Elon Fires Half of X's Election Integrity Team, Because a Manager Liked a Tweet

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/28/elon-fires-half-of-extwitters-election-integrity-team-because-a-manager-liked-a-tweet-calling-him-a-fucking-dipshit/

by rideontime • 3 years ago

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RetiredRichard• 3 years ago

"Free Speech Absolutist"

harryVic• 3 years ago

And the trigger for all of this Elon madness was his son coming out as trans.

brucethemoose2• 3 years ago

I feel for Linda Yaccarino.

I dunno what kind of agency she was promised as CEO, but she's not getting it.

quantified• 3 years ago

If she believed she was getting any, she's too gullible to be a CEO. I think she just wanted to be part of something famous.

Zigurd• 3 years ago

Ehhhh. She is an opportunist. Nothing wrong with that if it raises your profile in the part of the tech industry that sells ads, and you get out before a humiliating event. But she is not a very good opportunist.

3cats-in-a-coat• 3 years ago

She’s precisely what she wanted to be. She got this job by auditioning as an Elon Musk apologist during a live interview with him few months ago. And her job is now… more of that.

crtified• 3 years ago

Does anyone else feel as though Twitter-now-X has somehow gone, in recent times, from being a questionable but tolerable hotspot of widely used, observable human interaction, to becoming a tacitly hostile, alienating door-closed-in-your-face non-entity?

I was never an active user of the thing, but at least I interacted with the site - via links, etc - on a regular, if minor, basis. It was a Thing, it had (for better or worse) global influence, and even a form of purpose, in the name of fast, ubiquitous human intercommunication of news and such.

Now, it's like the whole thing just doesn't even exist anymore. Or barely. Swathes of its purpose (such as it was), brand, and presence have just been ... wiped out. The only news on X that seems to make it to the mainstream any more, is news about X - such as this very topic.

It is difficult to fathom.

Surely Elon would enjoy his life more had he never become involved with the whole thing.

bravetraveler• 3 years ago

I'm with you.

I was never really a user, having an account but never signing in/posting. Now... any references I see to it are entirely not engaging (ie: no threads). If I go to the home page I can't see anything, I can't log in.

I deleted my unused account at the news of a change in ownership. Not due to some strong beliefs or anything, I just thought - why keep an unused service when their terms will surely change?

Anyway, I must be linked to get the slightest morsel.

Sure, some people may follow the pattern and sign up - but I (and others) don't, so it's inherently insulated.

This limits the impact both to/from Twitter. It generally feels less significant; at least to those outside, but maybe my FOMO is broken.

nradov• 3 years ago

No. I haven't noticed any changes in the accounts that I follow.

keernan• 3 years ago

What does it say about our world when Musk can buy Twitter just because he wanted a new toy; and then the whole world watches as he demonstrates through his toy-play that he possesses the emotional age of 12 year old.

rsynnott• 3 years ago

As always, it is the people who go on a lot about sensitive snowflakes who are the most sensitive of snowflakes.

knewter• 3 years ago

I feel like maybe this is a consequence of fatherlessness? Just guessing, since my dad's the one that taught me not to publicly ridicule my boss. People take different paths though, so no telling.

Elon Fires Half of X's Election Integrity Team, Because a Manager Liked a Tweet

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