Social Media & Big Tech news and discussions

[caltrek]

"YouTube will now allow 2020 election denialism content, in policy reversal"
New York
CNN
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New York
CNN
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/business ... index.html

Trump is just wearing us down with his Big Lie, and his followers are enabling him to do that. Only the loss of several more elections on the part of Republicans who push this Big Lie will allow it to finally go away. Certainly, the total lack of credible supportive evidence on its own does not seem to have done the trick.

[Time_Traveller]

"YouTube will now allow 2020 election denialism content, in policy reversal"
New York
CNN
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*snip*

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/business ... index.html

Trump is just wearing us down with his Big Lie, and his followers are enabling him to do that. Only the loss of several more elections on the part of Republicans who push this Big Lie will allow it to finally go away. Certainly, the total lack of credible supportive evidence on its own does not seem to have done the trick.

This also says alot about Youtube too.

[Powers]

This also says alot about Youtube too.

Preparing their mouth for a new -angry- administration.

[wjfox]

[Powers]

The goal is to get rid (note: not delete) of old internet/data.

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

[weatheriscool]

Twitter has failed to pay millions in worker bonuses, lawsuit claims
Source: Reuters

June 21 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc is facing a lawsuit claiming it failed to pay workers millions of dollars in promised bonuses, adding to a pile of court cases filed since Elon Musk acquired the social media company.

Mark Schobinger, who was Twitter's senior director of compensation and left the company last month, filed the proposed class action in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday.

Schobinger says that before and after Musk purchased Twitter last year, the company promised employees that they would receive 50% of their target bonuses for 2022. But those payments never materialized, according to the lawsuit, which accuses Twitter of breach of contract.

Twitter, also known as X Corp, no longer has a media relations office. It responded to a request for comment on the lawsuit with a poop emoji. Schobinger's lawyer, Shannon Liss-Riordan, represents ex-Twitter workers in several other lawsuits and about 2,000 individual arbitration cases stemming from mass layoffs ordered by Musk last year.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/twitter-h ... 023-06-21/

[weatheriscool]

[Time_Traveller]

Twitter has started blocking unregistered users

Jun 30, 2023, 3:44 PM GMT+1

If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you may find you’re unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll likely be met with the Twitter window that asks you to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you from viewing tweets and user profiles or browsing through threads unless you’re a registered Twitter user.

Several members of The Verge team have been able to replicate the issue, and it appears to be affecting web access on both desktop and mobile devices. Prior to this change, Twitter allowed people limited access to the platform without an account — you could view public tweets and user profiles, for example, but couldn’t like or leave comments. A window that prevented readers from viewing additional posts until they signed in also previously appeared after the viewer had scrolled past an undisclosed number of tweets, though that at least allowed some access to the platform.

Now, regardless of how you try to access the website — be that the homepage or a direct link to a tweet or profile — you’re immediately met with a sign-in prompt that completely obscures your view. It doesn’t even tease the content with a swift redirect. You simply can’t see anything.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/2377 ... unt-tweets

[weatheriscool]

This sucks ass as I run a hurricane archives and this means people that don't have twitter don't get to see some of the stuff I add to my storm archives. f*ck.

[Powers]

This sucks ass as I run a hurricane archives and this means people that don't have twitter don't get to see some of the stuff I add to my storm archives. f*ck.

https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

[Powers]

https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

Uh oh...

[wjfox]

[Powers]

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/94377184

[Time_Traveller]

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/94377184

In a way, that is what it is.

[weatheriscool]

[weatheriscool]

[Powers]

Sensitive Info

wtf

[Time_Traveller]

Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse

Wed 5 Jul 2023 13.00 BST

If you use Twitter, the service that not so long ago was the best way to take in breaking news and find audiences for serious conversations, you may have found it substantially less useful in the past year. Over this past weekend you found it almost unusable. On Saturday, everything melted down. Thousands of users reported that they had major issues using the platform, including an inability to access any tweets or to post their own tweets – so, basically, everything for which one might want to use Twitter.

On Saturday, Musk announced that Twitter was limiting the ways all users could access tweets “to address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation”. In other words, Musk was blaming commercial services that might want to scrape tweets and incorporate them into machine-learning models. There is no reason to believe this is actually happening, but Musk’s longtime hostility to artificial intelligence must have led him to deploy such services as likely suspects to blame for Twitter’s fragility.

Then Musk announced that accounts that didn’t pay for the company’s Twitter Blue service (almost all of them) would be limited to viewing a total of 600 posts a day, while accounts that did pay up would be limited to 6,000. Newly created Twitter accounts would be limited to viewing 300 posts a day. Later on Saturday, after significant public ridicule and anger, Musk twice raised the limits, as if that would appease users. As of Sunday night the limits stood at 10,000 posts a day for Blue subscribers, 1,000 a day for free accounts and 500 for newly created free accounts.

Such chaotic decisions certainly cast further doubt on Musk’s competence. There is no way he ran any predictive analyses to come up with such policies and numbers. He’s just winging it – poorly.

Over the past year, since the former genius assumed complete control of Twitter, he has expressed hostility toward its most loyal and active classes of user, including journalists, political and social activists, and the very businesses Twitter depends on for advertising revenue. By driving away advertisers from an already shaky and poorly run firm, Musk has lurched toward a desperate but ultimately futile move: to coerce (not encourage) users to subscribe to Twitter Blue, a special tier of membership that costs $8 (£6) a month, or 38.29 reis in Brazil, the third-largest market for Twitter after the US and Japan. Those 38.29 reis are about half what most people in Brazil pay each month for internet access itself and is beyond a reasonable expense for the vast majority of people there.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... f-collapse