation.

It's always been there, there's just more now.

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Rulare t1_j5u4b7m wrote

And now it's promoted content.

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Morat20 t1_j5ueqjz wrote

I took a peek around -- in addition to their algorithm being deeply broken (it was not unusual for me to log on, see the newest post being 12 to 20 hours old, half "recommended for you" shit -- none of it I was interested in, etc -- I had to turn to chronological to have a readable feed) a casual look at, say, any trans account would see a horde of new bots just responding with basic misgendering to any post. (just auto-replies of "Okay Sir" to trans women, etc). I suspect you'd find various other forms of cheerfully botted bigotry towards any minority on there, and of course as noted he's actively re-platforming actual Nazis.

This is important because Twitter is fucking bleeding Elon's money dry, and their algorithm is what drives their ad sales (the idea that they can put the right ad in front of the right eyeballs) and the bigots drive away ad sales.

He's basically stomping on his own nuts, and costing himself billions a year. It's fucking amazing. I've literally never seen someone that rich so determined to go broke.

I'm literally wondering if he's a masochist.

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overpregnant t1_j5tovxw wrote

absolute shitshow in its content as well as performance

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Rxke2 t1_j5tquba wrote

Yeah, before it was a bastion of civilized discourse.... /s

Before The Elongated One took over, I often flagged blatant racism, but often I got a reply it was not against their rules.

It has probably gotten even worse, but don't pretend as if it was okay before the sink was let in....

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Orx-of-Twinleaf t1_j5tsyg4 wrote

Well no it wasn’t great before but holy shit did it get waaaaay worse than I think any reasonable person could have predicted. Like even if you were expecting Musk to fuck it up for no goddamn reason, it’s still gotten significantly worse.

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Rxke2 t1_j5ug3bf wrote

I don't see much difference, but then again I avoid political circlejerkers etc. I use twitter for updates on fusion, NASA, stuff like that. When I start to follow somebody politically active, it's indeed like opening a sewer. So I try to avoid looking at comments. Lots of gruesome uncensored stuff from ukr/rus war too, lately. Not sure if that is a good thing or not, because some of that stuff is blatantly lying (old vids from other wars etc.)

Then again.... I'm against censorship, but some stuff is clearly manipulative lies... Obv. paid by somebody to sell certain narratives...

And lots of people fall for that kind of stuff. It can be very insidious.

Where will it/we all end?

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yearz t1_j62nyt6 wrote

You know what your problem is? You don't hate Elin Musk for ambiguous reasons

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Rxke2 t1_j64p48u wrote

I do now! I feel better already. Thank you kind stranger.

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Isocratia t1_j5uf7a2 wrote

I repeatedly reported an account called adolf_hodler and they always replied that it didn't violate the rules.

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Redqueenhypo t1_j5utlpn wrote

Oh god, a Nazi and a crypto bro, the worst combo on earth

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Morat20 t1_j5ufphy wrote

You have no idea how much worse it's gotten.

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The_Holy_Bison t1_j5uk293 wrote

I only have a Twitter account so my discord bot can scrape tweets of people I follow so I don't have to look at Twitter, before Elon my suggested follows and tweets were almost all tangentially related to my follows. Now it is full of GQP and other shitty people.

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bewarethetreebadger t1_j5v0f7k wrote

Yeah. That’s what happens when you dissolve the team who’s job it is to filter that out.

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smolyetieti t1_j5tucs8 wrote

Twitter has always been a pit of hate and misinformation. It’s not a Musk in charge problem, it’s a human problem.

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DragoneerFA t1_j5tvtqh wrote

Twitter has been a shit show in the same way Reddit often is. There's a lot of dark places. The difference is there was once equilibrium. The good outweighed the bad and held it at bay. It was always there but now it feels emboldened.

Racism is more in the open, anti-Semitism has become common, and it's a trend in LGBT accounts to have trolls post pictures of woodchippers and imply they need to be purged. There's just tons of people who think Kanye was in the right, and now literal Nazis like Fuentes are back? Yeah. That all vastly escalated after Elon "Assassination Coordinates" Musk said he was freeing speech for all of humanity.

Shit happened before, sure, but now reports against it are largely ignored. You just see it waaay more now.

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hydrOHxide t1_j5tuoro wrote

It's very much a Musk problem in that the quantity has substantially increased.

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yhwhx t1_j5txyu2 wrote

I believe Musk gutting or eliminating the departments that had been responsible for trying to curtail hate and misinformation makes the current state of Twitter a Musk problem.

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d36williams t1_j5tyrtc wrote

Twitter was pretty nice once they asserted themselves and kicked people like Donald Trump off. Still the platform was worse off for it, the community had experienced that poison. Now with Musk, there's no brakes. It's all right wing, kill this, racist that, threaten this, its much worse. Believe it or not, there were some guide rails in the past. For example, they weren't breaking the law in germany and now they are.

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Morat20 t1_j5ufvea wrote

Oh bull fucking shit.

Musk broke, fired, or deliberately removed every mechanism to try to curtail that shit and openly and personally invited every worst actor back on.

So fuck off with that "it's not a musk in charge problem".

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OuidOuigi t1_j5txujy wrote

So it turned into Reddit?

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yhwhx t1_j5tz4l6 wrote

Reddit still seems to be moderating against hate and misinformation; Twitter under Elon does not really seem to be doing that.

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SWG_138 t1_j5u519r wrote

Problem with reddit is the racists usually use dog whistles, so when reporting the bots don't see it as hate speech, so it often remains.

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Elanapoeia t1_j5u9mjk wrote

I've had the bots start to pick on 40% type dogwhistles lately. Things are improving

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pontiacfirebird92 t1_j5udrts wrote

>Reddit still seems to be moderating against hate and misinformation;

That really depends on the subreddit.

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InterlocutorX t1_j5vcyuz wrote

Reddit isn't headed to court in Germany over anti-Semitic content, so no.

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Morat20 t1_j5vf0gt wrote

Reddit bans shit that gets them bad press, too.

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