The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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Colonel_Klinck said:
Why would he do this?

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Twitter restores suicide-prevention hotline feature after outcry

Top official confirms feature was removed but only temporarily, following Reuters report that prompted criticism of Elon Musk
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Twitter has restored a feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from users and consumer safety groups.

The feature, known as #ThereIsHelp, placed a banner at the top of search results for certain topics, listing contacts for support organizations in many countries related to mental health, HIV, vaccines, child sexual exploitation, Covid-19, gender-based violence, natural disasters and freedom of expression.

Reuters said on Friday the feature had been taken down this week. Citing two people familiar with the matter, the report said the removal was ordered by the social media platform’s owner, Elon Musk.

After publication of the story, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, confirmed the removal but said it was temporary.

“We have been fixing and revamping our prompts. They were just temporarily removed while we do that,” Irwin said in an email to Reuters.
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Musk then denied the feature had been removed, and called the Reuters report “fake news”.
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StriderX said:
Twitter polls are about as far from representative as you can get as Elon himself has said there are botfarms specifically voting against him so it can't be trusted per his own criticism.

The duopoly that is Muskian truth is very intriguing.
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Voting with or against depending on the vote. I did see him complaining when the Trump and amnesty votes went his way. Only when the CEO vote happened was there suddenly bots. Kind of reminds me of a certain orange man and soft video filter woman who claim there is fraud when they lose. He really is embracing his inner Republican.
 
I wonder if that's the server that he apparently tweeted about "unplugging a critical server" earlier...
Either that or one of the remaining staff who has the guts to stand up to him managed to point out that the social media platforms are already under massive pressure due to the distribution of pro self harm material on them, and that the reason twitter had that system in place was because (like many such things) it was the bare, legal minimum twitter could do to at least try and reduce their legal and legislative exposure.

Apparently he's looking at shutting down several of Twitters distributed data centres because they're "not needed" and plans to have them shut by the end of the first quarter 2023, which I've seen described as "ambitious" given apparently normally it takes months to just plan to do such a thing in an orderly manner and to test to make sure it doesn't break too many things (whilst putting a hold on any other changes).
This is at the same time he's apparently looking at doing things like encouraging longer video clips on twitter, something that is going to use a lot more storage and bandwidth.

I'm guessing he's looked at the fact they're "under utilised" and don't "work hard enough" without realising that there are very good reasons to maintain a lot of "excess capacity" and have it spread out (and from what I've read Tesla's IT infrastructure is or has been historically poor due to lack of redundancy).

The more I read of him/see of his actions the more i'm starting to wonder if he's a Boss from the BOFH stories, and not one of the ones that learns before being introduced to the lifts or the carpet in the basement.
 
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Republicans have the sads because they're still getting banned. They think it's because they opposed Zelensky's speech, and they've concluded the FBI is secretly working with Twitter to censor them.

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Utterly mental. Can we start calling it Twitter Derangement Syndrome?
 
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So tiring seeing statements like that presented as absolute truth with no justification other than they have a suspicion that suits their narrative.

My (unrealistic and impossible to implement) solution; anything posted while there’s no direct evidence that the statement is true should have the “I think that” prefix added.

Makes such a difference, and will at least makes people a bit more likely to question what they read.
 
deusexlumina said:
So tiring seeing statements like that presented as absolute truth with no justification other than they have a suspicion that suits their narrative.

My (unrealistic and impossible to implement) solution; anything posted while there’s no direct evidence that the statement is true should have the “I think that” prefix added.

Makes such a difference, and will at least makes people a bit more likely to question what they read.
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Then ALL musks posts and all the other right wing alt fact nutters tweets would have to start with that.
 
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Edit: looks like the data is from before Musk was in charge and has since been patched, but still, what a headache
 
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Sankari said:
Musk: 'I will eliminate all the bots!'

Musk fanbois: 'He has eliminated all the bots!'

Reality:

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Easily denied by the herpderps:

The tweets are fake
The analysis is fake
The bots are fake
The bots were created by the left
The bots were created by antifa
The bots are Larping
The MSM
The democrats
The...
 
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I'm surprised all the social media sites just give up and have some sort of 'proof' of who you are. i.e passport, ID, phone number, business details upload e.t.c. It won't stop them fully but it will certainly cut down on spam.

I bet this will come to stop the fake accounts in such mass amounts.

Personally I would welcome such a move of some sort of 'proof' that you say you are who you are.
 
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