Hate speech researchers sued by X accuse Musk of being an “authoritarian”
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I'm generally actively uninterested in the twitter saga but this article was fascinating. musk is a 
& hypocrite
& hypocrite
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This coming from the guy who decided Kanye should be able to spout his bullshit on the Ex platform.
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How dare those researchers tell people the truth about what is going on at X/Twitter and back their statements up with data?!?
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I can't wait for X/Twitter to get this suit tossed out of court and then lose an anti-SLAPP suit.
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I can't wait for X/Twitter to get this suit tossed out of court and then lose an anti-SLAPP suit.
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Turns out Musk is fast tracking his Mars plans, he wants to be imperator ... of Earth.
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Says alt-rightists who are happy to have foreign interests influence elections in their favor...
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Any time you find yourself on the same side of an issue as Josh Hawley, you really, really need to rethink your life choices. All of them. Thoroughly. And with great care.
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thrillgore
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The Center for Countering Digital Hate stops the spread of online hate and disinformation through research, public campaigns and policy advocacy.
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Under the philosophy that poisoning only a few people is better than poisoning a lot of people, one imagines.
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Does Elon need a safe space from facts that might dissuade advertizers from his platform?
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Accuse of him being an authoritarian? I think it's a pretty well-established fact that Musk is the stereotypical, hypocritical, arrogant, ignorant authoritarian douchebag. But it's also been fascinating seeing the true face of alt-right America and just how fucking impossibly stupid they are as a collective. They're are like an army of ants marching around in a circle until they die, too stupid to understand what they're doing.
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Holy shit Musk, can you kindly fuck off into oblivion? Just because someone is calling you out on your lies doesn't mean you can sue them.
I'm tired of all these right wing losers claiming that anything that isn't "pure white heterosexual male" as immoral. News flash Musk you invited hate speech via Nazis, anti-LGTBQ and anti-women the second you bought it and fired the moderators.
I'm tired of all these right wing losers claiming that anything that isn't "pure white heterosexual male" as immoral. News flash Musk you invited hate speech via Nazis, anti-LGTBQ and anti-women the second you bought it and fired the moderators.
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If there hasn't been an increase in (whatever undesirable thing) on Twitter, would that not be Twitter announcing to the world that all of their policy changes since Elom took over have had exactly zero effect?
Weird "gotcha", Elom.
Weird "gotcha", Elom.
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Our “please don’t research hate speech on our platform” lawsuit is raising a lot of questions we thought were already addressed by the lawsuit.
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Musk: "CCHD does not have complete information and cannot give an accurate picture of /cough 'X'"
Why not?
Also Musk: "Well we prevent people from being able to get complete information so they can paint an accurate picture of what is going on."
Why not?
Also Musk: "Well we prevent people from being able to get complete information so they can paint an accurate picture of what is going on."
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OK, let's be clear here, Yaccarino is overseeing jack shit. There's no way Musk allows her to make a single decision about what the trust and safety team are doing or concluding.
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Needless to say, the product of discovery from Twitter's safety team would be bigly interesting.
Prediction: desperate bullying to try to extract a settlement, but zero point zero chance this lawsuit actually proceeds, because Elom is a chicken.
Prediction: desperate bullying to try to extract a settlement, but zero point zero chance this lawsuit actually proceeds, because Elom is a chicken.
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The “evil” British Labour Party?
The political party that is led by a very respected former UK Director of Public Prosecutions? (I don’t know the US equivalent but think Director of the FBI or similar)
The political party that is currently polling approx 20%+ ahead of the shambolic and lawbreaking but currently ruling Conservative Party and is set to (hopefully) win the next UK General Election in about (tbc) 8 months time?
Way to go Mr X if you were hoping to keep UK lawmakers onside next year ahead of a possible in-depth EU investigation into hate speech and other issues on Twitter.
(Even after Brexit, EU legal decisions still deeply influence the UK, and historically speaking Labour governments have been more keen on implementing EU rulings than Conservative governments.)
The political party that is led by a very respected former UK Director of Public Prosecutions? (I don’t know the US equivalent but think Director of the FBI or similar)
The political party that is currently polling approx 20%+ ahead of the shambolic and lawbreaking but currently ruling Conservative Party and is set to (hopefully) win the next UK General Election in about (tbc) 8 months time?
Way to go Mr X if you were hoping to keep UK lawmakers onside next year ahead of a possible in-depth EU investigation into hate speech and other issues on Twitter.
(Even after Brexit, EU legal decisions still deeply influence the UK, and historically speaking Labour governments have been more keen on implementing EU rulings than Conservative governments.)
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Oh yes, the old "speak about issues the CCDH doesn’t agree with". Just what issues are those exactly?
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I'll be happy when a certain three people are NOT in the news every freaking day. I hope this nitwit is countersued and forced to pay legal fees and court costs. Not like he'll pay them, but you know..
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I'd say being a lawyer on retainer with Musk must be a pretty sweet gig but he probably tries to weasel out of paying them too.
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It's a good thing Yaccarino is heading up trust and safety. It's not like switching brands from Twitter to X let trolls hijack her username for fun and games
I feel more secure already
I feel more secure already
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Well, given Musk replatformed White Supremacists, and Trump, and just invited Ye back to Twitter, and unbanned a guy who was spreading CSAM (lying about how many people had seen the content in question), and removed language about deadnaming from the posting guidelines but calls "cisgender" a slur, and how he completely fucked over NPR by falsely equating them with RT based on some right-wing asshole's flippant remark...
I guess we should trust them about how much hateful content is on their platform?
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Well just declare your organization a church and you're good - no more pesky disclosures about your funding sources or how you operate!
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Agreed - let's start by getting rid of any form of anonymous political campaign contributions!
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This is so delusional, I'd almost expect the next thing we'll see is Musk suing the advertisers for leaving because they believed the fact that their ads were displayed on posts promoting hate speech, then he'll go after the individual power users for closing their accounts.
God, what an asshole idiot.
God, what an asshole idiot.
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Personally, I refuse to cede 1/26th of the alphabet to Twitter. So tell the chief twit he can get bent.
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