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Re:Own-Goal Football (2022) on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:21PM (#36154345)
Re:Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:08AM (#36059202)
> In another analysis, prominent climatologist Katharine Hayhoe monitored responses to a tweet on climate change that she published twice, as an experiment, on separate dates before and after Musk’s takeover.

> She counted the hostile comments and examined them for signs they came from bots – automated accounts that researchers say are pushing mass misinformation.

> Inauthentic accounts can be identified by analysis tools such as Bot Sentinel.

> Replies from apparent trolls or bots increased 15 to 30 times over a two-month period compared with the previous two years, Hayhoe tweeted in January 2023.

> in the past few months, since the takeover and changes at Twitter, the amount, vituperativeness, and intensity of abuse has skyrocketed

Re:Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network (The Atlantic) on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:13PM (#36051498)
> Now the site itself has unquestionably transformed under his leadership into an alternative social-media platform—one that offers a haven to far-right influencers and advances the interests, prejudices, and conspiracy theories of the right wing of American politics.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230523210556/https://www.theat...

Re:Elon Musk will kill his own ‘everything app’ on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:05PM (#36048321)
> Three barriers exist for Musk to succeed with his “X” idea. The first is, people outside of Asia don’t like “super apps.”

>Second, as I’ve detailed before, Musk is proving incompetent about media, both social and mainstream.

>And third, Elon Musk is becoming too reviled a person to succeed with an app that works only if nearly everyone buys into it.

>Musk seems to be embracing increasingly radical views — the kind one gets from trolls, shitposters and Russian disinformation agents on 4chan.

Re:The proto-fascism of Elon Musk on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:06PM (#36006272)
Anything that can be done regarding this? Imagine if Paul Graham was defending a white supremacist murderer or spread anti-Semitic rhetoric or saying things were psyops conspiracies, would that be quickly outlawed and flagged here?
Re:The proto-fascism of Elon Musk on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:03PM (#36006228)
Exactly, just see the brainwashed masses who believe in Qanon conspiracy, which Trump and Musk both amplify. It's an alternate reality.
Re:The proto-fascism of Elon Musk on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:00PM (#36006197)
He has started embracing white supremacists, far right politicians and even qanon conspiracy theories. it's a terrifying and dangerous situation for something as influential as social media (as if it wasn't bad enough)
It's sad that Musk has been radicalized. It's ok to admit it.he can't accept the fact the Texas shooter is a white supremacist.
Re:Elon Musk Just Can’t Stop Posting Antisemitic Tweets on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:57PM (#35997209)
> Musk also responded to tweets spreading other Soros conspiracy theories, including false claims that Soros, a Holocaust survivor, helped roundup Jews for the Nazis, and claims that Soros is somehow linked to the Rothschilds, an entirely separate antisemitic conspiracy theory about Jewish bankers which the Soros’ conspiracies have largely replaced.
> The Twitter owner has turned into a full-fledged right-wing conspiracy theorist
Re:When a Shitposter Runs a Social Media Platform on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:21PM (#35967247)
> Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter is forcing us to come to terms with a new reality: a social media platform where the person running it is himself spreading the misinformation.
That's not even close to the main issue. The issue is he is spreading false stories involving far right-wing conspiracies, in this case involving neo-nazis
> Responding to a tweet that referred to this fact as a “psyop” — short for a psychological operation, usually employed by counterintelligence military personnel — Musk said it was indeed “the weirdest story ever or a very bad psyop!”
> Axios has learned that Carlson and Elon Musk had a conversation about working together, but didn't discuss specifics.

Oh, how easily Elon Musk was radicalized.

Anything for iOS?
Re:Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:10PM (#35547726)
Not when i checked an hour ago. in expert mode.

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=cd799e4b-5a4a-4dc3-9e85-e...

and if you do it right now with all 3 modes selected, it's still not correct https://www.phind.com/search?cache=21f0ce1a-b741-4088-bcf5-2...

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