Elon Musk has issued a reply: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1513373170333487104 > [Face with Hand Over Mouth emoji]
Many of these related tweets have now been deleted, including this one.
Elon has decided not to join our board
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The "bot networks used for astroturfing" are a much used fiction of pro-Musk and anti-Musk people alike. They basically don't exist. Upvote bot networks exist certainly however.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6246561/ > Here we analyze 14 million messages spreading 400 thousand articles on Twitter during ten months in 2016 and 2017. We find evidence that social bots played a disproportionate role in spreading articles from low-credibility sources. Bots amplify such content in the early spreading moments, before an article goes viral. I would also be interested in finding more s…
Different cases. Those things are funded by politicians and foreign governments to influence the general populace. The scale is completely different.
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#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "bot networks used for astroturfing" are a much used fiction of pro-Musk and anti-Musk people alike. They basically don't exist. Upvote bot networks exist certainly however.
There is plenty of evidence they do, can you prove the contrary?
Proving a the lack of existence of something is impossible.
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#305stock manipulation
If only we had a federal department for that....
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#306A very odd set of events and no explanation regarding Elon's change of mind. A pessimist would think that Elon has decided to go for a "hostile" takeover since he is no longer bound by the percentage holding cap. An optimistic would think that Elon had enough self-awareness to realize it would be an overall distraction for Twitter with little benefit. It amuses me more than it should that the CEO of Twitter has poste…
What’s pessimistic about thinking Elon wants more control than a board position would offer him?
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. Twitter is the de facto “public square”. 2. Musk being on the board or not, and his actions re. Twitter in general, will have consequences, especially given that he has unlimited money. 3. Up until recently, the liberal-left was cheering for tech platforms exercising their sovereignty and censoring power: “if you don’t like it, build your own Twitter”. They’re having to eat crow. This has major implications for th…
> 1. Twitter is the de facto “public square”. Can you clarify why you think so? I think even of the small fraction of Americans that use it, most have no reach.
Maybe few average people use it but Twitter is very popular among politicians in many countries. So people interested in politics use Twitter a lot. If Twitter changes dramatically it will most likely affect the political discourse in many countries.
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> jesus christ is he immature This seems to be the #1 complaint about him. Honestly, so what? Since when is Twitter serious business? To take it a step further... why does life have to always be serious business? There's plenty enough of that as it is. I think it's telling that people are up in arms and furious that Elon Musk might... bring back a little free speech and equal moderation to Twitter? I mean the threat…
Character matters a lot. Our leaders should be moral as well as financial leaders. As for the president, you give that position way too much credit (or, inversely, blame). They have no authority or control over gas prices, supply chain issues, or autocrats invading other countries. They’re not God; they’re just doing a job described in Article II of the Constitution. Republican or Democrat; it doesn’t matter.
> They have no authority or control over gas prices, supply chain issues, or autocrats invading other countries.
They may not have direct control... but nobody is arguing the President literally said "supply chain issues, start existing!" or failed to say "gas prices, you better not rise!" while waiving his finger.
Presidents absolutely have indirect control over all of those things though, and more.
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#309Serious question: Who cares? I am not trying to make a joke or seem edgy. Literally, what group of people is actually impacted by this by first or second order effects of…whatever the hell this story entails? In other words, this is on the front page of hacker news. Why?!
If you look at it in the context of Musk 2024 you should probably care about it, given what trump did with twitter.
Would he be allowed? Is he a "natural born citizen"?
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#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
- "CEO of Twitter has posted an image of text (from the iOS Notes app?)" At least he made the effort to include accessible alt-text. (Interestingly, the accessible text differs *slightly* from the picture-of-text version -- different draft revisions? Even social media CEO's don't seem comfortable with this workflow). edit: here's a diff with highlighting: https://i.imgur.com/R9wf2H5.png I'm relying on Verge's transcr…
These are widely different tones and messages, if you have the other for context. Especially the bit about how “we’re still in control”. Seems obvious that a takeover is imminent.
Where's the "we're still in control" bit?