That sounds like a hair split that a few dozen lawyers will spend 18 months and a few million dollars of Musk's money figuring out
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It isn't at all splitting hairs. It will cost them nothing because all the relevant parties already know this. Google and Apple aren't threatening to kick Twitter off of things, silly people on the internet reached that incorrect conclusion entirely on their own.
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Elon Musk trying to out-crazy James Woods. It's not a cage they need to fight in, it's a padded cell.
I swear to God, Elon Musk is the guy in high school who slipped and fell in the hallway, then tried to play it off as inventing a new dance move.LOL
How did he post this tweet and not stop one moment to think about how his own experience on the platform will be?
Elon Musk isn't exactly concerned with the complexities of life, and I wouldn't go so far as to call him self aware.
Ego. He believes they adore him, so blocking is performative punishment with the intent to show them how much they should hate the function. "Where will they be without their generous god?"
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There are rumors going around that there's a particular substance Elon may be abusing that's contributing to his behavior.
And I'm not horsing around when I say that.
And I'm not horsing around when I say that.
His own experience probably won't change, I wouldn't put it past him to keep a private Block feature for his own account.
Hopefully he can overdose on that substance and expire. Elon would not be missed. Fanatics don't count.
He's just hoping to get disqualified from cage fighting.
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Elon Musk to strip headlines off news links on Twitter in latest overhaul
Move by the billionaire owner of the social media site may be an attempt to drive up subscription of the app’s premium service
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No. It's a move to boost disinformation. The links used to show the sources, letting people filter at first glance what comes from reliable, respected, reference sources and what came from foxnews, stormfront or whatnot. Now, the "info" is presented at the same level of credibility wherever it comes from, leaving people with an equal doubt or engagement, an equal cognitive imprint at the important first contact (before investigation). This benefits solely the most dishonest, manipulative sources, increases their visibility (people will have to pay them attention if only to identify them, agreeing to the demanded "hear me out") at the expense of what Musks fights : reference journalism and reality.
It's a mere boost for political manipulation and demagoguery, what Musk and fascists in general are all about.
No, the move is an attempt to make journalists post at least headline and blurb on twitter directly instead of just posting a link. Which means that twitter "owns" that headline and blurb and the journalist is publishing news content on twitter. That is also why it is mentioned in connection with content creator compensation. The supposed endgame is that the whole articles are on twitter because journalists abandon the papers to have more reach on the platform.
It is incredibly fishy and won't work.
It can be both. Musk has already shown some rather preferential treatment of who gets content creator compensation, and how much. I see no reason why the same would not apply to journalists publishing on twitter.
It would. That is why it will fail.
Honestly, the "creator compensation" funds were only a couple of million worldwide. That is basically nothing per creator, not even a significant number per creator with a million followers or whatever. There were a couple of big payouts, but math dictates that those were nothing but publicity stunts. And unsurprisingly those seemed to be handpicked by Musk from his favorites.
Honestly, the "creator compensation" funds were only a couple of million worldwide. That is basically nothing per creator, not even a significant number per creator with a million followers or whatever. There were a couple of big payouts, but math dictates that those were nothing but publicity stunts. And unsurprisingly those seemed to be handpicked by Musk from his favorites.