#musk is killing twitter

[clubpenguist]

[ID: Tweet from Elon Musk edited to be the first part of the “Down with Cis” post. It reads: “Here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there. Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this but screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and” The rest of the text is cut off. /End ID, thanks to @seven-saffodils for captioning!]

[yamimichi]

RIP Twitter

Elon Musk may well have actually killed Twitter. I'm glad I left when I did. I used to love Twitter but Musk ruined it for me. We deserved so much better.

[tomorrowusa]

Elon Musk is making life easy for Putin’s trolls.

Hundreds of Russian and Chinese state propaganda accounts are thriving on Twitter after Elon Musk wiped out the team that fought these networks, the BBC has found.

The unit worked to combat "information operations", coordinated campaigns by countries such as Russia, China, and Iran, made to influence public opinion and disrupt democracy.

But experts and former employees say the majority of these specialists resigned or were laid off, leaving the platform vulnerable to foreign manipulation. The BBC has spoken to several of them. They asked for anonymity, citing non-disclosure agreements and threats they received online.

"The whole human layer has been wiped out. All Twitter has left are automated detections systems," a former senior employee said.

These “non-disclosure agreements“ are an attempt to circumvent accountability. Some of these former employees should be subpoenaed to testify at a Senate committee – that would provide them with the legal ability to disregard Musk’s non-disclosure agreements during testimony.

The troll farm operated by Putin crony Yevgeny Prigozhin actively worked to assist Donald Trump in 2016. With Russia mired in Ukraine, manipulating Western opinion is a cheap way for the Putin dictatorship to undermine Western support for Ukraine. 

Organised groups of people posting coordinated messages are called 'troll farms.' The term was first used by Russian reporters who exposed one of roughly 300 paid employees run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group.

Since then, troll farms influencing elections and public opinion have been uncovered in many countries, from Poland and Turkey to Brazil and Mexico. They have also been used as a propaganda tool in ethnic conflicts and wars.

Now, a new group of Russian trolls is active on Twitter.

It supports Putin's war in Ukraine, ridicules Kyiv and the West, and attacks independent Russian-language publications, including the BBC Russian Service. Many of these trolls' accounts have been suspended, but dozens are still active.

You might say that Musk is manure for the troll farms.

Lately Russia and China have also been using deceptive social media accounts to foment discord in the US over Trump’s recent indictment. The PBS NewsHour had a report on this a couple of days ago.

In general we need to quit relying on social media for news if we don’t want to get hoodwinked.

I have apps on my phone for the BBC, DW, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBC, The Guardian, CNN, ABC (Australia)*, and about half a dozen other legit news organizations. I have notifications for them turned on. It’s not a perfect system but the chances of getting misinformation this way are small.

Social media has long been subject to manipulation. With Musk having eviscerated moderation at Twitter, that platform is more problematic than ever. I have not logged on at Twitter for years, but I maintain a bookmarked list of legit accounts which I check with varying degrees of regularity.

It’s time for serious users to leave Twitter. It continues to deteriorate under Musk. NPR announced this week that it is quitting Twitter. A viable alternative to Twitter, not vulnerable to a takeover by a rightwing oligarch, needs to be developed ASAP.

_________________________ * Just want to say that ABC News in Australia is an excellent news source. It goes way beyond Australian news. It punches way above its weight for the size (26.4 million) of the country. FYI: I’m not Australian; never been closer to the country than Southern Illinois. Look for their app at your app store. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[wassup-its-e]

Hey so like twitter freaking obliterated itself [again]

wassup im E, im an mcyt + multifandom artist, i draw alot of cool stuff that you might recognised [on that damned dead bird app], this post for the people who knew me on twt to find me on tumblr

[wearevillaneve]

"Evil is just short for eve and villanelle." --- Comergetme/Twitter

[ipwarn]

Holy fuck I should delete twitter. Unfortunately, the sole reason I still use it is for Broadway news. And I have yet to find a place that matches it. I set up a Bluesky account and would happily move myself over there but nobody is using it.

Please god can there be a mass migration now? Bluesky looks exactly how Twitter used to look. And it's not run by a pathetic incel like Elon Musk.

[drulalovescas]

Listen, I know there's no correlation (or is there?) between Misha's post and Twitter's demise but it is objectively funny that Twitter died on the day Misha Collins tweeted "Cas is gay."

[ruthirlcartoon]

Oh so the dead internet theory is actually like 100% real ok alright

This person has like 1000 tweets, he answers people who are probably bots too and a lot of his tweets are praising chatgpt, crypto and Elon which y'know. Isn't surprising or whatever but still i fucking hate Twitter and what will become of social media and all

[nando161mando]

[sreegs]

[faneth]

so the muskrat made it impossible for people with ukrainian phone numbers to make accounts or pass the 2FA on twitter isnt that fun /s

[beluharts]

BOO i'm a platform rebrand

did i scare you? 😭😭

they killed the twitter bird for this

its so bad why

[criptide0]

really feeling like an immigrant (im a brazilian that came cuz twitter was shut down)

[bogmommy]

genuinely what the actual fuck is going on in the world . why do normal people, most of whom are also struggling do get by because of the abysmal financial climate, have to turn their wallets inside out to try to help others while governments and billionaires do fuck all. omfg if having a lot of money makes you completely devoid of empathy i'd rather be poor all my life thanks

[fake-destiel-news]

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[wearevillaneve]

14-TIME EMMY NOMINEE SANDRA MIJU OH. (original post by ayse on Twitter/X).