Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right groups. Musk’s excruciating March 27 deposition in the matter, which a judge ordered released to the public over the objections of the CEO’s lawyer, reveals the extent to which he has continually sabotaged both himself and the social media platform he owns.
One flew over the Twitter’s nest
Is this news been checked?
So what?
So busy working all day yet he runs two burner Twitter accounts.
This asshole doesn’t do shit but play Diablo 4 (which sucks ass), tweet, and boss around the people who actually make his companies successful.
He’s one of those CEOs that teams have two meetings for: one where the CEO joins and they only say things the CEO wants to hear, and a second to actually discuss the relevant issues.
Not far off from the truth and a big part of the reason SpaceX actually gets some cool stuff done.
Having private accounts isn’t that unusual for public figures, sometimes people just want to soapbox and vent in public a little but not attract too much attention to themselves.
Roleplaying your own infant son on one of your private account, however, is super, super weird.
What he said as that account is the extra weird part. Some rather inappropriate things.
I’m gonna guess he has way more than two burners. The dude is an addict, tweeting is all he has.
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
There was that bizarre scenario with “Adrian Dittman” recently, where Musk - I mean uh, Dittman - called into Alex Jones’ show and was immediately called out for being Musk because he sounded almost identical. However, the caller denied it. Then Musk started doing little podcasts with “Dittman” apparently because it was so neat they just happened to talk almost exactly alike. Hmm.
Then, there’s “Doge Designer”, who is supposedly an Indian engineer at some Dogecoin focused company, but often says precisely what Musk would say about things, frequently gets replied to by Musk, and has somehow come up with TwitX stats and yet unseen personal photos of Elron with no explanation.
X is “the most accurate, timely, and truthful place on the internet,” Musk said during his questioning about a false statement he made on the site that has been viewed by over a million users and has yet to be retracted or deleted almost a year later.
Hilarious.
Truth in this case, comes from the ability to be proven wrong. If they removed it, the truth wouldn’t have a chance to be relevant and challenge the wrong statement. I assume that is what Elon has in mind when he considers his site to be more truthful. Much on the common internet these days gets shut down and removed before even being able to be challenged. Like on Reddit. Which ironically leads to less truth, since less people have their opinions challenged and are instead removed, or the challenge is removed.
Give an example of where it’s led to less truth. When X perpetuates lies, truth and the world’s welfare is harmed. Look at the number of people that died thinking covid was a lie and people that think vaccines are somebkind of conspiracy to harm them.
If X perpetuates a lie and doesn’t have the facilitation to allow a variety of perspectives and opinions to hold the lie accountable, that is an echo chamber and I’d agree it would be a huge problem. Elon said every person should be allowed to speak for the most part on X. If that saying holds any merit, I assume X lives up to that eventually. If it doesn’t I’m on you guys’ side about X.
I feel if Elon Musk said covid was a lie and people took only his word for it, that is on them. Its another story entirely if there was no other trustworthy source of information or data. USA seems to struggle with that these days, so I understand how it went so wrong with Covid in some places. But yeah, a person in this case would win the game of natural selection by not only going off of what one dude/source says (probably in a casual, low effort manner at that).
Musk allows extreme right wing to flourish and boosts their falsehoods himself, but has personally censored many left voices. What he claims about “free speech” and what he does are not the same.
Do you have sources that show he intentionally censored voices? He would be a huge hypocrite depending on how that was done.
There are numerous examples available to anyone who looks for it. Here’s one where he banned a bunch of journalists who had been critical of him, using an excuse about “doxxing”:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/twitter-journalist-suspend-1.6688110
There’s another where he suspended the account of a prominent Tesla critic:
Thank you for sharing.
Hm, in the first link, the journalist seems to have contributed to the incentivization of giving people the power to find and try to harm/kill Elon. I personally feel that directly incentivizing and feeding information for possible murder of an individual is one of the few things I would agree with keeping away from the app myself.
As for the second link it reads like a red flag for me. The reasoning to the ban is not there. And any estimates of why fall short with obscurity. At least within’ the article. Generally when something is obscure I assume the worst. But part of me wonders if details were left out from the article. I’d need to do more research. Looks bad for Elon though.
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No I’m pretty sure truth is just information that maps to material reality.
Like, it’s more complex than that, and if anyone wanted to have a serious discussion we should probably lay down sonevprimers and talk about thought and models and standardized abstractions like language, but without getting about 5000 pages deep; truth is just that; information that maps to material reality. It remains true if it is not known, and a lie is not made truth if everybody fails to call it bullshit.
Twisting the definition of truth to lick the boot of musk. What a tool.
So you are basically saying to mute the opposition to the agenda of power?
No, I don’t accept the proposition. There is plenty of false and unverifiable content on FB, reddit, IG and so on.
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If in this case the power allows democracy to function better through clearer and less muted digital freedom of speech, thats a better power than anything else. If thats what it takes to make the averages of society think a more unified, less biased and obscured thought again and regain its control over the real power that is greedy money to the few, then fuck it so be it.
Except he’s been caught many times banning and censoring left wing individuals and organizations while allowing literal nazis carte blanche and himself broadcasting fascist and racist viewpoints on the site.
this is such a fun image from the other day of Musk’s blatant hypocrisy and how his cult of personality has allowed his minions to ignore reality.
“Not fact checking” and “spewing objectively dumb shit” are not the same thing.
True, but this was a legal admission. He said it under oath.
The whole article is pretty wild.
Elmo never misses an opportunity to demonstrate what an utter moron he is.
He says what he feels and its not always factually correct. Sounds like a human to me. If people believe everything he says thats on them.
He is deliberately using his celebrity status as an avenue to spread disinformation and promote his personal agenda in a public forum. The public that he is attempting to manipulate that occupy said forum have every right to ridicule and criticize his attempts.
Not everyone is able to purchase a popular social media platform in an effort to enhance the visibility and normalization of their beliefs.
If his questionable opinions “sound human to you,” then so should the public response that they create.
What makes you think he is deliberately spreading disinformation?
He says what he feels. It is a responsibility for the people to not take everything he says as fact. Its like talking to a friend who says some wild shit to get it off their chest. Doesn’t mean you need to change your opinion because of it.
I see the theoretical idea of him intentionally trying to shape the opinion of his sheep enough to do what he wants for him. But I don’t personally buy it. Albeit it is good to be aware of the possibility.
OK pedo guy.
He says what he feels.
We call people like this with zero filter who constantly attack and insult others “Assholes”
Most people don’t behave like this. And it’s really no excuse for him spewing shit unfiltered. this is a terrible defense.
Found your alt account, Elon, nice try.
It’s a problem when it’s defaming someone.
Telling his advertisers that if they don’t like that he allows antisemitism and hatred on X, to fuck off, in person in an auditorium is not “human”. it’s disgusting and evidences that He himself believes in spreading hatred as long as it makes him rich/powerful
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/elon-musk-bob-iger-should-be-fired-immediately
this isn’t how you run a business. (unless you’re perfectly fine with spreading hatred)
He owns the platform and actively dismantled fact checking and moderation. Your point is shit.
Wait, you’re saying its not possible for people to call him out for being wrong on X?
You don’t need to fact check yourself when you’re always right.
And the richer you are, the smarter you are, so he is always right.
He’s the rightest guy in the room.
That’s just a corollary to Worthington’s Law
Only 2?
So disinfo is the currency of X now. Their gas bill is gonna be outrageous
Are we just going to ignore the fact that an account can’t be a “burner” account if you keep reusing it? This abuse of language doesn’t fly with me
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Yeah, he’s clearly too far down the reddit rabbithole.
Has to “uhm ackshually” about everything.
For a plug thats not a “burner”, its the trap phone. Hearing lemmy nerds talk about this stuff is amusing
Hey now, this is Lemmy. There’s no room for nuance, just unbridled pedantry.
What a sad pathetic little man. Proof that money is no substitution for a parents love if you want your kids to grow up normal.
I’m sure he had a relatively normal upbringing. After all his father’s current wife is his step sister. Who among us has not lived through something like that.
Why bother trying to tell the truth when there are no consequences for lying.
