• demesisx@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    How was this not the first thing anyone thought of when he bought Twitter? I literally said, “Elon wants to sway the results of elections like Zuck does.” and immediately closed my twitter account and moved to Mastodon, unsuccessfully urging any of my (hypocritical) peers that would listen to do the same for the sake of free speech.

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    3 months ago

    I guess they are under the false assumption that the platform spreading disinformation is unintentional and undesired.

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    3 months ago

    His proposal with buying Twitter was to “fix the bots” but he probably actually just meant control the tone of them

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    3 months ago

    in UK, government would also like to have a word about false statements concerning inevitable civil war …