X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter, is marking some links to news organization NPR’s website as “unsafe” when users click through to read the latest story about an altercation between a Trump campaign staffer and an Arlington National Cemetery employee. The warning being displayed is typically applied to malicious links, like those containing malware, and other types of misleading content or spam. However, in this case, the web page being blocked is an NPR news report, raising questions about whether or not Musk’s X is actively trying to stop the news story from spreading.
If everyone could just delete Twitter, that’d be great. I don’t get how people just prioritize “there are good memes sometimes” over staying out of the metaphorical Nazi bar.
I keep hearing “it is the only way for me to get critical weather updates in my area!” which at least would be better than being addicted to memes, but still seems to me like a shitty or bogus and/or ssuper rare reason.
Aren’t there like a dozen weather apps?
Trying to be charitable, I’m guessing for some countries there aren’t a lot of good sources. Maybe?
Definitely in the US and Europe there are a billion sources.
I’ve never had a Twitter account in my life and have had no issues finding weather forecasts or emergency notifications. That’s a shitty excuse even by the shitty excuse standard.
I’ve deleted my account, but for twitter was nice for a run to get notifications on local road closures and weather alerts. Sigh.
Armature Porn Twitter’s new lack of moderation and large userbase makes for a perfect storm.
It spent a lot or time carving its place for quick news updates and getting people off platforms is surprisingly hard.
I don’t use it anymore but it’s hard not to inadvertently find a news article that links to it.
It’s this weird game of cat and also cat right now, I think. The media uses Xitter because people read their twats. People use Xitter because there’s media to deliver twats. Until some other short-social platform hits a critical mass of popularity to replace it, that probably won’t change much.
Mastodon?
hits a critical mass of popularity
Mastodon ain’t that.
And never will be if Mastadon users have their way.
Fear of missing out is probably a huge driver here.
Ok, where do I get distilled news and incidents regarding covid and other infectious diseases/viruses spreading?
I would hope the CDC or other government agencies would have their own website and feed, and not rely entirely on a private entity that could go away at any moment.
Sure, the CDC, the NIH and the WHO are some sources. But what about a source that has information about what people are encountering?
Well, fediverse stuff like Lemmy and Mastodon come to mind as one solution.
Web forums were pretty sweet sometimes, too.
I bet there are other options that don’t devolve into “some billionaire asshole owns this” and “value is being extracted”
This is an obvious abuse of power, and is clearly illegal, or at least it is in EU, but since this is about USA, it’s probably alright, because USA is no longer a country of law. If it was, Trump would not still be walking around a free man, running for president.
I hope EU will never decline to the depths Trump and republicans have dragged USA.
It’s about accreditation in the US. It’s the same reason Fox News and Newsmax are classified as “entertainment.” Social media companies are not required to provide accurate information. They’re only held accountable by civil suits for slander or libel.
Well the way things are going, X may need to shut down in EU soon.
Even Brazil doesn’t tolerate their bullshit anymore.
Twitter operates in the EU, so if this were illegal in the EU then the EU would file a complaint. Maybe it’s not illegal in the EU.
First as other people said, it doesn’t work like that. Second there’s already a process in the EU Comission against X because of them knowingly spreading misinformation.
“The EU would file a complaint”. That’s not how that works at all…
“If this were illegal” is already a bad assumption. In the U.S., SCOTUS already determined that the 14th Amendment is unenforceable.
And any other time, there requires somebody to file charges.
They don’t act that fast.
It is unsafe. Unsafe for Elmo’s conspiracy/misinformation posts
you mean Xitter??
Xitter’s full.
Of bots.
But Freeze Peach!
Unsafe for den of liars because people could hear something true.
Yet Twitter would probably sue other sites like Facebook if Facebook blocked them. Hypocrite
Blocking access during an election year to a well respected and accurate news outlet that has never been known to be “unsafe” seems like election interference to me.
Turnabout’s fair play, everyone start blocking links to xhitter. It’s an unsafe site.
Fuck Elon Musk.
What do you mean “caught”? Do you “catch” someone punching you in the face?
Yes you do. That’s what the phrase “catch these hands” is referring to 😁
