John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter.

Hannah Grace

John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter. How it's algorithms are designed to push right-wing content, and how people don't just get away with, but get paid for inciting violence and hate speech. His advice? Leave X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI

#SocialMedia #LeaveTwitter #LeaveX

GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺

@hpod16 That seems so elementary. But it's probably difficult for the same reasons that quitting smoking is.

Hannah Grace

@Eetschrijver I think people are still there because they love to watch the drama? Or perhaps they are attached to what twitter user to be?
Personally I can't bring myself to delete my account, it was a huge part of my life. I'm just inactive & linking to Mastodon on there.
The people I know who still prefer Twitter as a news outlet are pretty unhappy characters, I wonder if there is a link?

GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺

@hpod16 I really don't know. I do know that whilst Twitter was a huge part of my online life, what with Musk at the helm, there's no "for old times' sake" for me--much in the way that the United States, where I once lived, loved and worked, could never be "home" to me now. It's sad, but there it is.

River

@hpod16 just watched that one earlier today. Really good episode. I love John Oliver.

And yeah, Twitter seems pretty bad (although tbh I've got inclinations against pretty much any form of social media, be it racist or not).

Hannah Grace

@riverpunk well, I can assure you it's no good over there on Twitter. No need to go back to check.

W6KME

@hpod16 Anyone using X has made their choice. "Oh, you can't blame people for that, that's not nice, it's not their fault, etc."

Nonsense. Does it suck what happened to it? Yep. Is there Any excuse for still being there? Of course not. The nazis took over the bar; you can't drink there and pretend you're not in a nazi bar.

Extinction Studies

@hpod16
Is there anyone left there of good faith or will? If you're there to promote your products that doesn't count toward good will.

Songbird

@hpod16
Please, please leave Twitter, Facebook and everything alike, if you care about peace in the world. I don't care if you need it to keep in touch with people or to promote yourself, just leave and stop enabling propaganda that's tearing society apart.

David Croyle

@hpod16 Worth a watch if you somehow after all this time still need to be convinced. But like MAGA people you may be a lost cause.

Also it's really worth watching for Elon's interview meltdown where he's desperately searching for something deep-sounding to say, and just utterly fails. Like John Oliver said, "And I promise, this answer is so much worse than what you are prepared for."

Hannah Grace

@croyle haha, yes 100% worth it for the meltdown!

mau :antifa: mau

@hpod16 Could the EU finance a foundation that provides FOSS solutions for the public? Fediverse for everyone—like Signal.

Hannah Grace

@maumau not an expert on FOSS; but there's some more info on funding for this kind of thing here: @EC_NGI

smxi

@aka_quant_noir @hpod16 yes there are. Several ukrainian youtubers who are too busy trying to survive the nightly kremlin missile and drone attacks to worry about following musk's hellscape creation status. Definitely good will but they have to use their finite time carefully. I wince when they say follow on twitter but it's hard to really get what an evil bastard musk is when you are on an active war front every day.

Ianto Jones

@hpod16 I can't comprehend why those who have been aware of the wide-ranging harm caused by Twitter (or Meta, or Spotify, etc.) are still using the platforms. There are options. The universe will not implode and your life will not stop if you cease giving your screen time and ad revenue to the Nazis and parasitic capitalists who are quite literally accelerating the downfall of society. It's bad enough that millions who don't know any better are still feeding the machines.

Joxe Rojas 🥐

@hpod16 Wow! Should be captioned in all languages!

kauer

@hpod16 video has not been made available in (at least) Oz. You'll need a VPN.

Why do people do that?

Rusty

@hpod16 I cannot understand how people are still on that filth of a platform. For one, its bots. For 2, it enriches billionaire scum. Why use it!!

penpencilbrush🇨🇦

@hpod16 Video unavailable in Canada.

Jeff Atwood

@hpod16 people still use txwitter? News to me.

Wandering Adventure Party

John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter.