X? I think they mean Twitter. X is just a letter of the alphabet.
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That's what I said. Don't cater to him by calling it X. But I'm not supposed to change the headline.
I'm fine with calling it X. The Twitter brand had value, X doesn't
Imagine spending that much money on something and throwing away literally everything of value. The people, credibility, branding, and code all out the window.
If people would just stop using it, and stop treating it like a serious place, no one would give a fuck what musk did. Why does anyone have any expectations that musk will do anything but the worst possible thing? He's cut from the same cloth as Trump. Just figure out what is the worst thing he could possibly do in any given situation and then expect him to do that thing. You won't be surprised and you'll look like god damned Nostradamus.
For example, I predict he will use AI to replace 90% humans responsible for identifying and handling reported tweets, resulting in "accidentally" deleting innocuous tweets posted by people he doesn't like while somehow failing to recognize illegal harassment or CSAM.
I think he might integrate dogecoin with Twitter, making it frictionless to turn cash into crypto, and then accept it to pay for Twitter, increasing the usage and value of it and also essentially earmarking all that money for himself because the easiest way to dispose of dogecoin would be to send it to some other rube or just buy another month of Twitter.
It's like a game of cards against humanity, except every card just says "Elon Musk ___________ Twitter."
Get off of Twitter before 2024.
Already ticked that box on my to-do list about the time he bought it and started dismantling, well, everything.
With forced paid subscriptions that will be the case.
Xcrement. Get all your daily Xcretions here!
I am fine calling it X. Nothing feels better than breaking up with an X.
In case you're wondering why Musk has taken a hard right turn and embraced the party of fascism and disinformation, evidently it's because the Santa Monica private school he sent his trans daughter to, "turned her into a communist," who no longer wants anything to do with her father.
Ex-Twitter.
This is how I refer to it. Or x-twitter
💩 X was not immediately available for comment. 💩
What did Grimes do now?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
SYDNEY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's X, formerly called Twitter, disabled a feature that let users report misinformation about elections, a research organisation said on Wednesday, throwing fresh concern about false claims spreading just before major U.S. and Australian votes.
Removing a way for people to report suspected political misinformation may limit intervention at a time when social media platforms are under pressure to curtail falsehoods about electoral integrity, which have grown rapidly in recent years.
It comes less than three weeks before Australia holds a referendum, its first in a quarter century, on whether to change the constitution to establish an Indigenous advisory body to parliament and 14 months before a U.S. presidential election.
"It would be helpful to understand why X have seemingly gone backwards on their commitments to mitigating the kind of serious misinformation that has translated into real political instability in the US, especially on the eve of the 'bumper year' of elections globally," said Alice Dawkins, executive director of Reset.Tech Australia.
Since billionaire Musk took Twitter, as it was then known, private in late 2022, the company, which cut most of its workforce, has been accused of allowing the proliferation of antisemitism, hate speech and misinformation.
Australia's internet safety regulator wrote to X in June demanding an explanation for an explosion in hate speech on the platform, noting it had reinstated some 62,000 high profile accounts of individuals who espouse Nazi rhetoric.
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