#elonmusk

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You understand that Big Tech is getting too powerful when they try to undermine governments that regulate them.

Elon Musk has been pushing for countries to leave the EU due to regulation and associated fines. Meta has been behaving in a similar way.

Are you not happy that you are here?

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/x-deactivates-european-commissions-ad-account-after-the-company-was-fined-e120m/?utm_campaign=social&utm_source=threads&utm_medium=organic

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Nach der - Strafe gegen ließ der rechtsdualistische X-er den Account unserer (übrigens konkordanzdemokratisch besetzten) EU - sperren!

Ich sehe das so: Wer weiterhin diesen rechtsdrehenden, antisozialen mit oder gar füttert, opfert für die und für alle sichtbar auch demokratische & . https://www.politico.eu/article/x-axes-european-commissions-ad-account-after-e120m-eu-fine/

Una investigación más sobre el algoritmo del birdsite concluye que Musk se está asegurando de que su casa sea un bar de nazis:

«Left-wing users saw almost the same amount of left-wing and right-wing content, even though they only followed left-wing accounts. But only 14% of the political content sent to our right-leaning users was left-wing. The neutral users saw twice as much right-wing content as left-wing content». https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487

"Earlier this year, Elon Musk built a gas-burning power plant large enough to power a small city, claimed it was exempt from air pollution laws, and placed it next to Boxtown, a Black neighborhood in Memphis where he had built a new data center. People in Boxtown started breathing polluted air – and dying faster. This is what the AI bubble looks like today." - Dwaign Tyndal





’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
’s decision to show where accounts are based is positive step in transparency, which has let troll and spam accounts proliferate since ’s purchase. And yet scale of deception suggests that in his haste to turn X into a political weapon for the , Musk may have revealed platform he’s long called “the number 1 source of news on Earth” is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/
https://archive.ph/erSsG

"Although DOGE is gone, its malign legacy endures. Arguably DOGE’s biggest 'achievement' was shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development. And the dismantling of USAID has left a legacy of death. According to one recent study, closing the agency 'has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.'”

~ Paul Krugman


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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-was-a-harbinger-of-trumps-assault

Kurznachrichtendienst X: Neue Herkunftsangabe bei Konten sorgt für Aufregung

Auf X kann man seit dem Wochenende einsehen, aus welchem Staat Konten befüllt werden und teilweise passt das gar nicht zu deren Angaben. Die Aufregung ist groß.

https://www.heise.de/news/Kurznachrichtendienst-X-Neue-Herkunftsangabe-bei-Konten-sorgt-fuer-Aufregung-11088663.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon