Elon Musk fires THOUSANDS of Twitter staff members! (UPDATE: TWITTERPOCALYPSE! Journalists and leftist accounts banned without warning!))

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Today in X (@TodayInTwitter@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image For the SIXTH time today, we've got BREAKING NEWS: Elon Musk's X Corp. is suing Media Matters for America and “ALL those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company,” according to Mr. Musk in a post made at 2:01 a.m. Eastern time. Musk calls the lawsuit...

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[Arizax2]

Today in X (@TodayInTwitter@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image For the SIXTH time today, we've got BREAKING NEWS: Elon Musk's X Corp. is suing Media Matters for America and “ALL those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company,” according to Mr. Musk in a post made at 2:01 a.m. Eastern time. Musk calls the lawsuit...

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I don't get how suing these big companies that paid money to X to put ads up is a good idea. This will just discourage other companies to work with X in fear of some bs lawsuit if they decide to pull out later. Musk got to realize companies make move for their best interest. They are suspending ads on X but rest assured they will come back later in due to but suing them almost garentee they won't. Brah is thinking short term and it's completely understandable if they don't want their brand to be anywhere near Nazi shyt.

 

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Only a white South African would ban the use of the term decolonization.

Twitter's been cooked. I deactivated a while ago

 

[im_sleep]

We should be take this as further note of what we’re up against, that these devils will willingly lose BILLIONS of dollars just to say some racist shyt.

 

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[Family Lives Matter]

He posts shyt about black people every day for the last year .


He post one thing about Jewish people and they got shyt locked down in less than 24 hours

 

[Micky Mikey]

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Don't you think it is incredibly concerning that he is one of the one's at the forefront of creating an AGI?

 

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Don't you think it is incredibly concerning that he is one of the one's at the forefront of creating an AGI?

not really, if he wants to align an AGI according to his views that could mean an artificial intelligence that would accept and "believe" in the idea of supremacy which puts him and like-minded individuals in peril too. so it's really up in the air what the final outcome of it all might be. i'm curious to see how an A.I built with a similar "mindset" might reason.

 

[Micky Mikey]

not really, if he wants to align an AGI according to his views that could mean an artificial intelligence that would accept and "believe" in the idea of supremacy which puts him and like-minded individuals in peril too. so it's really up in the air what the final outcome of it all might be. i'm curious to see how an A.I built with a similar "mindset" might reason.

I guess I'm worried about him building an A.I. that has an inherent bias against people of color. Perhaps i'm reaching but i don't think someone with his views should be anywhere where near tech that could potentially determine all of our fates.

 

[Carl Tethers]

I guess I'm worried about him building an A.I. that has an inherent bias against people of color. Perhaps i'm reaching but i don't think someone with his views should be anywhere where near tech that could potentially determine all of our fates.

Hate sounding cynical but A.I. already will be. All types of racist weirdos been coding that shyt since day one

 

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I guess I'm worried about him building an A.I. that has an inherent bias against people of color. Perhaps i'm reaching but i don't think someone with his views should be anywhere where near tech that could potentially determine all of our fates.

yeah in it's current state it can do harm depending how it's deployed but as far as "AGI" goes thats something that should be able to "think" and in general people who think in bigoted or racist way don't just limit it to one group and they also develop biases that harm decision making or reasoning skills.

 

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https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/11/28/the-washington-post-will-pause-its-advertising-on-x/

The Washington Post Will Pause Its Advertising on X​

The move comes after Elon Musk endorsed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.​

WRITTEN BY ANDREW BEAUJON

| PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Photograph by Evy Mages

The Washington Post has decided to pause its advertising on X, a spokesperson tells Washingtonian.

The decision follows owner Elon Musk’s bizarre embrace of the utterly debunked “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory on Tuesday. It’s not really worth going into the mechanics of what led one of the world’s richest people down the same dumb rabbit hole that caused Edgar Maddison Welch to enter Comet Ping Pong in Northwest DC with a gun almost seven years ago today. But it’s of a piece with Musk’s recent praise for an antisemitic conspiracy theory that has reportedly cost X, formerly known as Twitter, more than $75 million in revenue and caused some media companies to distance themselves from the platform altogether.

The spokesperson wasn’t able to confirm how much the Post spent advertising on Twitter/X but said the decision is effective this week and that its ads should stop running on Musk’s platform soon. Twitter did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

 

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X Bans and Then Unbans Journalists and Podcasters in Twitter's Latest Free Speech Massacre [Updated]

Elon Musk's "free speech" social media platform banned a number of accounts recently critical of Israel.

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X Bans and Then Unbans Journalists and Podcasters in Twitter's Latest Free Speech Massacre [Updated]​

Elon Musk's "free speech" social media platform banned a number of accounts recently critical of Israel.​

By Thomas Germain

Published 6 hours ago
Updated 4 hours ago
Comments (46)

Photo: Antonio Masiello / Contributor (Getty Images)

Update, 1:12 p.m.: Shortly after this article was published, Musk responded to a question about the issue from far-right influencer Jackson Hinkle. Musk promised to investigate, and the accounts went back up soon after. Musk later blamed the “mistake” on X’s spam algorithms. The Hamas account is still suspended.

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, purged an unknown number of prominent accounts over the last 24 hours with little to no explanation, and then restored the accounts minutes after this article was published. The list includes popular accounts belonging to journalists, writers, and podcasters. Among them are Ken Klippenstein of the Intercept, writer and podcaster Rob Rousseau, Texas Observer correspondent Steven Monacelli, the account for TrueAnon, a left-wing politics and news podcast, and a number of others. One thing the accounts have in common is recent criticisms of the Israeli government.

Elon Musk spent the last few months dealing with blowback after he endorsed the blatantly racist conspiracy theory that Jews encourage “hatred against whites.” The CEO then embarked on a campaign to restore his image, celebrating the Israeli military, denouncing antisemitism, and traveling to Israel for an impromptu meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I can’t think of anything I’ve posted lately that would be worthy of suspension. Although I have written multiple critical reports about Twitter/X and Elon Musk in recent months,” Monacelli told Gizmodo. “Yes, I have made posts critical of Israel’s targeting of civilians and journalists, and have shared news about pro-Palestinian protests, but I have also recently made posts and shared news debunking antisemitism disguised as criticism of Israel.”

Less than half an hour after this article was published, far-right influencer Jackson Hinkle tweeted at Musk, asking him why accounts critical of Israel were being suspended. Musk, who has a history of handling customer service questions for prominent conservative users, responded.

“I will investigate. Obviously, it is ok to be critical of anything, but it is not ok to call for extreme violence, as that is illegal,” Musk wrote. “For the record, I do not personally agree with your views. Nonetheless, the point of freedom of speech is allowing those whose views you disagree with to express those views.” Shortly thereafter, the accounts were restored.

Journalist firebrand Glenn Greenwald, a darling of the Neolibertarian Twitter movement, thanked Musk for looking into the problem. Musk blamed the suspensions on X’s anti-spam algorithms.

“We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them,” Musk tweeted. In another tweet, the billionaire wrote, “There are around 600 million active accounts on this platform. Mistakes are bound to be made at such a scale, but we try to fix them quickly.”

Monacelli shared an email from X apologizing for the issue. “We’re writing to let you know that we’ve unsuspended your account,” X’s support team wrote. “We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope to see you back on X soon.”

Screenshot: Gizmodo / X

Like the other accounts, the TrueAnon podcast has a history of criticizing the Israeli government, and recently concluded a two-part series delving into the country’s nuclear weapons program. “Why did Elon ban my podcast account what about free speech,” Liz Franczak, co-host of TrueAnon, wrote on her personal X account. “Why is the woke mob coming after hard working American small businesses?”

We’ve reached out to other affected users and will update this article if we hear back. X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“As a journalist I’ve been matrix dodging layoffs my entire career, Elon isn’t even on the top 10 of threats to my survival,” Klippenstein wrote on X. “Had the ban stuck - and I imagine it will eventually - I would’ve just migrated to my newsletter.”

Musk, who calls himself a “free speech absolutist” has previously said no one should be banned from X unless they break the law. “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy,” Musk tweeted in 2022, in the lead-up to buying the platform. In reality, Musk has a long history of silencing his critics and censoring views he finds disagreeable.

Screenshot: Gizmodo / X

The world’s richest man hasn’t blamed the majority of the account suspensions on automated mistakes. However, @qassam2024, an account tied to Hamas’s military, was banned the just one day prior. This was an intentional policy decision, according to Musk, unlike the other “mistakes.”

“This was a tough call,” Musk wrote on X. “While many government leaders, including in the USA, do call for killing people, we have a ‘UN exemption rule’; if a government is recognized by the UN, we will not suspend their accounts. Hamas is not recognized as a government by the UN, so was suspended.”

Unlike the other users, the Hamas account is still suspended. Musk tweeted that the “UN exemption” still applies.

Other banned accounts, however, have no history of calling for killing people, but they’ve all criticized the Israeli government. Klippenstein, for example, recently posted an article on his Substack newsletter noting that Musk discussed AI during his November meeting with Netanyahu as the Israeli government used AI to bomb Gaza. Klippenstein has also posted critiques of the Israeli government and military on X.

This isn’t the first time Musk kicked journalists off the platform and then welcomed them back after public criticism. In 2022, Musk rewrote Twitter’s rules in order to ban @ElonJet, an account that tracked his private jet, and then suspended the accounts of a number of journalists who wrote about @ElonJet, including some that had never actually discussed it on X. It sparked widespread condemnation, and soon after, the accounts were restored, despite the fact that Musk continued to claim they violated X’s rules.