Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

[WelshBloke]

Just a few posts ago you were spreading misinformation about a DDoS attack.

It's a weird hill to decide to die on, that Trump doesn't have a very loose and fleeting relationship with the truth and that Musk isn't a bullshitting edge lord .

 

[cytg111]

The left just call any opinion they don't agree with "misinformation" and it's getting so old. If you listen to the interview it was basically just two people talking about the state of the country in a casual way and giving their opinion on it. This could have been any 2 random people but because it was the two people that spend the most time living rent free in leftist's 1 bedroom apartment heads they are freaking out about it and want to censor it.

If you should provide your top 5 daily news sources, what would they be? Not "x" or whatever but actual accounts and channels?

 

[zinfamous]

The left just call any opinion they don't agree with "misinformation" and it's getting so old.

Stop being so fucking stupid.

 

[Pens1566]

It wasn't a DDoS attack, other spaces were working just fine. It was that twitter has shitty infrastructure and there's nothing that impressive about it's tech anyway. Never has been.

 

[Paratus]

 

[pmv]

Anyway, I could be totally wrong and it's just Musk is a fucking racist little shithead who bought Twitter to spread misinformation and violence

I think your last suggestion is the correct one. He's an immature, spoiled, petulant 'poor little white guy' snowflake.

He's doing the 'you're racist against white people' thing again...

Elon Musk brands Humza Yousaf a ‘super racist scumbag’

Elon Musk has branded Humza Yousaf a “super racist scumbag” and dared the former first minister to sue him.

uk.yahoo.com

Also there's this take on his latest chat with his fellow whiney rich white guy

So Donald chatted with Elon, and here’s the future as they see it – losers win, incompetence rules | Marina Hyde

Both claim they are part of a bright new dawn, but last night the politician could only slur inanities, and the tech boss made a hash of the tech, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

(My one reservation with that article is that the line

I’m sensing that a big part of the reset of the idea of masculine divine is old guys shouting that they can’t make their computers work

is just a bit too close to home for comfort - as my f&*^*&*^& PC internal clock jumps backward in time for no reason yet again)

 

[pete6032]

This could have been any 2 random people but because it was the two people that spend the most time living rent free in leftist's 1 bedroom apartment heads they are freaking out about it and want to censor it.

This wasn't two random people though. This was a candidate for president of the United States and the owner of one of the largest social media platforms in the world, and the candidate launched off baseless claim after baseless claim. It is irresponsible to give a petulant liar a microphone and not fact check him.

Trump rehashes vitriol and falsehoods in rambling talk with Musk – as it happened

This blog is now closed. You can read our on that interview story here.

www.theguardian.com

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/13/politics/fact-check-trump-musk-20-false-claims/index.html

The Trump-Musk chat on X needed a fact-check: What were the false claims the former US president made?

In a wide-ranging interview with Elon Musk on X, former US President Donald Trump made several bold claims about immigration, the economy, and his legal battles. However, a closer look reveals many of these statements to be misleading or outright false, from exaggerated border crossing numbers...

www.firstpost.com

Trump Regales Elon Musk With Familiar Falsehoods

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s claims about immigration, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Biden and more.

www.nytimes.com

 

[pete6032]

For me one of the most egregious moments was the Trump campaign responding to a media question about his apparent list.

In an emailed response to an inquiry about the lisp from a Huffington Post reporter, the Trump campaign said, “Must be your s****y hearing. Get your ears checked.”

Trump repeats same old talking points in Musk interview – but ‘lisp’ steals show

‘Did Trump pause campaign rallies because of this massive lisp he has on this Twitter interview with Elon?’ one X user posted.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MrSquished]

Every time I think @Greenman is closing in on squirrel for biggest piece of ignorant shit, @Red Squirrel posts and proves, the lead is his to lose still

 

[outriding]

The left just call any opinion they don't agree with "misinformation" and it's getting so old. If you listen to the interview it was basically just two people talking about the state of the country in a casual way and giving their opinion on it. This could have been any 2 random people but because it was the two people that spend the most time living rent free in leftist's 1 bedroom apartment heads they are freaking out about it and want to censor it.

Really CNN just fact checked it and found over 20 lies

 

[Pens1566]

For me one of the most egregious moments was the Trump campaign responding to a media question about his apparent list.

Trump repeats same old talking points in Musk interview – but ‘lisp’ steals show

‘Did Trump pause campaign rallies because of this massive lisp he has on this Twitter interview with Elon?’ one X user posted.

www.independent.co.uk

Stephen Cheung, super sized wise and beautiful woman.

edit: lol @ at the forum correcting "see you next tuesday" to that ...

 

[nakedfrog]

The left just call any opinion they don't agree with "misinformation" and it's getting so old. If you listen to the interview it was basically just two people talking about the state of the country in a casual way and giving their opinion on it. This could have been any 2 random people but because it was the two people that spend the most time living rent free in leftist's 1 bedroom apartment heads they are freaking out about it and want to censor it.

Who wants to censor it?
You're so painfully stupid, it's like watching someone holding a claw hammer backwards and continually smacking their hand as they try to pound a screw in with it.

Really CNN just fact checked it and found over 20 lies

You're going to believe MSM CNN cultural marxist lies over our Great and Glorious Braintrust of Musk and Trump?!?

 

[VashHT]

It's getting pretty tiring listening to right wingers constantly lie and claim it's an opinion as if that means it can't be wrong.

 

[iRONic]

Nobody wants to censor it you maple syrup drunk dumb fuck! It needs to be amplified over and over and over. There's two benefits to that; dumbass morons like you who will agree with it come out of the woodwork. And B, mainstream media gets their fill of chum for the political waters. That's how they fill their coffers, getting the rubes to buy in.

 

[pmv]

The left just call any opinion they don't agree with "misinformation" and it's getting so old.

How lies about Southport knife attack suspect led to riots and clashes with police

False claims about suspect’s identity were seen by millions of people on social media prior to the unrest

www.independent.co.uk

The outpouring of rage in the Merseyside town came after disinformation about the attacker’s identity was amplified and seen by millions on social media.

Merseyside Police said on Monday night that a 17-year-old male from Banks in Lancashire, who was born in Cardiff, had been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Despite this – and laws in the UK making it a criminal offence to identify a suspect who is a minor, at least until legal proceedings have completed – false claims began to circulate online purporting to name the suspect as “Ali Al-Shakati” and claiming he had arrived in the UK on a small boat in 2023.

One such source of this disinformation, which also falsely claimed the suspect was known to MI6, was an outlet calling itself Channel3 Now – whose post at 5:51pm on Monday featuring an article on the attack racked up close to two million views on X, formerly Twitter, before being deleted.

According to journalist Katharine Denkinson, who concluded that the post was “racially motivated click-bait”, the website purports to be based in the United States, but has no named journalists and appears to have started out 12 years ago sharing Russian-language videos of men in cars before pivoting to US news five years ago.


But false claims about the attacker’s identity were rapidly spread on social media by right-wing accounts with large followings.

According to Marc Owen Jones, a disinformation researcher associate professor at Doha’s Hamid bin Khalifa University, there were at least 27 million impressions on social media posts stating or speculating that the attacker was Muslim, a migrant, refugee or foreigner.

So stating that the killer was a Muslim, called "Ali Al-Shakati" and claiming he had arrived on a small boat as an asylum-seeker, is just an "opinion"? If that doesn't count as 'misinformation', what, in your opinion, does? What does the word mean if not things like that (I accept that the original post about JD Vance and his couch would count, though nobody has thrown any bricks or attempted to burn down any buildings as a consequence, just some irresponsible folk have made the odd cheap and lazy joke).

 

[cytg111]

The defining common denominator is their lose and blurry relation to facts... cause what is a fact but your opinion and opinions man I have them too, so TRUMP2024...

You cant help someone who is emotionally attached to that opinion knob, its just not going to happen... If Trump and Elon came out flat earthers squirrel would deepthroat that shit.

 

[Stokely]

Maybe if everyone is tired of hearing about "misinformation", they can demand that the people doing it stop lying.

People like Trump and Musk count on everyone--including the press--to just get tired of the constant stream of bullshit. My answer is: nope. Keep bringing it up.

I'm down for fact checking for all politicians of any party. They all lie, but some more than others

 

[akugami]

Maybe if everyone is tired of hearing about "misinformation", they can demand that the people doing it stop lying.

People like Trump and Musk count on everyone--including the press--to just get tired of the constant stream of bullshit. My answer is: nope. Keep bringing it up.

I'm down for fact checking for all politicians of any party. They all lie, but some more than others

I'd like to add that all those willingly spreading lies, or at least supporting the liars, have their panties up in a bunch.

When you stop calling out the liars, like Trump and Musk, that's when they win.

 

[hal2kilo]

I'd like to add that all those willingly spreading lies, or at least supporting the liars, have their panties up in a bunch.

When you stop calling out the liars, like Trump and Musk, that's when they win.

That's why we have a free press.

 

[Amused]

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[Roger Wilco]

I just saw some extremely disturbing images generated by Musk’s Grok AI. It showed Mickey Mouse and Musk holding assault rifles, standing around slain children lying in pools of blood.

 

[Fenixgoon]

I just saw some extremely disturbing images generated by Musk’s Grok AI. It showed Mickey Mouse and Musk holding assault rifles, standing around slain children lying in pools of blood.

The Internet is gonna Internet. And in this case, getting Disney pissed off at musk might help rein in all the AI bullshit. So I'm for it.

 

[fskimospy]

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They should go further than this, just start generating a whole bunch of 'Elon is a pedo' content to see how fast the 'free speech absolutist' freaks out and censors it.

 

[brycejones]

They should go further than this, just start generating a whole bunch of 'Elon is a pedo' content to see how fast the 'free speech absolutist' freaks out and censors it.

Shit just call him cis that triggers the fuck out of him

 

[Greenman]

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There is actually something to be said for that idea. Why should social media have to employ an army of fact checkers? How do they verify that the fact checkers don't have an agenda? Who watches the watchers?
Why not turn it around and put the burden of proof on the people posting? One lie posted and you're banned from all social media forever?