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Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News
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Forget that Twitter/X even exists. It's simple.
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2024
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I think about this a lot lately
twitter has been "x'd" out. Do not expect it to be anything other than a shit show. The X means close the window, goodbye.
No one goes to Twitter for news anymore, they go to see where the next Klan meeting is.
If you're using Twitter as a news source what are you even doing in the first place?
Go to the news outlets directly, the BBC, whoever.
tbf lemmy is a very good news source, and sharing and discussing news articles is why reddit was created.
I like it in theory, but the content posted here seems even more politically biased than on Reddit, or at least I've found it difficult to find a good sample from different sides, and neutral content is pretty much not happening. Even in tech, most of it seems to be bashing on Musk or some other billionaire.
I just want to know what's happening in the world and I want to discuss it. Why does everything need to be so slanted? I really miss /r/neutralnews on Reddit because the mods at least enforced the rule that facts must be cited, which helped quite a bit on nonsense posts.
I like the format, I just don't think we have the right moderation team and/or userbase to get exactly what I'm looking for. But I'm unwilling to go back to Reddit out of stubbornness, so I settle for lemmy.
Why does everything need to be so slanted?
in defense of some of the content, people like musk are inherently slanted in countering positions, so it's kind of hard to write neutral opinion articles on the man who literally bought one of the largest social medias globally, and turned it into a republican disinformation machine for his personal gain.
factual, and fact based reporting is still good though.
Really, because since I blocked most meme communities, I feel like all I'm getting in Lemmy lately is news about Twitter and Bluesky.
I argue this is the one time I wouldn't call it Twitter.
This is a problem unique to Elon's social media's dumpster, X. He's actively hindering free speech and free press
Edit: sorry. I read more comments I see I'm wrong and this was an ongoing thing. Here's my foot in mouth comment for prosperity I guess
It's not unique to Xitter. Facebook has been deprioritizing posts with links in them for a while.
Wasn't it known/confirmed since Twitter made their algorithm partially open source? (I think it was a year ago or so)
My favorite was all the "if elon" code debacles lol. The code was hilarious.
Yeah, he specifically gets boosted across the site, which is why he ended up in everyone's feeds.
Could learn a lesson or two from that MySpace Tom guy. He might have been my first friend on that site, but he never made a peep after that! I respect him for that.
If MySpace had lived long enough to get enshittified Tom would have been replaced by an AI chat bot who never leaves you alone.
That would imply that people who still use twitter would be interested in actual news.
He wants the content there rather than people going to other sites for it - that way he knows EXACTLY what's being posted there, what people are saying about him and Donny - he wants to own and control it all.
Ok but twitter isn't even a real source for news so who cares. Go to a real news site.
There was a time when a story could happen, and literally wighin minutes you'd have multiple sources of video, on the scene, as the story happens.
I'm not promoting school shootings. I'm not encouraging them. I'm not glorifying them. But there was a LONG time when I expected a high school shooting to happen, and a high school student would livestream it with a hashtag like #schooladdress #help
Closest I ever saw was Uvalde school security cameras showing police showing up.......and being cowards. I will forever call those cowards out. You show up, 30 to 1, all with guns, and you let one student continue to kill at a time when every second is a potential live being saved or lost. They hung out in the lobby. Not only that, they restrained parents from stopping the killer themself.
In my eyes they didn't just show up and do nothing in the lobby. They actively aided the shooter that day.
Sorry, I went off on a tangent, because it still pisses me off. But yeah, I fully expected one day when twitter was still a source for news, to wake up one day, and see an active shooter scene being broadcast from inside a classroom.
The problem is many people still rely on X for live news such as sport news, disaster news (earthquake news), war news (Gaza/Ukraine). But, with this change this is getting really bad lately for this platform.
Just like many rely on Facebook. Providing news doesn't make it a good news source.
It's a voluntary captured audience. They will see it because they go there already. Doesn't matter about the quality. They don't care anyway.
It says posts containing links. That means links to news stories. You are currently engaging with a post that is a link to a new story. Maybe you shouldn't be here. Go find a "real" news site.
It's not a source for news, but a venue.
Or at least, it used to be.
That’s just it, most won’t.
