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I don't think the people who are going to read your message here are the people that need to be told that.

*Xitter

Horrible day to have eyes

You have just signed up to be fed to the Joshua trees. Hope they have mercy for I do not.

How many NPR fans are on Twitter these days, anyway? If Twitter had not chosen to step in and falsely label this story, it might have gotten 10 click-throughs and that’s it. But now, it’s an actual story, it remains in the news, and I’m not sure if that’s positive for the Trump campaign.

This is an interesting thought. Is Twitter now useful exclusively as a Streisand-Effect machine?

There’s a human centipede that goes from Putin to Trump to Musk. That’s why they are doing it.

Oh, he's for sure testing the waters on this relatively small event. Throw the spam tag on and see what happens. If not much happens, I guarantee you will be seeing it more on factual reported events.

If there is a big uproar? Oops, our algorithm was malfunctioning.

Because this looks really fucking bad. Like even by Trump standards. They know that their best hope is turning this into another heated alternative facts culture war issue.

They do this not because they think it will actually change minds, but because it makes talking about "the most recent crazy thing Trump did" a "political statement" which means people can't bring it up at work or around certain family, etc. If they turn it into a political third rail it prevents people from talking about it.

guarantees it will remain a story long after the rest of us move on.

A story where? On twitter where it is marked as unsafe and full of lies?

This is not the streisand effect. This is demonstrating the power of literally controlling the media to a degree that even rupert murdock gets envious of. Because if your news channel is spewing garbage? Other news channels and "grass roots" efforts will correct it. But if the platform they use to correct it is the thing that is compromised?

Shit like this? The trump story (that was never going to get traction) is irrelevant. What is relevant is musk and his handlers advertising what twitter can do and how long twitter is willing to "hold out" to regulation attempts.

It is the same logic behind apple making it clear they will resist information requests until there is a court order or Proton outright telling its users what it will and won't give law enforcement and governments. Except this is marketing toward those governments, not the users.

its easy when you don't have any managing to do. the dude's effectively unemployed. truly a testament to the real value that CEOs add to the economy. zero, if not less.

It's probably super easy for him.

He was probably browsing and just has a button to do shit to posts he doesn't like.

All other media companies drove the Overton Window off a cliff

It's also leftwing because it's cerebral.

The worst fucking part is that NPR has reacted to this shit by over-correcting and becoming obviously right-leaning in their reporting on US news. It's a fucking joke. I guess all it takes to stop press from being "free" is a bunch of violent assholes willing to threaten to rape you family. Who would've thought.

This isn't exactly the same because the Arlington incident actually happened and has some bearing on an ongoing political campaign as opposed to being pure speculation and misinformation.

Don't forget the Saudi royal family!

Why would that be a section 230 violation? That only means the providers are not legally responsible for user content.

Xitler.