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I think it's much more reasonable for a news outlet to have a political opinion than a social platform.
The social platform doesn’t have a political opinion. Its owner does. Every owner of every company ever has had political opinions.
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A screenshot on X? It must be true! I’m sure those links back up the assertion. No one would just post something misleading on X, right? /s Maybe the assertion in the tweet is true and maybe it isn’t, but to me, this is the real reason that X should be abandoned. No one on X can be trusted to engage in honest discourse. I don’t believe anything, whether it’s coming from the right or the left if it’s posted on X. You…
And Wikipedia.
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I’m sick to death of everything being described as “opinions that challenge one’s worldview”. There are opinions and there are opinions. There are also philosophical differences of opinion vs things that blatantly factually untrue. Remember “alternative facts”? from the last US election? That was a thing that someone legitimately said in response to specific tangible factually incorrect statements being made about th…
Is your X feed an unfiltered firehose of utter garbage? Mine isn't. That really only speaks to the fact that the algorithm finds that you are more likely to engage with garbage.
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And Wikipedia.
Wikipedia isn’t the cesspool that X is, but yeah, it’s not as reliable as many people think it is.
I'm always skeptical of things I read, the advantage Wikipedia has is that it's easy enough to see what references are used and how active community edits and debate on an article is.
Nuggets of "information" posted to X, Faceook, and the like are often much harder to dig into and peer behind the curtain of.
Yann Lecun is also telling everyone on Twitter very loudly that he won't be posting on Twitter. The Guardian in another article explains that they are annoyed because Musk used twitter to promote his preferred candidate. The Guardian itself used their own platform to publicly endorse Harris. This deja-vu of childish antics is just comical in 2024
Generally, when newspapers endorse a candidate that runs on the editorial page. How did Musk use Twitter to promote his candidate? Was it on whatever the Twitter equivalent of editorial pages are? Was it promoting posts favorable to that candidate in people's feed and/or demoting posts favorable to other candidates? Details matter in these things.
In related news Bluesky added 700,000 new users in the week after the election. Count me in the group who deleted Twitter as soon as the election was over - (I had planned to do so however the election went) https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/11/24293920/bluesky-700000-...
I deleted Twitter as soon as musk took over because he’s a feudalist
https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/worldleaders201...
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X is hundreds of millions of people so it’s hard to claim it’s anything
X refers to the company itself, not every user. And by extension naturally it should refer to the algorithms developed by the company.
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I'm wondering if it's just economics. Are they losing money from X existing? Are they trying to start some "let's all move away from X" trend?
Maybe it's the same with the Guardian. Although when I left, Elmo hadn't bought it and it actually had legitimate businesses buying ad space.
Yann Lecun is also telling everyone on Twitter very loudly that he won't be posting on Twitter. The Guardian in another article explains that they are annoyed because Musk used twitter to promote his preferred candidate. The Guardian itself used their own platform to publicly endorse Harris. This deja-vu of childish antics is just comical in 2024
Real reason: The Guardian can't handle when readers community note them using.. The Guardian. https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1821189070401249385/p...
Twitter could make itself real interesting if it took "community notes" web-wide. So many attempts at this have tried and failed, but Elon may just have the itch, audience, and disposable money to do it. Would also necessitate forking a special browser, since there would be no way to support web page comments in a first-class way in stock mobile browsers.