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Should I step down as head of twitter
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E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010
Taibbi's rear end getting dragged:

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1644064242419617803?s=20

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ccubed
Jul 14, 2016

How's it hanging, brah?
Twitter is no longer policing Russian and Chinese state-backed media

quote:

Twitter is no longer taking steps to limit the reach of Chinese and Russian state-controlled media outlets, violating the social media platform’s own stated policies.
In 2020, Twitter started labeling official government and state-controlled media accounts, and blocked the latter from appearing in search results. The platform announced last year that it would also begin flagging tweets that contained links to government-controlled sites such as RT.com or the Global Times, telling users to “Stay informed” and alerting them that Russia or China had editorial control over the outlet’s coverage.
But in tests conducted by Semafor, the “Stay informed” labels no longer appeared, even though Twitter’s state-affiliated media policy still continues to list the measure as one way it’s providing “additional context for accounts heavily engaged in geopolitics and diplomacy.” And when Semafor searched for Russian and Chinese state-affiliated outlets like Izvestia, Xinhua, and the People’s Daily, their official accounts showed up as some of the top results...

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

Mozi posted:

Looking into it.

Gross

sticksy
May 26, 2004
Nap Ghost

I like the cardboard “Trainwreck” thing with the cutout to put your own face through

Butterwagon
Mar 21, 2010

Lookit that stupid ass-hole!

Don't sleep on this one lol

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Mehdi Hassan is a loving blender set to liquefy for stupid people, why would Matt Taibi ever think it was a good idea to try and explain himself to him... oh right, he's an idiot.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...




That guy's 53 and a real journalist? :psyduck:
It felt like I was watching a college freshman getting completely grilled in class the first time they try to submit a halfassed essay full of BS, and just trying to counter it with "nuh-uh".

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

nine-gear crow posted:

Mehdi Hassan is a loving blender set to liquefy for stupid people, why would Matt Taibi ever think it was a good idea to try and explain himself to him... oh right, he's an idiot.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1639488251760197632

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
I don't know why anyone would go on Medhi Hasan's show. You're gonna get annihilated.

E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010
Musk got rid of the Doge on Twitter, which makes me think it was meant to be an April Fools Day joke but he didn't have enough workers to implement it in time.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008


This is a man who gets a confused look as an obvious error in his reporting is explained to him, then he says "well I stand behind what I wrote, it's accurate", then another confused look when the error is thoroughly explained to him again, and then "well I guess that's a mistake then". That sequence happens like 3 times lol what a fuckin buffoon

e: This is the dude who proudly stated that he's not being paid by Elon Musk at all, he's sucking that dick for free lmao

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Luckily, Taibbi is smart enough to take his lumps and shut the gently caress up.











AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH just kidding, he's spent the last 4 hours on twitter whining about MSNBC

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1644039267939655681

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1644099976979513348

Remember when Stephen King publicly made Elon drop the price of his bad subscription from $20 to $8 and still no one bought it?

IBroughttheFunk
Sep 28, 2012
Yeah, he's been such a whiny little bitch.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1644089975586304001?cxt=HHwWgsDR2efH_dAtAAAA

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

What an utter loving tool. I've seen better performances by college students caught cheating JFC.

And this guy wants to be taken seriously? Lol

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Powershift posted:

Luckily, Taibbi is smart enough to take his lumps and shut the gently caress up.











AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH just kidding, he's spent the last 4 hours on twitter whining about MSNBC

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1644039267939655681

Rachel's making the same face I did when I watched that video of Taibi getting atomized by Mehdi. The "Hoooo-ly poo poo!" face.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
what twitter filez drop number are we even at?


Has Taibbi had to adopt up-arrow notation for the drops yet?

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008


"I stand by my work" after having had to admit to making several glaring errors live on air lmao

Piell
Sep 3, 2006

Grey Worm's Ken doll-like groin throbbed with the anticipatory pleasure that only a slightly warm and moist piece of lemoncake could offer


Young Orc
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1644066633810432016
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1644068650981249052

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe
his twitter avatar represents him after being savaged by tghat hasan guy

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
how old is Taibbi , he seems tooo old to be trying to do the fuckboy look of baseball cap and big headphones.

also lol at it being 3 or 4 years of teleconferencing becoming common and people still dont have proper production standards.

Entorwellian
Jun 30, 2006

Northern Flicker
Anna's Hummingbird

Sorry, but the people have spoken.



PhazonLink posted:

how old is Taibbi , he seems tooo old to be trying to do the fuckboy look of baseball cap and big headphones.

also lol at it being 3 or 4 years of teleconferencing becoming common and people still dont have proper production standards.

53 years old.

The Awesomesaurus
Feb 15, 2006

I'm too cool to be extinct.

Out of all the supporting cast of Elon’s Twitter, Taibbi manages to exude the most amount of loser energy.

Steadiman
Jan 31, 2006

Hey...what kind of party is this? there's no booze and only one hooker!

silly sevens

QuarkJets posted:

"I stand by my work" after having had to admit to making several glaring errors live on air lmao

In any normal world these sort of incredibly basic mistakes should be career ending in journalism. Errors and oversights like this would call into question every other part of his “reporting” because if he can’t even get basic facts right then what does that say about the more complex parts of his research. fortunately he can crawl back into his Twitter safe space to claim he was actually the winner and all his fans will blindly believe he was being bullied. Poor Taibbi, thought of reporting and died

War Wizard
Jan 4, 2007

:)
Lol at being a journalist and having zero criticism of the richest man on earth. loving say he has poo poo fashion sense, whatever. Any criticism at all would at least give a sense that your not a loving yes-man. But no, better to fall on the sword, I guess.

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1644061482441756684

currently following 0 people now lol

tak
Jan 31, 2003

lol demowned
Grimey Drawer

The Butcher posted:

Don't tell him about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which does get federal funding and has a blanket policy on not allowing commenting on anything even remotely about indigenous people because it would take like a whole department to moderate the posts.

Free speech silenced everywhere these days.

they probably just want to make sure people can't see what their racist reporters would say in public about it

I deleted my account but for a while there every couple months I bumped a thread with a bunch of examples from a local reporter being horribly racist about missing and murdered Indigenous women (in actual articles and comments on them no less). never did get any kind of response, and he's still being paid with My Tax Dollars

Lumbermouth
Mar 6, 2008

GREG IS BIG NOW


Matt Taibbi you Carrot Top lookin bitch

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
Even for Matt going on a show by your own choice then whining about him being to mean after is a next level of pathetic

Steadiman
Jan 31, 2006

Hey...what kind of party is this? there's no booze and only one hooker!

silly sevens

CharlestheHammer posted:

Even for Matt going on a show by your own choice then whining about him being to mean after is a next level of pathetic

It’s slightly more embarrassing, Taibbi basically dared Hasan, in true “debate me bro” style, and then refused to talk about any of the crap he said he wanted to discuss when Hasan called his bluf and invited him. He’s trying his best to Shapiro his way out of this but nobody is buying it

armchairyoda
Sep 17, 2008
Melman

I think that’s bc they’ve shut off api access. If you load up https://twitter.com/home and run the developer inspector, you’ll see a steady stream of api call fails BECAUSE EVEN THE HOME PAGE OF TWITTER.COM USED THE ONES THAT THEY KILLED ACCESS TO.

Lmao, just the biggest brainjeniousing

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Not sure how API access would change who @verified follows

BlueBlazer
Apr 1, 2010

kazil posted:

Not sure how API access would change who @verified follows

Because, in an intelligent company. Tools made for outside users are often developed for inside projects before being released.

In this case Musk.Twitter decided to not give a poo poo about any of their own internal uses, not even checking whether anyone was using it before turning it off. Move fast, break things, etc.

Musk deserves to be shoved into a locker.

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

This isn't a twitter-wide thing.

@verified would follow the people it gave checkmarks to. When Musk changed the checks to say "subscription or verified", people were using the follow list to see which it was.

Musk being a baby, had @verified unfollow all of them

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

@verified was probably hooked up to an API to make it automatically follow new verified accounts, but the API breaking wouldn't make it automatically unfollow everyone

a gay lion named Tangiers
Jul 30, 2013
the full interview with taibbi is so much worse than the clips

i'm 10 minutes in and he's getting loving flensed lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a597e6Wv_xg

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!
They had one intern manually unfollow each

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

Roose is loose.
🐓🐓🐓✊🪧

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1644103651143860224?s=20

Brain Curry
Feb 15, 2007

People think that I'm lazy
People think that I'm this fool because
I give a fuck about the government
I didn't graduate from high school




Lmao

https://twitter.com/cptyesterday/status/1644150252906373121?s=20

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Man, when you've got CMO's from trillion-dollar megacorps concerned about your racism...

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