| ▲ | hbarka an hour ago |
| How does Elon Musk reconcile this with his own behavior on X, personally boosting fringe people and groups? |
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| ▲ | mikeyouse an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Remember when Musk’s entire cause celebre was to expose the bot networks and paid trolls on Twitter and then he dropped all of that bluster when he realized how useful they’d be to his political goals? |
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| ▲ | neuralkoi an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | This also was an individual who was getting very little sleep, taking an unknown assortment of hallucinogenic psychotropics, who clearly got drunk off his own success and the attention he got, possibly psyop'd by multiple governments due to his reach and influence. It's kind of tragic. He reminds me of Smeagol from Lord of the Rings. People lacking any virtue (like wisdom, compassion, or courage) are extremely vulnerable to external dark forces. | |
| ▲ | jpadkins an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Then why is he allowing it to be exposed right now? If actually useful to his political goals, he would suppress the launch of the location feature, right? | | |
| ▲ | _whiteCaps_ 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Haven't they turned the feature off again already? (I don't have a twitter account, so I can't check) | |
| ▲ | jjk166 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | If your bot farm happens to be domestic, exposing all the foreign bot-farms competing for the same audience seems like a no brainer. |
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| ▲ | phantasmish an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | They’re probably also such a large part of the active Twitter “user base” that substantially reigning them in would be enough to put the product into a permanent, sharp decline. |
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| ▲ | psunavy03 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| While I don't agree with him doing that, he's doing it above board and in his own name. That's different from foreign actors doing it incognito under covered identities. Elon is a nut, but he's open about being a nut. |
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| ▲ | rtkwe 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That would require introspection, something he's far too busy for. |
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| ▲ | throw_m239339 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > How does Elon Musk reconcile this with his own behavior on X, personally boosting fringe people and groups? Musk has his own agenda. |
