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The moment it became paid to be official was the moment spammers and worse thought they would become recognised as trustworthy. Nowadays if it’s blue dont believe anything they say.
So a large amount of dipshits who’re are stupid or vicious enough to pay for blue, digital checkmarks are largely posting false content that is believed by other dipshits who get their knowledge just by a degenerated social media platform like twitter?
Call me surprised… /s
Of a state actor is going to pay for a disinformation opp, $8 an account for signal boost is a no brainier.
Demand USA lawmakers make a fairness doctrine for media and social media. We used to have a fairness doctrine. Tweak it though.
The fairness doctrine had two basic elements: It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters. Stations were given wide latitude as to how to provide contrasting views: It could be done through news segments, public affairs shows, or editorials. The doctrine did not require equal time for opposing views but required that contrasting viewpoints be presented. The demise of this FCC rule has been cited as a contributing factor in the rising level of party polarization in the United States.[5][6]
Yep, sounds like Elon and the Saudi’s have achieved their goal of crippling Twitter’s utility as a means of organizing large scale protests and uprisings like the Arab Spring or the BLM protests in 2020. Now all that’s left are propaganda bots and various flavours of right wing extremists.
Oh shit
TikTok has filled that void, for now.
You should probably not listen to the opinion of anyone who pays Elon Musk 8 dollars a month for an emoji.
As planned though! Elon Musk doesn’t care about misinfo as long as aligns with his politics.
This is not news. Stop upvoting Twitter spam, it’s not even vaguely interesting.
About everyone (including several news sites) have produced false/misleading claims about who launched which rocket and how many were killed and all the other stuff, because this fight is messy, and both sides want to look good.
How many of those misinformers just copied from another source that’s supposed to be more trusted?
I’m shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked.
Exactly what he wanted, money. He’s not interested in the slightest with factual information unless there’s some way he can use it for his own benefit
This definitely feels le sampling bias to me. What percentage of xhitter as a whole is paying for blue checks? What percentage of information regarding the war from blue checks is true? How does that compare with the same figure for non paying customers?
Blue Blocker is a great extension for anyone still using Twitter.
