So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

Hilarious how Musk tries to blame a "DDOS attack" for technical issues with the same stream where Trump compliments him on how great he is at cutting staff

That sort of nonsense would probably fly in America where workers have far less rights than here. Glad to see the Irish courts slap them down.

I think the tide is going out on all that Musk/Trump/Joe Rogan/Peterson type bollocks. Great to see.
Now tax the absolute shíte out of billionaires and hold them fully accountable for the harm their companies can cause society.

With this thread been buggy, I stuck my nose into the trump thread last night instead of posting here.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-elon-musk-donald-trump-interview-thierry-breton-letter-social-media/

• Europe’s chief digital official faces fire for “interfering” in U.S. election.
• BRUSSELS — The European Union's top digital enforcer tried to take on Elon Musk. Within hours, he faced accusations of meddling in American politics and his own staff were back-pedalling hard.
• The Frenchman, for instance, did not inform Commission President Ursula von der Leyen about the public letter to Musk ahead of its publication on X, according to a Commission spokesman.
• “The EU is not in the business of electoral interference,” said one of those officials. “DSA implementation is too important to be misused by an attention-seeking politician in search of his next big job.”

Because that letter got criticized allot, with multiple retweets (16k as of time of this post), and with the letter been called out as foreign interference in US politics. Which the EU itself is trying to bring in laws 'European Democracy Shield' to counter it.

"The EU needs its own dedicated structure for countering foreign information manipulation and interference.” ~ VDL

The Ball is in the EU Commision hands now, so it is a wait and see until next month. When the new EU commissioners are formed!

Oh! Also doxed myself on the thread with my twitter account when I posted a poll.

@Sigma101 pimping your own twitter account?

@brickster69 Thanks for confirming my post (from politico) with a more reputable source (ft.com). Wondering if both spoke to the same EU Commission personnel?

Main take away: - "On Tuesday the European Commission denied that Breton had approval from its president Ursula von der Leyen to send the letter."

I wonder what position he will now be getting in the EU Commision now, or is he a scapegoated for not well planned out timing of the issuing of the letter, given the amount of feedback they got?

@Harika I will try that the next time it happens, but reported in 'Bugs' thread, it happens to other threads as well. I'm not the only person to experience the bug. When threads cross the new page it takes at least 4 new posts in the page for the thread to unlock the page. On very active threads it probably goes unnoticed.

Elon Musk has clearly made Twitter immeasurably worse with his hands off approach to the racists and conspiracy theorists. It's actually worse than that though. It's not just the case that people are allowed to post pretty much whatever vile and false content that they want, Musk's Twitter actively incentivizes them to do so. That's because when people sign up to Twitter Blue they can become eligible to receive payments from Twitter if they "drive engagement".

In other words if they can get a lot of viral tweets or tweets with a lot of comments then they can earn money. What drives engagement more than anything on social media? Anger, fear and resentment. What we now have is a cottage industry of grifters who are making it their business to post inflammatory things in the hope that they get lots of angry replies and quote tweets. If you go to any tweet on pretty much any topic you will see that the comments underneath (which show Twitter Blue accounts first, by design) will feature accounts that have very few actual followers tweeting out awful things. These people are basically on a fishing expedition.

Essentially he has monetised trolling. The only bright spot is that apparently the actual payments have fallen off a cliff from the early days. You can actually see some of these accounts complaining about how their monthly payments have dropped off severely.

Trump is still posting his rants on Truth Social whereas his Twitter account appears to have ceased posting again (apart from a couple of posts linking to his talk with Musk yesterday).

Here's a fresh rant from this morning

I suspect that he doesn't even have Twitter on his own personal phone.

Logged in for the first time in ages. It’s all fighting videos, US culture war politics and far-right accounts for me. And my account would have been curated around restaurants, sport and science. Just a cesspit. Will be closing it tonight once I export my bookmarks. Dangerous site ran by a dangerous man.