Elon Musk’s pledge to make Twitter (or “X”) a free-speech-friendly “digital town square” has been brought into question following reports that the social media account of a leading AfD politician and MEP has been shadowbanned.
Elon Musk sues anti-hate speech group whose chief he calls a ‘rat’
Elon Musk is suing a non-profit organisation that campaigns against hate speech weeks after he called its British chief executive “a rat”.
Musk’s Twitter, or X Corp, accuses the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of using flawed methods to promote “misleading narratives” and of running a “scare campaign” that has driven away advertisers from the platform.
It is a certainty that any group describing itself as anti-hate or anti-racist is in fact hateful and racist.
Elon Musk has launched X to kill Twitter
It will trash the brand. It will alienate its core users. And relaunching and rebranding a failing business almost never works. As Elon Musk drops the Twitter blue bird and swaps it for an X, we will hear plenty of arguments about why the world’s second richest man has made another critical commercial mistake. In fairness, some of them have a point. Yet Musk’s critics are making a mistake by missing the real purpose of the new name. X only exists to kill off Twitter.
Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation
False and misleading posts about the Ukraine conflict continue to go viral on major social media platforms, as Russia’s invasion of the country extends beyond 500 days.
Some of the most widely shared examples can be found on Twitter, posted by subscribers with a blue tick, who pay for their content to be promoted to other users.
Musk: ‘Cisgender’ and ‘Cis’ Are Now Considered Slurs on Twitter
If you’ve ever engaged with a proponent of radical leftist ideology, you’ve probably experienced having your opinions dismissed because you’re a “cisgendered” person. It’s an awful lot like how, once upon a time, men’s opinions on abortion were summarily dismissed by the pro-abortion crowd because “men can’t get pregnant.”
Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue
Elon Musk recently said Twitter’s advertising business was on the upswing. “Almost all advertisers have come back,” he asserted, adding that the social media company could soon become profitable.
But Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier, according to an internal presentation obtained by The New York Times. The company has regularly fallen short of its U.S. weekly sales projections, sometimes by as much as 30 percent, the document said
We Should Stop Believing Elon Musk Is Committed To Free Speech At Twitter
Many on the right heralded Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter as a major victory in the culture war. But that celebration appears premature. On June 1, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing wrote that Twitter had scuttled a deal for the conservative multimedia outlet to screen its massively popular documentary “What Is A Woman?” on the social media site.
Twitter hinders ‘troll hunters’ battling climate denial
For years, a band of science-loving “troll hunters” hounded climate change deniers off Twitter — but Elon Musk’s takeover has upended their efforts, with many ousted accounts back, pushing fresh disinformation.
Despite the threat climate change poses to the planet, disinformation about it has gone largely unsanctioned on Twitter. But a secretive global community of about 25 scientists and activists, calling themselves Team Ninja Trollhunters (TNT), found a roundabout way to tackle it.
Meet the woman who’s going to restore Twitter to its shittier self
Who is Linda Yaccarino, Twitter’s ‘superwoman’?
Ad sales executive Linda Yaccarino commands widespread respect in the industry. Will that be enough at Twitter?
Why would someone want to leave a plum post as head of advertising at one of America’s biggest media companies to take a chance leading Twitter, a social media platform with a spotty business record and an infamously mercurial owner?
Marketing veteran Lou Paskalis, who has known Linda Yaccarino for more than two decades, has a theory.
“She’s someone who really likes to be superwoman,” he says, describing her as fierce, shrewd and ambitious. She would jump at the chance, he says, “to step in… and say, ‘I can fix this'”.
I bet she approves of the Bud Light and Target groomer campaigns.
Twitter Files Show Platform Let Foreign Gov’t Dictate Who to Censor
Many shocking reports of Australia’s draconian COVID-19 lockdown measures have come out over the last couple of years but the latest “Twitter Files Extra” show how far those measures went online.
The new supplemental Twitter files centered around the “The Covid Censorship Requests of Australia’s Department of Home Affairs (DHA)” and reportedly helped confirm a report by The Australian. Andrew Lowenthal, author of the Network Affects Substack, tweeted that The Twitter Files team “found 18 DHA emails, collectively requesting 222 tweets be removed.”
NO THANKS: New Twitter CEO Once Pushed Elon Musk to Reinstate Orwellian ‘Influence Council’
Twitter owner Elon Musk’s newly appointed World Economic Forum-tied CEO for the platform recently tried to corner him into committing to reinstalling some of the same Orwellian censorship structures of the old regime. Gee, what a shocker (sarcasm).
Twitter went from great to very shitty to less shitty and now it looks to be headed back to very shitty.
Bad birdie! Twitter-faithful reject Musk’s CEO
Twitter users are a resilient bunch of customers. They spent the best part of a decade living under the increasingly totalitarian regime of Big Tech and its ‘community guidelines’. Entire systems of language trickery had to be created to navigate the censorial landscape where dissenters were not only assaulted by shadowy algorithms, users were erased. Never was this practice more depraved than Twitter’s removal of Big Pharma victims for the crime of reporting their injuries to the world.
The return of bad Twitter.
Elon Musk‘s Choice for Twitter CEO Is NBC Advertising Exec and World Economic Forum Chair Linda Yaccarino
Elon Musk has reportedly chosen Linda Yaccarino, a seasoned media executive, World Economic Forum chairperson, and coronavirus vaccination campaign creator, to lead Twitter hoping to bring stability to the platform that has been recently characterized by turbulence and controversy.