Elon Musk now owns Twitter

[Zeedox]

Oh man, I cringe even reading that story...

 

[Zeedox]

Twitter is no longer policing Russian and Chinese state-backed media | Semafor

The social media site appears to no longer be enforcing its own policies designed to limit the influence of government propaganda.

www.semafor.com

 

[Gomez Adams]

Absolutely not surprised.

 

[Gomez Adams]

So there's this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1643655041780260866

and then there's this:

https://twitter.com/Nature_and_Race

For fucks sake.

 

[Zeedox]

My Uncle Nick would be loading the shotgun.

"The only good nazi is a dead nazi." - Uncle Nick, WWII Veteran and survivor

 

[Gomez Adams]

You've talked about him before. A man after my own heart.

 

[Zeedox]

 

[Gomez Adams]

It's not going to matter. Musk, like Trump, never pays any of his bills.

 

[Gomez Adams]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1644466881280061441

 

[Zeedox]

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label

Twitter then revised its label on NPR's account to "government-funded media." The news organization says that is inaccurate and misleading, given that NPR is a private, nonprofit company with editorial independence. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

 

[Gomez Adams]

That guy is such a blithering idiot.

 

[Zeedox]

Canada’s CBC ‘pauses’ Twitter use after government-funded media label

Justin Trudeau has accused a rival of taking advantage of the decision by Twitter to attempt to defund the network

www.theguardian.com