- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
In the spring of 2020, when President Donald J. Trump wrote messages on Twitter warning that increased reliance on mail-in ballots would lead to a “rigged election,” the platform ran a corrective, debunking his claims.
“Get the facts about mail-in voting,” a content label read. “Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud,” the hyperlinked article declared.
This month, Elon Musk, who has since bought Twitter and rebranded it X, echoed several of Mr. Trump’s claims about the American voting system, putting forth distorted and false notions that American elections were wide open for fraud and illegal voting by noncitizens.
This time, there were no fact checks. And the X algorithm — under Mr. Musk’s direct control — helped the posts reach large audiences, in some cases drawing many millions of views.
Since taking control of the site, Mr. Musk has dismantled the platform’s system for flagging false election content, arguing it amounted to election interference.
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Good luck in November, America. Seems you’ll need it more than ever.
I was going to send my drone to Ukraine but I might need it here. Hilarious the maga folks think they’re the only ones with weapons
I am fairly sure Dump will win. I’m already prepping my brain for 4 years of idiots, scheming, sexism, racism, and all hail God. I’m sorry everyone, we have a lot of raging dumb idiots here
4 years of idiots, scheming, sexism, racism, and all hail God.
If you think it will end after your years, you’re not prepping anywhere near hard enough.
Damn, person just expressing their opinion and preparing for the worst and they get downvoted. They weren’t even supporting the win. The hive is buzzing.
I’m don’t think he will stay out of hospital for that long.
I can see him escaping justice due to ‘ill health’ but also having to give up the idea of running.
Orange man ftw 24
This was the plan the whole time. Duh
Right, 98% of it wasn’t anything about making money, improving the service, building something new, or allowing free speech.
He just wanted to make sure Twitter said what he wanted it to.
It’s been wildly successful on that front. Way way way more successful than, say, Truth Social.
So cut his fucking security clearance already for fucks sake what the fuck even is this pussy shit.
If drug use and election disinformation aren’t enough to kill his contracts, then the stupid fucking Democrats have no fucking balls.
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Democrats because this affects them and if they don’t do anything about it they’re showing how toothless and useless they are in the face of fascists.
This is a big deal, and just letting it slide is a fucking joke. They have good reasons (the drug use) to revoke his security clearance already and they have not.
I vote for Democrats you dumb fuck. Why does every fucking IDIOT on Lemmy think valid critique of Democratic failures means we’re not voting for them. Take that shit and shove it.
https://lemmy.world/u/Zevlen is a dumb pearl-clutching harmless soft unthreatening androgynous stereotype that Republicans hope to push to rural working class as evidence that society is going to fail and be taken over by external existential threats if the other side wins.
the stupid fucking Democrats have no fucking balls. it’s just true. they don’t have what it takes to stand up to fascism. we need to fight them ourselves
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Sucks about your poor reading comprehension.
they don’t have what it takes to stand up to fascism.
Man, what clued you in? For me it was it the bipartisan support for fascist leadership in Israel or because the Democrats keep going “well we have to make deals with fascists and limit your rights, because that’s democracy.” Cue the law they passed for their Republican buddies on a “deal” causing way more problems, never getting repealed, and then them acting like its a fucking win somehow.
Next week- Elon blames Trump’s loss on voter fraud instigated by Jews working with Black people.
I feel like we need to add a leprechaun for good measure.
It’s true, I saw some tweets calling musk a genius.
When I become a billionaire I hope you guys don’t let me become just a trash human like basically every billionaire.
You typically need to be a trash human being to begin with in order to become a billionaire.
Or the child of one
Which means your upbringing and education is ripe with coditioning to become a trash human. So that’s just another chicken/egg problem.
But you have to be a trash human in order to become a billionaire.
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It feels like why he wanted the site lol. The site is just a few steps above posting on truth social at this point.
Yes, that was his goal.
“Oh, boo hoo,” Harmeet K. Dhillon, a lawyer whose firm represents Mr. Trump
I mean, they are basically just good old fashioned trolls - sadists, sociopaths and narcissists and morons. And they are winning.
We shouldn’t have been so mean to Elon. I blame reddit for this /s
As long as Trump gets elected, it’s money well spent I assume.
Everyone needs to take more responsibility for the nonsense they read instead of blaming it all on the platform or Elon.
Really? This is the same as “criminals should stop being criminals instead of having people complaining to the police that they don’t do their work”
