They would have know this before putting it public, and someone signed off on the deployment. Here’s a bet that Musk or his surrogates got a nasty gram from the whitehouse telling them to shelve it.
Who would have to know what? Foreign actors hardly require the administration’s permission to engage in propaganda.
The people planning the update to X, IT staff don’t tend to make changes to public facing interfaces without having some level of an idea what that change is going to bring.
Given the tendency for a lot of political talk on there, and the owners recent adventures in doge land I can’t believe someone hadn’t looked into this before pushing to prod.
That’s like leaking the scientific discovery that water makes things wet
That’s a real shocker. /s
They outed the DHS account as being run from Israel, and disabled the feature.
That was fake
I’ve seen people repeating fake account locations across a few Lemmy posts on this story.
Yea cause it’s perfect lefty confirmation bias bait. I’ve had people tell me “yes I know this story is fake but it’s great propaganda” and then had the mods choose not to remove the post lol.
