Raistandantulus
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^^ What you project and reflects yourself. You are lashing out. I'm not.
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DeepEnigma
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Raistandantulus
Member
Good.
The Pleasure
Member
Bill Burr would have something to say about this.
HoodWinked
Member
Ben Collins is like the one guy that's pretty much known as the guy that spreads misinformation and a known liar. He's been suspended by nbc and even got into a fight with Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
No one is impervious to the addictive nature of social media it seems.
He's not the author of the story, he's just sharing. Full story is here:
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
www.platformer.news
It's by the same 2 people that have been covering the Twitter story since Musk took over and probably before then too. They both are clearly anti-Musk. Their sourcing is always frustrating. They either won't provide a number of sources or it comes across as one disgruntled employee.
However, in reading the article it seems that Ben is being a bit selective in what he's sharing with his followers. Take a look at this quote:
That's not to say the article is in defense of Musk. The very next lines go back to dunking on him:
In general, I do think these articles are worth reading when something new or relevant comes out, but as always, it's important use critical thinking. If the number of sources is not listed, it's a bit suspicious. If a screenshot could be provided to the reader but is not... well, you get the idea.
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Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Been a bit since I checked Musk's Twitter. 
Thaedolus
Member
It’s also being reported by Yahoo (via Bloomberg):
Musk Forced Algorithm Change to Help Boost His Tweets: Report
(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk had Twitter Inc. engineers working late on Sunday to alter his social network’s algorithm and prioritize his tweets, resulting in a glut of them in users’ feeds on Monday, according to a report by Platformer.Most Read from BloombergIran Nuclear Inspectors Find Uranium...
Let’s just say it lines up with everything else he’s been doing while there…
Also lines up anecdotally with him all the sudden all over everyone’s For You feeds.
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Raistandantulus
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Musk Forced Algorithm Change to Help Boost His Tweets: Report
(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk had Twitter Inc. engineers working late on Sunday to alter his social network’s algorithm and prioritize his tweets, resulting in a glut of them in users’ feeds on Monday, according to a report by Platformer.Most Read from BloombergIran Nuclear Inspectors Find Uranium...finance.yahoo.com
Muskva is recognizing his rapidly sinking influence with Twitter. Unsurprising that he turned to deceit. It will make it look like it's keeping him from spiraling down the drain on twitter for awhile if no one cares to look to close or bring it up. Super green!
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
You should have told us you were taking over the CEO role!I approve!
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
VN1X
Member
Been a bit since I checked Musk's Twitter.
"and then Elon posted funny pics on twitter and I clapped!"
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
How did you know I clapped?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
VN1X
Member
Sorry, wasn't meant to be a personal call out or anything btw but this idolization of a multi-billionaire by the masses is mind boggling to me. Dude is best buddies with the worst of 'em.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
IDK, I think people are just making jokes.
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
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Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm.
www.theverge.com
It keeps getting sadder and sadder. I liked this response:
Edit: I now I see I skimmed right past your post - whoops
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FireFistAce
Member
Has Twitter shut down yet?
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Him snacking with Rupert Murdoch at the Super Bowl made me nearly choke on my beer I was laughing so hard. He has gone completely mask off at this point.
The Pleasure
Member
Twatter is the safe space of musk. Infact they made a song about him
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
funkygunther
Member
He needs all the help he can in trying to run a successful media platform. Or he's hoping Murdoch has forgotten about MySpace and wants to buy a fab social network for $44 billion.
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
Twitter is making even less from Twitter Blue than previously known
Even Tesla unsubscribed.
mashable.com
Falling subscriptions are probably better for overall engagement on the platform, at least. Because everyone knows to insta-block anyone with that blue check mark, as they're very likely to be unpleasant, and/or one of those insufferable members of the minuscule group locked in an intense parasocial relationship with Musk (well, I guess I'm being redundant here).
And I bet the reason so many users retain their checks to be counted for weeks to months after cancelling is because the engineers responsible are afraid of being fired for presenting reality to Space Karen.
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LegendOfKage
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That makes sense. There's always a bit of truth in these hit piece articles, wrapped up alongside all the bad-faith and hyperbole.
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Sonik
Member
The gargantuan news site known as platformer dot news might have been talking out of its ass????
The same site has another fair and balanced "news story" called Inside the Twitter Meltdown
Btw this story has been copy pasted by """""""""""""journalists"""""""""""""" all over the web, gee, I wonder why no one trust them anymore.
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LegendOfKage
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funkygunther
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Tams
Member
I honestly believe that Musk is dumb enough to believe that.
The Cockatrice
Member
This fucking idiot just paywalled a basic account security feature. Lmfao.
Raistandantulus
Member
100% of useful idiots unquestioningly trust and repost polls that favour their bias.
Sonik
Member
Journalists are protecting the status quo and poll companies are owned by the same rich fucks that own the media (sometimes they're the same company). If the polls are rigged they're certainly rigged in favor of journalists.
LegendOfKage
Member
Are you suggesting that Gallup polls are rigged? I think there's only two ways to question poll results, otherwise you ironically enough end up with conspiracy theory. The first is to question the wording of the question asked, which is provided by the poll results themselves in this situation. The second is to question the who was being asked and in what context. But that sort of intentional manipulation doesn't seem like it would be an issue with a Gallup poll, unless you're suggesting otherwise.
Gallup not reputable enough for you? How about all the other polls that show trust in journalism to be at some of the lowest levels in recorded US history?
Raistandantulus
Member
It's not that journalists are ideally protecting the status quo so much as the advanced civilizations they exist in and protecting journalistic standards of verification to have reality support their work. There needs to be legal oversight and ways of checking things to continually scrub corruption. The polls while condemning of opinions of those sources don't indicate where trust in twitter was before or now.
The trust that was developed with Twitter before the takeover, was erased by Musk's changes. There was an opportunity to make small changes and keep the established trust and work with it, but the scramble since his takeover burned a lot of trust as well as bridges that won't be easily, if ever, repaired. Twitter isn't completely useless for checking journalism, there's still legacy accounts that people trust, and for clips of events.
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thefool
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Raistandantulus
Member
It's not about direct manipulation during poll taking but the use of results. It doesn't indicate any trust in twitter. It points to an opportunity to build trust, one that twitter for years was learning and slowly taking advantage of, and there was an opportunity to build upon the trust people had for twitter and its system, however, while changing things dramatically and chaotically the last few months, that opportunity was squandered.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
26% of Americans work in the news apparently.
LegendOfKage
Member
And while I'm here, yes, I do think putting 2FA behind a paid service was a bad idea. Maybe not for Twitter, but certainly for the user experience. If it's an issue where it isn't secure, it shouldn't even be an option then.
It is pretty funny how Facebook is now going to have a paid verified feature, though.
Bragr
Member
What about the 74% of others who take news from blog sites?
Look at all the people in here who jump at Musk because of something they see on Twitter that is obvious bullshit.
People have no idea how to curate news, whatever they are following.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
He paywalled 2fa?
thefool
Member
While that is, most likely, a very relevant subject, that's not the question in the poll. The media eroded away its credibility and, a vast majority, recognizes its diminishing role and its misdealing actions. If the current alternative is not particularly credible (or positive, to use the poll nomenclature), it doesn't take away from the fundamental issue that is the discredit of news organizations.
chromhound
Member
Elon Musk is such a pussy lol. He wants freedom of speech until you say something against him lol
Bragr
Member
Well, the flipside to that is that the nature of the internet and the increase in information sources was always gonna destroy traditional news outlets no matter what. Since the nature of people is to piecemeal together information to what suits their bias, the entire information sphere will get bombarded with distrust, because when they hear something they agree with from one source, and see the big news outlets say anything else, they will go against the big outlets, even if there is just one thing they disagree with.
People absolutely love to have big targets "news is corrupt, politicians are always out for themselves, corporations are evil".
I think if they polled differently, they would find that all news sources as distrusted, not just the big famous ones.
The Cockatrice
Member
sms one
LegendOfKage
Member
People keep repeating this, yet there are loads of people on Twitter who are critical of Musk, many of them getting pretty hateful and insulting about it. The only ones who have been removed from the platform are generally the same ones who broke rules that have existed before he even bought twitter. As far as I'm aware, none of the actual rules have changed, just the edge-case enforcement.
If Musk bans someone who is critical of him, I'm sure there's another reason why that person was actually banned. Now, if you want to be critical of those bans, that's fine, but anything they did to get themselves banned you need to defend when ANYONE does that sort of thing. Does that seem fair?