#tfg #elonmusk #x #birdsite #elections2024
Musk wants to do here like he did in Brazil;
“ These days, in private conversations, Mr. Musk is obsessive, almost manic, about the stakes of the election and the need for Mr. Trump to win. He praises Mr. Trump’s courage under fire — he endorsed him on the night of the assassination attempt in Butler — and talks about how funny he is. ”
/nosanitize
He wants to get his dumbass site shut down by the courts here?
How did "what Musk did in Brazil" work out for Bolsonaro? Why would I think he'd have better success here?
@mcfate the fact that all the misinformation spread in his platform does have an effect, last time I was there I could see that kind of posts and people they allowed in the platform, for example “ Haitians eating cats and dogs “ and all those kinds of things are very popular there , I know because I speak everyday with a Trump supporter, actually she believes that there is a machine to control the weather!!! I don’t know if he will succeed here but he will definitely have an impact.
Formerly-Known-As had nothing to do with that. Dickless and Flipper started that rolling.
@mcfate who are dickless and flipper ?
Moby Dickless, the guy who's running for President, and his little sidekick, the one who called Dickless "America's Hitler" up until "Hitler" offered him a job.
@mcfate oh I see, yes , they started it but it is spreading thanks to twitter, mostly .
No, it's spreading because they started it. You can't connect Twitter to this story other than simply observing that people there slavishly repeat it.
The majority of Americans aren't on Formerly-Known-As at all. Nine out of ten of those who are, never use it.
Why would I, or anyone, believe it was spreading "thanks to Twitter" as opposed to some people incessantly in the news repeating it multiple times and its being widely reported on?
@mcfate “ mostly “ is a key word, it started with them ( Trump and JD Vance ) but you also have the bots on Twitter, the troll farms and obviously ( as you mentioned) people repeating it , but the reason Musk bought twitter was to put the finger on the scale, he who controls the narrative also controls the outcome.
I disagree with all of this. There's no basis for claiming Formerly-Known-As had a part in spreading it when every TV news show and newspaper was already reporting it.
As I said, only four out of a given 100 Americans are active Twitter users.
Musk bought Twitter because a judge in Delaware took his signing a contract as a joke seriously, in spite of his making valiant efforts to weasel out of it.
He bought it because he was MADE to buy it, ultimately.
@mcfate Speer reviewed paper disagrees with you.
No, it doesn't. That analysis is entirely contained WITHIN Twitter. It demonstrates no influence OUTSIDE of Twitter.
@mcfate wow !! You read a peer reviewed paper in under a minute!!! Amazing!!
Show me where it supports a claim that things that happen ON Twitter affect people who AREN'T on Twitter.
All this paper says is that IDs on Twitter may influence OTHER IDs on Twitter, and that's no the claim.
@Jorro
No, it's not, and now you're verging on intellectual dishonesty.
Quote the part of the paper that proves me wrong, please. THAT'S what you need to do.
All this shows is that Twitter influences Twitter. You're claiming it influences REALITY.