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“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes

“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team… was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes::“‘Election Integrity’ Team… was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes.

HawlSera ,

Elon Musk is a fucking Neo Nazi aka “The Modern Day Republican”, anything that even acknowledges the Democrats as a viable political party is “Extremist Far Left Nonsense” to these deplorables.

bemenaker ,

When will the Tesla board of directors move against Musk as CEO to save the company?

RagingRobot ,

I just bought a new electric car. Didn’t even consider Tesla because of this guy.

vagrantprodigy ,

Same when I bought mine last year. I’m very irked by the fact that most manufacturers are changing to their charging plug too. I want nothing to do with anything Tesla/Musk.

bemenaker ,

While it’s a Tesla plug, at least a standard is reached, which will.speed charging stations deployments.

vagrantprodigy ,

A standard was reached, and everyone except Tesla was on board, and now everyone is for some reason getting on board with yet another standard.

Uncle_Bagel ,

They can’t because the company is propped up entirely by his cult of personality. If he goes, Tesla and SpaceX will collapse

whofearsthenight ,

I think SpaceX will be fine, Tesla I think you’re mostly right. Tesla’s valuation has been almost entirely his cult, but the shine is pretty much off that apple. There has already been some vocal outcry over his antics, and if he had a real board instead of his brother and sycophants, he’d probably already be gone. Any responsible board at this point would see that Tesla is having massive internal struggles (they ship about 60/40 cars to vaporware and have increasing issues with QA and service) and the thing it mostly had going for it was first mover advantage which they’ve now mostly squandered. They still have a good business with the supercharger network, and with proper leadership could still be a big player in the space, but they’re about to be inundated with competition they’ve never really had. They’ve sort of already lost the cool kid premium status to Rivian and Lucid, and Model 3 is about to face competition in a way it never really has.

So all that, and the CEO is shitposting conspiracy theories on his pet project social media app that he’s publicly mismanaging by basically all measures. Like I said, any real board, he’d already be out. I suspect that unless something changes, it won’t be long before there will be real moves to remove him.

Zetta ,

I don’t know where you got the idea that SpaceX is propped up by musks personality, SpaceX is propped up by currently being the most revolutionary space company in the world.

Musk is a dickhead but the spaceX engineers are doing incredible things and advancing humanities space access forward. What SpaceX has done for the global space access can’t be understated.

bemenaker ,

Tesla at this point is fine standing on its own. The management at Tesla for years has run interference between musk and the actual engineers. Musk did a lot of necessary fund raising early.on but at this point he is a mass.liability and sales are falling. Tesla has more competition than ever, and he is driving away people who.would buy tesla cars. The right doesn’t buy electric vehicles.

recapitated ,

Tbf they’re a social media company. If they shut down completely the world wouldn’t really skip a beat.

cyd ,

How much do you think Linda Yaccarino is enjoying her job as CEO?

NocturnalEngineer ,

Forgot she even existed.

cyd ,

So did Elon ;-)

topinambour_rex ,
@topinambour_rex@lemmy.world avatar

Donno, I ignore her salary.

Hiccup ,

You mean the person hired to wear the mascot costume? What does she actually do there? It’s still just Elon. Elon should’ve just worn a wig. Would’ve been the same end result and he could save Twitter even more money.

AndyLikesCandy ,

I completely believe that they were failing.

Question is how bad will the PsyOps and interference get? Without them?

JdW ,

Depends on how relevant twitx still is come the elections…

irotsoma ,
@irotsoma@lemmy.world avatar

It will still be relevant with the minority that holds the majority of power in the US due to gerrymandering, the electoral college, and all of the effort that Republicans have put into making it extremely difficult for people in cities to vote. I mean Fox News was only relevant to them in the last several elections.

Goo_bubbs ,

The next time there’s an election that the Republicans try to steal, X (formerly Twitter) will now work to back up their lies completely. That’s what’s really happening here.

AndyLikesCandy ,

Not QUITE how Twitter works, Democrats can pay for ads and run all the psyops they want with fake accounts too.

Question is whether any Chinese or Russian intelligence teams decide targeting messages at lefties is going to contribute towards their goals as a whole.

avater ,
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

ah our dayli reminder that Elon Musk is a cunt and as always he delivers!

phoenixz ,

So Putin told you to do this? I mean, why else would you do something so blatantly stupid?

prole ,

🤡

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Elon Musk-owned social network formerly named Twitter has reportedly cut half of its election integrity team just weeks after saying it would expand the group.

Now operating under the name X, Musk’s firm “is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud on the platform, including the head of the group, according to three people familiar with the situation,” The Information reported yesterday, adding:

The cuts hit all four Dublin-based members of the team, including Aaron Rodericks, its leader, who is based in Ireland, the people familiar with the matter said.

In response he said he received “a barrage of threatening, and abusive messages” from persons who wrongly believed the posts were an attempt by X to censor free speech and influence election outcomes.

But on August 29, X said it was “expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats.”

Using nearly identical language as last month’s announcement, she said X is “expanding the safety and election teams all around the world to focus on combating things like manipulation, surfacing of inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for any emerging threats.”

The original article contains 739 words, the summary contains 203 words. Saved 73%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

They were being fair and balanced, not favoring a particular candidate or party. This of course is not what Musk intended, so they got the axe.

maxenmajs ,
@maxenmajs@lemmy.world avatar

I have run out of surprised reactions to his bullshit.

21Cabbage ,

It’s modern social media, not pedalling conspiracy theories is bad for business.

AndreTelevise ,

If 4chan made Trump win in 2016, Twitter might make Trump win in 2024. Which is a scary thought. Just imagine the level of control one rich man can have over the information highway, Twitter, one of the biggest social media sites in the world, used still by many politicians, journalists and reporters on both sides. It’s happening.

toallpointswest ,
@toallpointswest@mastodon.cloud avatar

@L4s Funny how musk fears the truth

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

I’m about 75% certain this guy has no idea which words are coming out of his mouth.

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