In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight to date.
-
In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight to date.
John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations when random twitter users invent conspiracy theories.
I happened to be watching it as your post came up in my feed.
I'd be interested in a poll as to whether people think the service is called X or Twitter. Twitter as far as I'm concerned.
It's run by a twit after all.
-
In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight to date.
John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations when random twitter users invent conspiracy theories.
@randahl having worked there 2011-2012, its very very bizarre seeing what that place turned into
-
In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight to date.
John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations when random twitter users invent conspiracy theories.
Awesome, hilarios and also scary.
Everybody - should leave Twitter / X and all of Elon Musks enterprises.
-
@randahl having worked there 2011-2012, its very very bizarre seeing what that place turned into
-
Twitter was shit long before Elon came along....
That's what made it attractive to him.
-
@Cyberoutsider @randahl good!
im still dying to know if my internal security servers are still there. probably not. i built a system to scan the entire lan every day to find weird scary shit staff would light up without telling anybody
-
@Cyberoutsider @randahl good!
im still dying to know if my internal security servers are still there. probably not. i built a system to scan the entire lan every day to find weird scary shit staff would light up without telling anybody
-
@Cyberoutsider @randahl very much so
-
In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight to date.
John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations when random twitter users invent conspiracy theories.
«Let that ....»
-
In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight to date.
John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations when random twitter users invent conspiracy theories.
@randahl People can now lie shamelessly total impunity while algorithmic media prioritises outrage to maintain engagement to sell ads. Then add in the Elons prioritising lies for their own financial ends, as well as spreading not a few of their own. Burn down the internet, at least the heavily commercial parts of it.
-
In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight to date.
John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations when random twitter users invent conspiracy theories.
@randahl Swedish politicians support this by being there.
-
I happened to be watching it as your post came up in my feed.
I'd be interested in a poll as to whether people think the service is called X or Twitter. Twitter as far as I'm concerned.
It's run by a twit after all.
@HikerGeek @randahl I'm okay calling it "x", because I have some good memories of people and events on Twitter, and those are all gone and destroyed. Now it's something new and worse
-
In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight to date.
John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations when random twitter users invent conspiracy theories.
@randahl This is how Elon's stumbling answer about "collective consciousness" struck me.
Just as 30-40 trillion cells all come together to create one human being, several billion people also can come together to create one "Earth-entity". Of course there are different kinds of cells: skin cells, blood cells, brain cells, etc.
He loves the idea of considering himself a brain cell because the brain controls the body. He thinks he should do the "thinking" for us.
He strives to answer non-arrogantly -
In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight to date.
John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations when random twitter users invent conspiracy theories.
@randahl Colour me not surprised
-
M madsenandersc@social.vivaldi.net shared this topic
