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General Elon Musk Fukkery Thread
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Elon Musk silent on man sentenced to death for his tweets
The incident is the latest test of the limits of Elon Musk's support for free speech.
www.newsweek.com
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Speech ain't always freeElon Musk silent on man sentenced to death for his tweets
The incident is the latest test of the limits of Elon Musk's support for free speech.
ADevilYouKhow
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Musk's X to collect biometric information and employment data
X will start collecting users' biometric information and employment history, according to an update to its privacy policy.
Y’all down with this?
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These guys are definitely something not sure “woke” is the word I would choose.
If you thought that a vehicle would appreciate in value over time, you deserve everything you get.
Study: Elon Musk's X takeover helped Russian disinfo thrive
The European Union’s Digital Services Act went into effect on Aug. 25 , just as the European Commission released a study detailing how the act can be used to stem online Russian ...
www.dailykos.com
Study: Elon Musk's X takeover helped Russian disinfo thrive
by Walter Einenkel for Daily Kos
Daily Kos Staff
Sunday, September 03, 2023 at 12:00:07p EDT
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...keover-helped-Russian-disinfo-thrive#comments
The European Union’s Digital Services Act went into effect on Aug. 25, just as the European Commission released a study detailing how the act can be used to stem online Russian disinformation campaigns. According to the study, “Preliminary analysis suggests that the reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts has grown further in the first half of 2023, driven in particular by the dismantling of Twitter’s safety standards.”
The results of the European Commission’s study are no surprise. Elon Musk’s buy-it-and-break-it tenure at X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has been well-documented. His general hypocrisy about being a “free speech absolutist” aside, the world’s richest man has spent a good amount of time misrepresenting facts about his new acquisition. Whether he is lying about the service having an anti-Trump bias before he bought it, or whether he’s lying about how many real-life followers he has on his platform, Musk’s X has been a relentless medium for misinformation.
But Musk is not alone. Although he is responsible for crushing his company’s moderation team and allowing disinformation to flourish on X, Meta and other social media companies have failed as well.
According to the European Commission’s study:
The Digital Services Act will enforce unprecedented and broad regulations on the largest online tech giants. It requires enormous online companies like X, Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram), Amazon, TikTok, Google, and others to be transparent about their data collection. The act also seeks to gain transparency in how a company manipulates its consumers, and how social media platforms moderate not only illegal activity but also potentially damaging disinformation.
The EU believes that if the Digital Services Act had been in effect last year, Russian disinformation efforts could have been mitigated by compelling big tech companies to demonetize and stymie the reach of many of these bad actors. This is good news for Europe and hopefully for Ukraine. Unfortunately, we have no such regulations in the United States, and the bills that have been suggested—usually focused on rolling back Section 230 protections—are not a solution.
While EU countries can look forward to more accountability from tech giants, Americans are bound to be dealing with even more disinformation. Services like Facebook and YouTube have begun stepping back their moderation efforts in advance of the 2024 presidential election. That means former President Donald Trump’s constant lies won’t be accompanied by a note pointing out that he’s lying.
Trump’s continuing legal problems, the car crash of a Republican debate, and the polling numbers defy the traditional media’s narrative that the Republican Party is even above water with voters.
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Elon Musk blames school for rift with daughter: ‘She doesn’t want to spend time with me’
“I’ve made many overtures,” Musk told the author of an upcoming biography about the Tesla CEO.
www.today.com
$41k price up on the model X? Might have to cop another one
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Down 60% -- "...they never coming back, so that's that" - word to Tha Ruler, We Know The Truth
Elon Musk blames school for rift with daughter: ‘She doesn’t want to spend time with me’
“I’ve made many overtures,” Musk told the author of an upcoming biography about the Tesla CEO.
I'd bet the venn diagram circles of "people who have spent a lot of time with Elon Musk" and "people who want to spend more time with Elon Musk" don't have a lot of overlap.
Voice of Reason
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fukk Tesla and Musk
He is surrounded by sycophants who are hesitant to tell him the truth.
Reporter Kara Swisher has probably done the most interviews with him. Based on some interviews she has done, everybody he surrounds himself with has something to gain by kissing his ass and something to lose if he excommunicated them.