Also more or less the spez strategy.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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I could live my whole life never hearing "news" about twitter, musk, etc ever again.
It seems to be a fediverse problem. The user base is small and the ones that post things post a lot about other social media platforms and by extension musk.
Start posting stuff that you would like to see and stop commenting on these. The trend is that musk articles get many times more engagement than other types of posts.
I'm honestly less concerned about it showing up here, and more concerned that the news sites can't let this non-news drama go. There's important stories happening every day, but no, NBC needs to drop another story about a failing tech company and ignore the larger issues.
It's important to remember that the far-right does strategize like this, like an abusive partner planning revenge on an ex.
Do you know what the most common topic of discussion is in neo-nazi chat rooms? It's not how much they hate minorities, it's how to get other people to hate minorities just as much as they do.
Unsurprisingly, popular techniques include memes, pretending to be moderates or "leftists", blaming progressives for people becoming neo-nazis, signal boosting content that reflects badly on "undesirables" and of course their current favourite, pretending those undesirables are sexual predators or support sexual predators.
Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the 3,000-word anonymous article said, would amount to a “declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire.” The sender of the texts was offering Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, a playbook for the takeover and transformation of Twitter. As the anniversary of Musk's purchase approaches, the identity of the sender remains unknown.
The article then expressed sympathy for the Russian-government-controlled news outlets Russia Today and Sputnik, saying they had been unfairly “canceled” after Russia invaded Ukraine. Musk ended the use of “state-sponsored media” labels on Twitter this year, dropping it from the accounts of Russia Today, Sputnik and many other state-owned organizations. The change reportedly prompted RT editor Margarita Simonyan to send Musk a note of appreciation.
Duh
little more than validation of the obvious at this point. who cares, move on