Playing fast and loose with the term ‘news organization’ I see.
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Elon Musk Says Apple Has 'Fully Resumed' Advertising on Twitter
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Return recommendations are encouraged…worthy of it’s own thread.
Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 is an outstanding Stalin bio. It doesn’t get much better than Kotkin.
interested in hearing the list of your "go to" news sources
I think your points are great but isn’t the sole idea behind social media consumption that the consumer lives in a bubble constantly confirming whatever bias they have? Twitter is not a tool for debate it seems but a tool for one to preach to those unwilling to listen to differing opinions in the first place.
Yes and no I would say. One can definitely choose to remain isolated in an echo chamber of their own ideas, but allowing everyone to have a voice on the platform can allow everyone to seek out differing ideas if they are open to it. True liberalism is being open to listening to differing ideas and being tolerant of them. Twitter is just an open space to put out the ideas, there can be good debates if they allow for it. There can also be groups more apt to wanting to silence any dissenting idea to their own ideology, these are the fringe left and right.
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So "supporting free speech" now means you must advertise on certain platforms and if you don't you are not supporting free speech?
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I hate to tell you, man, but by this definition – unless YOU personally are also advertising on Twitter – that means you don't support free speech.
The Hill and Politico. I have no need for TV outrage manufacturers like Tucker Carlson to tell me what to think or how to feel.
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1. Musk went to Cook. Cook is Musk’s biggest client on Twitter. Musk needs the ad income.
2. Cook “looks” uncomfortable? That’s your dataset? Cook always looks like that in the presence of morons like Trump and Musk and brain dead reporters looking for clickbait sound bites.
Seriously? You are calling him a fascist because.... The guy that has brought USA back into the space race with Spacex, brought internet to front line troops in Ukraine, played a leading role in the EV race, put USA ahead in battery development...and not to mention brought payment alternatives through his former company that became paypal, but you call him random names because you don't like what he has done with twitter in the first month of ownership?
Please tell us your feats and political changes you have made with your company. Tell us how you have saved lives in Ukraine.
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Umm, fascism entails forceable suppression of opposition, so Elon running Twitter is less fascism not more.
Twitter isn’t pioneering free speech on the internet, it was the default up until no one wanted to be liable for the actions of the dregs of humanity organizing on their sites. In case you all forgot about it, 4chan is still such a place, and the discussions aren’t even limited to a hundred characters, so you can go there and see how all the “good debates” go, and what a site looks like with hands-off moderation. Ever since all the worlds school shooters, actual neonazi groups, pedophiles and angry 13yo psychopaths called it home, it serves as the premiere destination for the libertarian dream of a free marketplace of ideas. As Twitter becomes a more household version of that, I’ll look forward to seeing “sponsored by Apple” on the banner next to the incest porn ads.
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and probably showed him some of the applechina related twitterfiles.. Cook couldn't open his apple coffers fast enough.
It may be small, but my company spent $50k on Twitter ads this year. Depending on how the economy goes we might increase spending this next year.
I have a Twitter account, but rarely go to it. I just find it's a bunch of people whining about other people.
Those are the breadth of your news collection? There must be more. Care to share?
Were they banned because they were conservative... or because of their fascist or racist behavior?
AFAIK, people don't get banned because of their political affiliation. It's words and actions that lead to bans (i.e. consequences)
According to this thread it looks like anything the DNC or Biden campaign didn't like was banned:
Not so sure it will be moderation as usual. He has let a lot of users who were banned out of political bias by executives and has actually starting removing the kiddie pron the previous leadership ignored and he dropped the dime on how Twitter covers for Hunter Biden and the laptop. I think its Apple realizing it's looking like a CCP tool and cannot continue to have good business in the US while he suppresses free speech here in the US and works with China to oppress protestors.