X, the social media website formerly known as Twitter, stunned observers on Thursday when it posted a warning on links to an NPR story detailing former President Donald Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week.The NPR report in question alleged a physical confrontation that too...

Time to never use it again.

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
    2101·
    3 months ago

    It’s astonishing how completely and thoroughly fucked things are right now.

    Think about it - the measure of how damaging a story might be to a deranged convicted felon presidential candidate is the eagerness with which a social media site owned by a billionaire troll and self-professed “free speech absolutist” tries to censor it.

    How is that even possible? Does no one else recognize how jaw-droppingly insane these people are?

    • _bcron@midwest.socialEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      If the media would quit making articles out of X posts and hosting said posts for clickthroughs that’d be great.

      They’ll even link to X in articles specifically discussing how bad X or Musk is, like no drop is responsible for the flood

      • Codex@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        That would require “journalist” to still be a real career path. Media sites today have cut costs down to the point where “outsourced guy (about to be replaced by AI) who writes 1000 words about Xitter posts” is what passes for “news reporter” these days. What are those people supposed to do, actual work?

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    48·
    3 months ago

    Dude why on earth would you

    Every time I visit Twitter I feel a strong desire to watch the video or whatever I came for and get the fuck out of there.

    It is impossible to look over someone’s profile; as far as I can tell I get it sorted in “random bullshit from 2018” order and there is no way to change it

    It had weird pop ups that mean nothing. Sign up with Google! Sign up with Apple! Once you join X, you can respond which means you’re allowed to read the comments! Here is someone who thinks Covid isn’t real!

    It feels like going to some kind of sketchy site to download the pirated software I am looking for and get the fuck out before something happens to my computer

    • Dran@lemmy.world
      12·
      3 months ago

      I believe it was a musk move that changed the default sort order from “latest first” to “most engaged” as an intentional inconvenience to encourage users to make accounts and log in.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    32·
    3 months ago

    The most damage isn’t even from the altercation their staff had with a worker. It’s the picture he had taken of himself giving the thumbs up and smiling like the tone deaf, sheltered rich kid that he always has been while standing behind of the tomb of someone who died because of the absolute trainwreck of a negotiating job he did with the Taliban.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    Not showing due reverence to dead soldiers is lesson 101 in how to lose an election.

    Rishi Sunak did the same thing in the UK, and even the usual right wing red top press hauled him over the coals for it.

  • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    All these narcissists, so desperate for attention, and so blind to the damage this attention will do to them.

    How awesome (literally and figuratively) it is that they also own and control entire social media platforms.

    Lol

    This wasn’t true last time around, and might be the secret sauce that results in their own self defeat.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    111·
    3 months ago

    “Explosive”

    I’m tired of the superlatives, hyperbole, and exaggeration in the press.

    It’s like that line from The Incredibles where Syndrome says, “When everyone’s super, no one will be.” When everything is “destroyed, crushed, hammered,” nothing is.

    The sensationalized language is useless and I can’t even be bothered to read how someone got “slammed”.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    21·
    3 months ago

    Why would those Loser and Suckers care about Trump disparaging the United States Armed Forces?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    127·
    3 months ago

    I mean, fuck the orange man and I’m voting for Harris even though I want a progressive, but this is pretty much the Hunter Biden laptop in reverse.

    Also, fuck Lonnie. That man can eat a bag of dicks.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
      31·
      3 months ago

      but this is pretty much the Hunter Biden laptop in reverse.

      Well no, because this actually happened. There’s a whole video and everything, people can see the evidence.

      • jacksilver@lemmy.world
        17·
        3 months ago

        Also, this is his campaign staff at an event he attended. Can’t recall what people thought was on the laptop, but Hunter Biden is not a part of Bidens campaign or presidency.