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Fat_Trombonist

X is so close to Z


[deleted]

Y though?


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UnCommonCommonSens

Y is reserved for blyat!


selfishgenee

Oh, thanks, good reminder to delete account there


Crankover

Good, never had it now never will. Still alive and well.


HotStraightnNormal

X-billionaire would be better for everyone.


No-Split3620

And it keeps getting closer. Musk has gone from offering to fight Putin physically to being lauded as a great businessman by the mass murderer in the Kremlin.


Bleispucker_TV

Without X we would still cheer for a Nazi in the Canadian Parliament ... Oh, wait, that was also Russian misinformation too


JazzHands1986

Hey X? Y Z?


Fat_Trombonist

Said close, not next to.


JazzHands1986

I mean hey X? Why Z? Why align with terrorists?


Fat_Trombonist

X is a service the Russian disinformation is used to spread in.


JazzHands1986

I get that. It's formerly known as Twitter. So Twitter Y russia? Why associate with those punks? Which is what I meant by hey X! Y Z? It's obviously a terrible joke if I've got to explain it so much lol


BidRepresentative728

O?


jtthom

It’s why he chose it


Alternative-Film-155

x is gonna give it to ya


[deleted]

He dead bro


Human_Discipline_552

You could be talking about more than one rapper lol


DaGhostQc

Xzibit is still alive.


Human_Discipline_552

😂 you got me and I was tryna get someone else


Flannnno

DMX


Greyeye5

So is ~~twitter~~ sorry, “X”.


LegioRomana

Musk has this power because we give it to him. Stop clicking on X- shit today.


tiredoftheworldsbs

Its gonna die anyway. Just like that so called "Truth" lying conservative rag of an app/site.


JimmyTheG

And the super awesome "parler" app that conservative truth seekers were hyping up a few years ago


Independent-Bug-9352

It's well past the point of them caring. They've cast their drag net and now they have a massive right-wing echo-chamber. They don't care if anyone else leaves at this point. Such mold will fester and this is own radical right-wing extremism increases. Just how they took over talk radio.


recycl_ebin

musk's starlink has been monumental to aiding ukraine...


laughing_laughing

...until he suddenly cut it off in parts


recycl_ebin

you mean not turn it once during a midnight request from ukranians without the input of the united states, the country in which he's a citizen of?


laughing_laughing

I'm curious...do you acknowledge Crimea is part of Ukraine? Or no? I just don't get fanboys. He's not going to sleep with you.


recycl_ebin

>I'm curious...do you acknowledge Crimea is part of Ukraine? Or no? yes de jure >I just don't get fanboys. He's not going to sleep with you. you do society a disfavor by thinking anyone who disagrees with you just wants sex


dlec1

First he’s getting paid a shitload of money for its use & terminals, him trying to claim like it was donated is 💩 Second I wouldn’t put it past Elon to sell out whatever info he can glean in Ukraine to Putin. He’s done plenty to appease China


AbacusVile

He is OWNED ffs.


recycl_ebin

>First he’s getting paid a shitload of money for its use & terminals, him trying to claim like it was donated is 💩 he donated months of time, hundreds of millions to ukraine and now the us gov is paying him for use of the system. likewise just because he's getting paid doesn't absolve him of any credit, he's still choosing to support ukraine. >Second I wouldn’t put it past Elon to sell out whatever info he can glean in Ukraine to Putin do you have any evidence of this or is this just more baseless character assassination?


dlec1

How does Elons taint taste? Like Putin’s? Tell me about all the time & hundreds of millions? Surely you don’t mean the terminals he got paid for by EU & US? No one on Ukraine’s side I’d trying to defend Putin, what side are you on? Russian troll?


recycl_ebin

>How does Elons taint taste? Like Putin’s? you're disgusting. what's with the perpetual character attacks?


Mangled_Mini1214

Twitter was a dumpster before Comrade Musk lit it on fire. Now the nazi bots get promoted by twitters algorithm. I sincerely hope Twitter burns to the ground


IAmInTheBasement

So many of the people Musk interact with have either outright pro-RU stance or 'just stop the war already' peace ideas. Two people with those stances respectively are *journalist* (and I'm using that word VERY liberally) Ian Miles Cheong and VC-bro David Sacks.


m0nk_3y_gw

David Sacks was one of the friends that talked him into buying it. He went through with the deal so he wouldn't have to testify in court about messages to/from David Sacks, Peter Theil, and others. David, Peter and Elon go back a long ways - they were all part of the 'PayPal Mafia' (PayPal insiders that made $$$)


skinny-pugsley

Joe Rogan, with one of the highest viewerships on youtube, is constantly going off against support for Ukraine. Why somebody with that much money would be a Putin sock puppet escapes me.


BiggestFlower

With Musk doing things like renaming if X - possibly the shittest rebrand in history - it’s surely only a matter of time before it implodes like a home made submarine.


DeadliestStork

Hey too soon buddy. /s


Traditional-Fox-2477

Along with his satellites


jg3hot

This. Twitter was/is the main way for non-mainstream news to get distributed. Elon just makes it worse by refusing to allow censorship of fake news.


Rhinopkc

YESSSS! Censorship. The mark of every free society.


PeePeeOpie

Can you name a single country in the history of humanity that allows truly unfettered media to say/do whatever they liked? Honestly, just ONE example would suffice. Not even our constitution says all speech is protected, just that the government can’t persecute you, but it never says they can’t shut you up.


Rhinopkc

Really? That’s what it says? I disagree, but for the sake of this discussion and granting obvious exceptions like shouting fire in a crowded theater, etc., let me ask a few important questions. Granting your interpretation, who defines unacceptable speech, and who defines persecution? What standard do you want them to use?


LittleShopOfHosels

Answer the question you fucking pussy


Rhinopkc

Are you drunk, or 12 years old?


LittleShopOfHosels

A private company excerisicing its free speech... Actually kind of is. Are you high? It isn't censorship, it is twitters own free speech you potato.


Rhinopkc

Private company. Say it slow, it’s only two words. I know the concept of private property is hard to fathom for many people who claim to be for freedom, but it’s kind of important for freedom. If it’s mine, I can do what I want with it. So many that claim to be against Russia would be more in line with Soviet Russia’s ideas of private property and personal freedom. If Elon wants to censor everyone, that’s his right. If he wants a free-fire cesspit, also his right.


LittleShopOfHosels

That's literally what I was implying, and you were literally just bitching about, you absolutely fucking braindead monkey. Did you escape from a neuralink center recently? I'm sorry for the burdon you must have been to your parents. God damn.


Rhinopkc

I’m sorry for triggering you. Please seek help. Your parents should be able to find you someone.


Cool_As_Your_Dad

Puttin will keep pumping money into twitter to keep it going


PeePeeOpie

Why would they need Putin when they have Larry Ellison?


[deleted]

Why should he since Musk is footing the bill


Cool_As_Your_Dad

Because Russia is paying for a service to spread misinformation and musk wants in on the action. Why spend his own money when putin can pay?


[deleted]

Can you give me a credible source that Musk has received money from Russia in a transactional manner? Edit: since surely there must be a paper trail if this is the case?


Cool_As_Your_Dad

Lol. Like I have insights into his finance. All I know elon phoned puttin etc. So yea. You make your own conslusions


[deleted]

Making a conclusion without any evidence, is faulty. It's not true until it's proven, it might be also that Musk is doing it for free...


Cool_As_Your_Dad

I agree 110%. Muskrat might even do it to make choas


smogop

But he’s doing a much job on the CP front.


Electronic_Impact

and people fund it with a worthless checkmark. It's pathetic.


dont-mention-me

X to the Z


OrgJoho75

Y not?


WonderfulHat5297

Youtube has to be pretty high on that list too, its rife with it


PeePeeOpie

YouTube is far worse than X. I only watch history and gaming on my YouTube but I tried their “shorts” feature and instantly was bombarded with right wing talking points and fringe conspiracies. No other algorithms shoved it down my throat as quickly as YouTube did. I even made a point to specifically skip them as quickly as possible to cater my feed and it kept recommending it the next day.


egabayot

YouTube is definitely better than X, I agree with you on shorts, they’re garbage. But I feel like 99% of what’s coming out of X is genuinely useless


owdee00

And all kinds of other disinformation for that matter


G_Rapper

Bots and info manipulators from Russia out to sway elections and destroy the fabric of society with lies and doubt. Scammers and phishers from Africa and India working hard to steal your money by lying and cheating. Woke cancel-culture activists from the US ready to destroy people's reputations and livelihood at just a whiff of rumored /perceived indiscretion simply for holding different opinions and values than them. Indeed, X is the cesspool of humanity.


yngkmd3

The tumblr crowd had to end up somewhere


vegarig

On that note, [Tumblr's current opinion on former escaped-to-twitter trying to come back](https://i.redd.it/pbbiqkury7w81.jpg)


Fall-False

Twitter was censoring people before musk took it over at the direction of the government. True freedom of speech is not censoring anything.


FollowingBeginning67

Biggest social media platform has the most disinformation in it? No shit.


Independent-Bug-9352

Anyone remotely paying attention just not be surprised by this. Kremlin has the likes of Trump and the Republican party, along with several vulnerable egotistical billionaires deeply infiltrated. If you support Ukraine, vote Democrat.


Nacho-Kai

Twitter has always been a pool of disinformation


m0nk_3y_gw

Twitter started to the do the barest minimum of addressing misinformation. That triggered the right-wing into buying the platform to stop it.


ProfessionalRadio799

...Has the EU not heard of Telegram?


DamonFields

Twitter, the #1 purveyor of Kremlin propaganda, is now the Fox News of social media.


Aotearas

Nothing new, nor recent. I can only hope that the EU fines the crap out of Ole Musky for violating the Digital Services Act and with a bit of luck it will mean Musk pulling his platform out of the EU entirely because it's rather obvious that this fascist cockholster will do anything other than stop aiding and abetting other fascists. ​ edit:// Seems like the Musk fanboys/russian trollbots are out downvoting.


Frosty_Key4233

He needs to be made accountable


DraftedByTheMan

For what?


CostcoOptometry

Destroying the Russian space industry. Give him an award.


Frosty_Key4233

They Russians already did that themselves


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sporkhandsknifemouth

Or one where paid propagandists can put so much smoke in the air that no one can track down the bad ideas to debunk them due to the firehose of falsehoods method. The marketplace of ideas, it turns out, can be gamed without regulation, and there is an abundance of motivation for gaming it.


IAmRoot

Yeah, it's when money gets mixed in where the problems arise. The rights to all the capital that's used to actually get one's messages out there are very far from equal. It's like everyone having the right to own a private jet. If transportation infrastructure is pushed to make jet travel the only practical mode of transportation, sure, everyone would still have the right to travel in the most technical and theoretical sense, but little ability to actually do so. That's basically what's happening with the centralization of media into a few large corporations. All the climate change disinformation, pro-Russian propaganda, etc. on YouTube, X, etc. doesn't exist organically. It's all massively influenced by Russian oligarchs, oil oligarchs, etc. ability to buy manufactured speech on a massive scale.


Rhinopkc

Echo chamber. Like this one? Every online community turns into an echo chamber of some sort. People naturally have confirmation bias. It is hilarious to read people slamming twitter for supposedly spreading propaganda, yet the same people never made a peep about the Steele dossier, or any of that obviously fake Russian propagand. Instead, it is just a shoulder shrug, and sweep it under the rug. If you’re going to flip out and call for heads over misinformation, we should a;; start with the politicians and influencers closest to our viewpoint, and work outward, so we at least have some semblance of integrity.


rocksp1der

r UkraineRussiaReport is going to be so jealous. They really put in a lot of effort into their little circlejerk


N4R4B

No surprise. If you look at any comment in a tweet positive about Ukraine, then you will understand the huge disinformation efforts used by Russia. They all gravitate around the war, vaccine conspiracy, and the corruption of democrats in the USA. You will never see a conspiracy about Republicans published and promoted by state actors on X.


Deluge69

I will never ever buy a Zesla!


DraftedByTheMan

I love my Model Y


Bovinae_Elbow

I also enjoy my Tesla.


Organic_Heron1032

Look no further, we have found a troll


CostcoOptometry

Better to have a Tesla made in America than to spend thousands on oil propping up oil prices that finance Russia.


alaskared

We don't get our oil from Russia.


CostcoOptometry

I recommend you watch a video about economics.


Mindless-Succotash48

Russia's oil market is all but dried up now. Their last 2 big customers (India and China) are keeping it afloat but that won't last long. The USNavy protects the shipping lanes from piracy but that is going to fade away as we disengage from being world cops. That and idle pipelines don't come back on line that easily without western tech. I'm waiting for Detroit to come out with a reliable electric car just to avoid feeding Musk.


ogsfcat

They did, they stopped selling it 3 years ago.


Mindless-Succotash48

I'll wait 'em out. TBH, I don't drive a lot anyway. I'm halfway through a fill up I got back in March. For all I need I could get a used elec golf cart and be happy.


SpaceProspector_

Sure, but there are other options than a Tesla to achieve that goal, many of which are also manufactured in America. Ford, GM, Chevy all make electric models domestically. Then there are the startups like Rivian, Fisker, Lucid, Aptera. Lots of choices that don't involve putting money in Musk's pockets.


CostcoOptometry

Other “options” that cost $10-20k more for the same car, so you’re putting money into the hands of evil shareholders.


SpaceProspector_

There are several electric vehicles priced below $30,000. Tesla's least expensive Model 3 variant is $40,000. Tesla also takes more profits per sale than any other American brand, so by buying from any of them less of my money ends up with those 'evil shareholders'.


Organic_Heron1032

As long as the car and batteries are made in the USA I congratulate the acquisition but I cannot share the same enthusiasm for Musk seeing what he has become


errorexe3

Which comes as a surprise to no one :/


Cool_As_Your_Dad

Not surprised


vvarlock71

I agree, I stopped looking at it


thinkB4WeSpeak

Not surprising, nothing on X is vetted. It's basically the wild west of social media


Etherindependance5

I dropped that stank when when “Alvin bot head“ bought it out! No regrets.


BigMeanBalls

That's not a fair characterization. X is the biggest outlet of ALL disinformation.


UnfairAd7220

Boy. Musk buying Twitter has made a lot of people mad.


ogsfcat

You have to realize who uses twitter. It is mostly journalists, politicians and athletes talking smack to each other. And it became a completely left wing echo chamber for sometime. So of course that makes it the most important safe-space in history. So for the very important people foolish enough to get news from Twitter this matters. For the other 99.9999% of the world, nothing of value has been lost.


Side_of-beef

Can we cut out the musk spam plz? I could give less of a shit, and Ukraine has praised him up and down its armchair warriors up in arms.


Gilbertmountain1789

Okay.. Elon shutdown Star-link in Ukraine. Stupid game EU.


New_Horse3033

Right and everyone knows what a stellar champion of righteous info the EU is. Will the EU still defend all the rhetoric it used selecting Russia as it's single source for energy needs? ​ If no Nord stream pipeline would there be war in Ukraine today?


[deleted]

Yes. Putins imperialist fantasies always involved attacking ukraine. Whether kinetically. Or government rigging.


New_Horse3033

lol No Nord stream = all gas goes through Ukraine. War in Ukraine equates to a Russia self-sanction, Putin is stupid but he's not crazy.


[deleted]

Gas is still moving through Russian pipelines that pre existed in Ukrainr into Europe.


New_Horse3033

I didn't want to believe this but now after a quick search I know this to be a fact. If I were Ukraine I'd shut this down asap if I wanted continued US support. It is too much temptation to keep a Democrat or GOP Joe Biden political opponent from using this to attack him.


[deleted]

what the fuck are you talking about. this isn't some conspiracy. The pipelines have not been destroyed by Ukraine , because despite them having every reason to, the Ukrainians don't want to commit a hostile act towards EU Member Hungary. There are still members of the EU who are purchasing Russian gas and/or oil, and the Russians and Ukrainians are avoiding fighting near the pipelines because the Russians need the money and the political influence over its good little puppets like Hungary's Fidesz party, and Ukraine needs to not piss off the EU. despite how rogue some of its members are its not a secret, everyone is aware of what is going on. except you apparentley. the Ukrainians would love to blow it up, but currentley, they can't


New_Horse3033

>Hungary's energy needs are paid by EU/US coffers & Ukrainian blood, that needs to end. Hungary's Fidesz party are betting things are going back to the way things were before the war. Those are literately a pipe dream, Hungary is hindering Putin's appointment with a mob w/pitchforks, flame torches and a lamppost.


Bovinae_Elbow

It’s as if all news sources have become shit.


CoeusSaxon

Lol was it different before Elon?


Side_of-beef

Nope


dlec1

Twitter pre Elon? Definitely was much better. Was it perfect, no. Elon basically released all the prisoners back in to society. Now they’re out doing their social media hate speech again & it certainly isn’t better than it was before then for the normal people.


CoeusSaxon

Hate speech? I was referring to the mention of disinformation


dlec1

Sorry I misunderstood, disinformation was still a problem with pre Elon twitter, but it’s definitely worse now.


[deleted]

Looks like the Russians own Musk as well.


Youcandoit007

X appears an admirer of dictatorships. It is so close to Z


RIP_COD

Who cares only low iq socially isolated "humans" use twitter for discussions and idea exchange. News and event info is a different game.


dlec1

I swear that piece of shit Elmo is a Russian agent, the US government should take twitter, Tesla, starlink, space x, etc & send him packing. It would be a good lesson for the rest of them to choose better friends


Melodic-Medium-5808

Odd that musk defends disinformation as free speech and while censoring factual speech.


dlec1

Not just that but he’s censored Ukrainians & let’s Russian disinformation run rampant.


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Traditional-Fox-2477

You want variation? Fuck off and find some then!


GuillotineComeBacks

For some reason that's the wrong thread, I was planning to comment on medvedev saying we are nazis....


m3kw

Misinfo Per post or by number, wouldn’t be fair without as a percentage


RottenHairFolicles

Hopefully it will go bankrupt soon and decompose as the pile of shit that site is.


RepulsiveRooster1153

Musk is a Russian spy. How do you think he got so wealthy? By being smart?


resonant_interval

on fb, a group exists, named "Elon Musk is a Philip K Dick Villain" ... title such fitting


[deleted]

Its ok, nobody uses X any more.


fadufadu

Musk and Putin sitting in a tree…


Crankover

Musk trying to kill the goose that lays his golden eggs... the West. Smart people usually have serious blind spots.


supercali45

Muskrat is a Russian asset … loves facist dictators— would blow Kim Jun Un if allowed to


JazzHands1986

Shocking news..... not! Of course, Musk is pimping out all the russian propaganda X can handle. He's got some kind of massive business deal in the works with russia, most likely or already has tons of money invested in the country. Or he could just be a really shitty human being, but I tend to think he's just power-hungry and greedy. He's also got a massive ego that needs constant feeding.


jdogdarkness

**shocking!!...** just kidding, duh. Musk is a crypto-fascist & he DEFINETLY simps for Putin historically, & i would argue even still to this day he soft simps.


BibleBeltAtheist

Here's a copy of the [Article](https://www.deccanherald.com/world/musks-x-is-biggest-outlet-of-russia-disinformation-eu-says-2701503) without having to register. Elon Musk’s X was cited as the biggest outlet for peddlers of disinformation as the European Union urged Silicon Valley platforms to step up their vigilance to combat Russia’s “war of ideas.” European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said platforms need to act ahead of national and European elections over the next year. “This is a multi-million euro weapon of mass manipulation aimed both internally at the Russians as well as Europeans and the rest of the world,” Jourova told reporters Tuesday. “The very large platforms must address this risk. Especially that we have to expect that the Kremlin and others will be active before our European elections.” The EU released reports on how each of the major tech companies, including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, are faring in the battle against disinformation. Most of the major platforms agreed to work with the EU on a voluntary code of conduct, which aims to set industry standards for fact-checking and other measures. The bloc also performed a pilot project to gauge the extent of the problem. “X, former Twitter, who is not under the code any more, is the platform with the largest ratio of mis- or disinformation posts,” Jourova said. “The pilot also showed that disinformation actors were found to have significantly more followers than their non-disinformation counterparts and tend to have joined the platform more recently than non-disinformation users.” She noted several steps taken by platforms to combat Russian influence. Google told the bloc that it terminated more than 400 channels involved in Russian influence operations in the first four months of the year. Meta, meanwhile, said it expanded fact-checking partnerships in 22 languages in the EU. The EU’s new law regulating content on platforms, called the Digital Services Act, went into effect last month.  “As Twitter has been designated as a very large online platform, of course there are obligations given by hard law,” Jourova said. “So, my message to Twitter is you have to comply with hard law and we are watching what you are doing.” Jourova also said the influx of Russian disinformation is particularly acute in Slovakia, which holds elections on Saturday. “Slovakia has been chosen as the country where there is fertile ground for success of the Russian pro-Kremlin, pro-war narratives,” she said, adding that Facebook and Google have taken some steps to augment their efforts to fight fake information after pressure from the EU. “The election this week will be a test case because the approach to Russian war in Ukraine is a divisive line.”


[deleted]

The sprinter team being probably the biggest disseminators of Russian disinformation. Originally the account was posing as a single individual but it was obvious it was being run by multiple people, now it’s out in the open because there’s nothing stopping them


[deleted]

The Russians will never pay $8 a month. Never… unless they can use all the stolen funds from their hacking bot net.


jdcerob

Luckily in Slovakia it is Facebook as boomers are too stupid to install and register on X


Lost_Emu7405

Who even does twitter anymore?


takes_joke_literally

Musk's X sounds too much like Musk sex. Just sayin


Foreign_Aid

They want to censor everything. I have to make strategic decisions for my company. I need real information, not propaganda. Fuck them


New_Horse3033

The difference between Russian disinformation and reality is the reason Ukraine is getting & will continue to receive worldwide support. Let Putlers spew lies like a farmer fertilizing a field and watch Russia's enemies list grow like weeds. Public forum "minders" have no place in a free & open society. Slava Ukraine