Pretty sure the only gang we have on here is You, FankZ, Memphis and Vers when he's around. You all belittle and gang up on a regular basis - y'all be very good at it. But then this is a classic Trumpian trick. . . accuse others of what you yourself do. Not that you're a trumpian ... just borrowing from his repoitoire. I know for a cast Iron fact OCD and Pit and I have all spent many threads arguing and disagreeing vehemently with each other. But don't let that get in the way of a cute meme.
I get to be in a gang now? Fun times. Is there a membership card?
Nice you can't make a point without "trump trump trumpity trump"
No it is not the same. Compare the two quotes. They are not the same. Nowhere did I call Musk antisemitic.
While I have no idea about this specific instance, often times people say things without knowing or understanding the historical context. As such they can make antisemitic or even racist remarks without being either racist or antisemitic. You're welcome.
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I get to be in a gang now? Fun times. Is there a membership card?
That depends on your perspective. The poster he was actually addressing claimed the other side was a gang. So if one side is seen as gang in that context, then so should the other side be. If you do not share that perspective you would see neither side as a gang.
And we know how much all of you despise trump being brought up. So much so you would rather to try and make those who bring him up more accountable for doing that than making him accountable for all of the things he has done. How precious.
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Well, I think "fringe method of communication" is definitely a stretch.
But he literally, just yesterday, said he does. not. care... in no uncertain terms. He said he will never censor his own speech, language, ideas because he rules Twitter. So, I think a lot of people are caught in a trap of trying to determine what "his cause" is.
Well, I think "fringe method of communication" is definitely a stretch.
But he literally, just yesterday, said he does. not. care... in no uncertain terms. He said he will never censor his own speech, language, ideas because he rules Twitter. So, I think a lot of people are caught in a trap of trying to determine what "his cause" is.
And that's usually the very type of thing people say as an excuse to just spout off and say nasty things without using any self restraint. Because these days it's more about hits to your account and self promotion and attention seeking than anything else. I remember well when the entire "politically correct" topic came to be. How people said how expecting people to be politically correct was wrong. Even at that time I knew what it was all about.
Using excuses to be nasty and hateful while avoiding any actual, rational discussion. And here we are.
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Switch from algo to AI. It’s fighting the training on GOPer logic though. Even in it’s infancy it sees y’all for who you are..
You have no clue what you are talking about when it comes to AI
Oh yes I do, ^ this was not serious, in case you didn’t get that. I don’t have a PHD in machine learning, data science, or anything else; but I’m probably in the high 90s percentile of Americans with my knowledge of it, and know enough to fine tune and train my own or to get paid for business integrations. I have no idea what you do, but I doubt you know more than me, and if you do, you should be teaching instead of siding with monsters to keep it from people. Oh, and while you are at it, do a deep dive on sarcasm and exchanging shots, you could really use it.
Switch from algo to AI. It’s fighting the training on GOPer logic though. Even in it’s infancy it sees y’all for who you are..
You have no clue what you are talking about when it comes to AI
Oh yes I do, ^ this was not serious, in case you didn’t get that. I don’t have a PHD in machine learning, data science, or anything else; but I’m probably in the high 90s percentile of Americans with my knowledge of it, and know enough to fine tune and train my own or to get paid for business integrations. I have no idea what you do, but I doubt you know more than me, and if you do, you should be teaching instead of siding with monsters to keep it from people. Oh, and while you are at it, do a deep dive on sarcasm and exchanging shots, you could really use it.
Without getting into too many particulars ...
One of my core functions is to help project manage and build various technologies for ourselves and our customers which includes 2 subsets of AI.
Why would I teach more people how to build AI?
- AI is not something kids or weekend warriors should be playing with and it is rather upsetting that it is attempted to be passed around like Halloween candy. - 12 months ago there only was about a half-million or so of us who could build and manipulate AI. Now, hundreds of millions can on some level manipulate AI or at least, play with it. - If I had to guess... 99% of people do not have the right tools/mindset to code AI. - Of the remaining 1%.... 97% of those people are not smart enough to know when the AI is wrong or even capable of fixing it. - Because of that, AI should be regulated, registered, and restricted before some "try-hard" weekend warrior destroys a city's power grid, accidentally wipes out hundreds of servers worth of data, or accidentally drive thousands of thousands of cars off the road at once.
Sarcasm is hard to understand unless it is in purple.
It sounds like is you saying is that you are smart enough to play a complex video game but you couldn't write or debug the hundreds of thousands of lines of code to make the complex video game. Got it.
Youre too late to the party. The cat is out of the bag. There are tons of AI out there available to the public. And even if there werent, it would be stupid to pause it because all the rest of the world (competition) is working with it. We cannot get behind with this.
OCD can code so I dont know why you are crabbing at him. And I build simulation games. Its not hard.
It’s fine if you think that. You couldn’t be more wrong. And I didn’t know my post needed an explanation for the AI sensitive. Ask me whatever you want to know, I’d be glad to chat in private or even zoom with you to compare notes. But we definitely see AI different. I see it as a tool, that much like all other tech isn’t fully proved out or vetted in all the ways it can go wrong. Big deal. But a pocket ai that just helps people do little crap to improve their lives rather it be something as simple as budgeting or as complex as using software by voice, small AI isn’t a problem. the problem comes when people have the money to go big, yet have no scruples or morals. And I’m railing against that because unlike you, I don’t trust major corps to do what’s right or the government to regulate it without creating an advantage for the rich. AI can level the playing field in almost every way, or at least that is the potential we will soon realize. And that is all MONEY MONEY MONEY to the dark money corps. Trump doesn’t need a Watson or Deepmind under his control, that’s for damn sure.
Open source AI will keep big players honest, this is where I want to contribute, hopefully in a big way. And scaring people about AI is wrong. IT’S NOT THE GUN IT’S THE PEOPLE… AI is here, can’t put it back in the bottle, regulations or not. If you have the money for the infrastructure to go big, nothing to stop you. If your corrupt, regulations won’t do a thing. Compounding the problems we face in the near future, the inevitable pairing of business, AI, and automation will hit everyone hard. And I think those who don’t learn to incorporate AI into their everyday lives will be antiquated and unemployable. I want to be part of that integration.
Also, I knew you worked in a tech field, but had no idea you worked hands on with AI. I thought we talked about coding another time, can’t remember tbh. Anyway, my AI study IS ongoing. It’s almost impossible to keep up with all that is going on in AI. I started with IBM’s online training, and have learned to train (fine tune) existing models, how to incorporate them in apps. I’ve also learned to train one from a dataset from scratch, but have not attempted anything like that. I’m currently working on something I consider special in an app. If it takes off like I think, I’ll bring receipts, if not, well I must be another script kiddie who doesn’t know python from Roman numerals. And if you’ve been working at it for years, thanks for putting in the leg work.
Hope you wrap around all that, my weed tea kicked in about an hour ago.
AI has a very dangerous potential in ways it can be used in the future. As we all know, if humans can find a way to abuse and weaponize something, they will.......
Artificial intelligence pioneer leaves Google and warns about technology's future
Geoffrey Hinton, a trailblazer in AI, has joined the growing list of experts sharing their concerns about its rapid advancement.
The "godfather of AI" is issuing a warning about the technology he helped create.
Geoffrey Hinton, a trailblazer in artificial intelligence, has joined the growing list of experts sharing their concerns about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. The renowned computer scientist recently left his job at Google to speak openly about his worries about the technology and where he sees it going.
“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things,” Hinton said in an interview with The New York Times.
Hinton is worried that future versions of the technology pose a real threat to humanity.
“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” he said in the interview. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”
Hinton, 75, is most noted for the rapid development of deep learning, which uses mathematical structures called neural networks to pull patterns from massive sets of data.
Like other experts, he believes the race between Big Tech to develop more powerful AI will only escalate into a global race.
Hinton tweeted Monday morning that he felt Google had acted responsibly in its development of AI, but that he had to leave the company to speak out.
Jeff Dean, senior vice president of Google Research and AI, said in an emailed statement: “Geoff has made foundational breakthroughs in AI, and we appreciate his decade of contributions at Google. I’ve deeply enjoyed our many conversations over the years. I’ll miss him, and I wish him well! As one of the first companies to publish AI Principles, we remain committed to a responsible approach to AI. We’re continually learning to understand emerging risks while also innovating boldly.”
Hinton is a notable addition to a group of technologists that have been speaking out publicly about the unbridled development and release of AI.
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, the co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology, spoke with “Nightly News” host Lester Holt in March about their own concerns around AI.
“What we want is AI that enriches our lives. AI that works for people, that works for human benefit that is helping us cure cancer, that is helping us find climate solutions,” Harris said during the interview. “We can do that. We can have AI and research labs that’s applied to specific applications that does advance those areas. But when we’re in an arms race to deploy AI to every human being on the planet as fast as possible with as little testing as possible, that’s not an equation that’s going to end well.”
An open letter from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, which was signed by 19 current and former leaders of academic society, was released last month warning the public of the risks around AI and the need for collaboration to mitigate some of those concerns.
“We believe that AI will be increasingly game-changing in healthcare, climate, education, engineering, and many other fields,” the letter said. “At the same time, we are aware of the limitations and concerns about AI advances, including the potential for AI systems to make errors, to provide biased recommendations, to threaten our privacy, to empower bad actors with new tools, and to have an impact on jobs.”
Hinton, along with scientists Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun, won the Turing Award in 2019, known as the tech industry’s version of the Nobel Prize, for their advancements in AI.
Hinton, Bengio and LeCun were open about their concerns with AI but were optimistic about the potential of the technology, including detecting health risks earlier than doctors and more accurate weather warnings about earthquakes and floods.
“One thing is very clear, the techniques that we developed can be used for an enormous amount of good affecting hundreds of millions of people,” Hinton previously told The Associated Press.
As with most things, AI in and if itself is not inherently evil and can be a tool of great value. But also as with most things if left unchecked can be very destructive as well.
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Twitter threatens legal action against Meta over its new rival app Threads
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new text-based app called Threads, which has drawn tens of millions of users since launching this week as a rival to Elon Musk’s social media platform.
In a letter Wednesday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a “copycat” app.
The move ramps up the tensions between the social media giants after Threads debuted Wednesday, targeting those who are seeking out alternatives to Twitter amid unpopular changes Musk has made to the platform since buying it last year for $44 billion.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote Thursday on Threads: “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing.”
In the letter, which news website Semafor first reported Thursday, Spiro said Twitter “intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights” and noted the company’s right to seek civil remedies or a court injunction.
He said the letter marked a “formal notice” for Meta to preserve documents relevant for a potential dispute between the companies.
In a reply to a tweet about the possibility of legal action against Meta, Musk wrote: “Competition is fine, cheating is not.”
The Associated Press reached out to Spiro on Thursday for further information. Twitter responded to an email seeking comment with a crude automated reply, its standard response to journalists.
New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has not publicly commented on the letter but appeared to address Threads’ launch.
“We’re often imitated — but the Twitter community can never be duplicated,” Yaccarino tweeted.
Some analysts say Meta’s new offering, billed as a text-based version of the photo-sharing app Instagram, could be a significant headache for Twitter — pointing to the excitement surrounding Threads’ launch and impressive download numbers so far.
But success isn’t guaranteed. Industry watchers point to Meta’s track record of starting standalone apps that were later shut down and note that Threads is still in its early days.
Besides some glitches and gripes about missing features, Meta’s new app also has raised data privacy concerns. While Threads launched in more than 100 countries, it is notably unavailable in the European Union, which has strict data privacy rules.
Meta’s new Twitter rival app Threads gets tens of millions of sign-ups in its first day
Tens of millions of people have quickly signed up to Meta’s new app, Threads, as it aims to compete with Twitter — a sign that users are looking for an alternative to the social media platform that has undergone a series of unpopular changes since Elon Musk bought it.
Meta Platforms’ CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that 30 million people had registered for the app, including 10 million in the first seven hours of its launch Wednesday in the U.S. and over 100 other countries, including Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan.
Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta’s photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides “a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations.”
Instagram users can log in with their existing usernames and follow the same accounts on the new app, giving Threads users a ready-made audience and an edge over other Twitter challengers like Bluesky and Mastodon.
“I think I’ll just see — I’ll keep Twitter for a while and then if everyone moves over there (to Threads), then I’ll probably move,” said Javi de Andreas, a 24-year-old researcher in London.
He added that Instagram “feels like a bit more reliable just in terms of nothing really changes.”
There was plenty of excitement among Threads users about the opportunity to make a fresh start on a new social media app, giving Threads a “first day of school” vibe.
Early adopters included celebrities like chef Gordon Ramsay, pop star Shakira and actor Jack Black as well as Airbnb, Guinness World Records, Netflix, Vogue magazine and other media outlets.
There were also glitches, annoyance about the lack of a chronological feed and gripes about missing features — raising the question of whether the initial burst of interest would lead to sustained growth that could pose a meaningful challenge to Twitter.
“The euphoria around a new service and this initial explosion will probably settle down,” said Paolo Pescatore, a technology analyst at PP Foresight. “But it is apparent that this alternative is here to stay and will prove to be a worthy rival given all of Twitter’s woes.”
Teething problems for Threads include Zuckerberg’s posts — or Threads as they’re dubbed — not loading in several countries. But his replies to other users did appear.
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri acknowledged the early issues.
“The real test is not if we can build up a lot of hype, but if you all find enough value in the app to keep using it ove time,” Mosseri posted in a thread.
“And there are tons of basics that are missing: search, hashtags, a following feed” and direct messaging, he said. “We’re on it,” but ”it’ll take time.”
Threads does have buttons to like, repost, reply to or quote a thread, and users see the number of likes and replies a post has received. Posts are limited to 500 characters, which is more than Twitter’s 280-character threshold for most users, and can include links, photos and videos up to five minutes long.
Some questioned whether it made sense to seek to combine Twitter and Instagram users, which are two distinct online groups. Twitter is tailored for quick and short updates, while Instagram is best for visually creative posts.
“Some people will want to keep it separate from Instagram for numerous and very good reasons,” Pescatore said. “This is something that Meta might have to address, which could halt its progress.”
Meta’s new offering also has raised data privacy concerns. The company has held off on rolling it out in the European Union, citing regulatory uncertainty.
The 27-nation EU has strict data privacy rules and is set to start enforcing a new set of digital rules aimed at clamping down on Big Tech companies and limiting what they can do with users’ personal information.
Threads could collect a wide range of personal information, including health, financial, contacts, browsing and search history, location data, purchases and “sensitive info,” according to its data privacy disclosure on the App Store.
Threads poses a fresh headache for Musk, who acquired Twitter last year for $44 billion. Analysts said combining Twitter-style features with Instagram’s look and feel would drive user engagement.
Musk has made a series of changes that have triggered backlash, the latest being daily limits on the number of tweets people can view to try to stop unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data.
You can get help for that if you so choose. I've been watching Twitter devolve ever since Musk purchased it. I didn't need an article to tell me that. I've watched as he has allowed lies, conspiracy theories and the clutter that's tearing our nation apart be posted there. It's not my fault you haven't been paying attention.
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What does that have to do with anything? You do realize up until a few days ago you could view Tweets and accounts without being a member, correct? So I've seen some of the wacko stuff that's been permitted back on there since he purchased it. Anyone could find out who he allowed back on there and how much value Twitter lost. So while you're reaching to try and make a point, you really don't have a point.
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My point is Twitter has ALWAYS been a platform filled with people lying (politicians and otherwise), hate, conspiracy theories, "wacko stuff", etc. virtually since it's existence. This angle being spread that Twitter has just only now been riddled with this since Musk took over is being sold by journalists and clowns and sheep everywhere willingly soak it up because it makes feel warm and fuzzy inside, politically.
Anybody, and I mean anybody, who has had an account for years prior to Musk taking over would say the same. If not, they are lying. To claim that this came about all of a sudden because someone else bought Twitter, who you don't like, is stupid and uninformed. This is why I asked if you have an account, which clearly you don't. If you did, you would know this. I'll venture to say that you never even had an inclination to routinely look at twitter or tweets of people pre-Musk because the slanted articles you read never addressed it until the sale was made a political issue. You'll let the articles and journalists dictate your viewpoints for you because you don't have a broader understanding of twitter over the years.
So my original comment still stands and enjoy blindly following this topic.
At DT, context and meaning are a scarecrow kicking at moving goalposts.
There was a much larger effort to keep it in check before Musk took over. No, it certainly wasn't stopped, but there was an effort to contain it and that effort was at least partly successful. There was far less of it and it wasn't welcomed and embraced with open arms. Enjoy believing what I posted isn't true. I know places like the Babylon Bee which is owned by the supposed Christian entrepreneur named Seth Dillon is one of your favorite places but his rhetoric was stopped on there too.
These formerly banned Twitter accounts have been reinstated since Elon Musk took over
Elon Musk promised to bring former former president Donald Trump back to Twitter once he took over the social media platform. Over the weekend, the Tesla CEO made good on the promise, reinstating Trump's account after a slim majority of respondents to an online poll by Musk voted for Trump's return.
As of Monday, the handle @realDonaldTrump boasted 87 million followers. It has not posted a tweet since Jan. 8, 2021.The former president is one of several one-time pariahs who have been welcomed back under Twitter's new management, along with other formerly banned accounts. Following is a list of accounts that have been restored to Twitter in recent days.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
The Republican congresswoman's personal account was banned in January for violating the platform's COVID misinformation policies at the time. Greene had criticized COVID-19 vaccines as ineffective and railed against policies mandating vaccination and masking in public spaces.
Greene's personal Twitter account was reinstated as of Monday afternoon. She posted the news from her official congressional Twitter account, @RepMTG.
"I'm the only Member of Congress the unelected big tech oligarchs permanently banned," Greene tweeted. "My account is back. Go follow @mtgreenee for MTG unfiltered ;)"
Babylon Bee
The satirical right-wing outlet was suspended in March after tweeting an anti-trans joke about Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine. That month, USA Today named Levine a top "Woman of the Year"; the Bee responded by naming Levine "Man of the Year," violating Twitter's hateful conduct policy.
Regaining access to Twitter at the time required the publication to delete the offensive tweet, but the Babylon Bee refused.
"Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it. We won't compromise the truth just to keep our account," CEO Seth Dillon wrote March 22.
After the Bee's account came back on Friday, the publication tweeted: "We're back. Let that sink in." Kathy Griffin
The comedian was thrown off Twitter November 6 after she impersonated Elon Musk, changing her Twitter name to his.
After Griffin was banned, Musk announced a new Twitter policy, saying: "Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying 'parody' will be permanently suspended."
During her lockout, Griffin took over her late mother, Maggie Griffin's account, to demand her reinstatement. "I'm back from the grave to say…#FreeKathy #TipIt," the account tweeted. (It has since been hidden.)
Musk announced on November 18 that Griffin had regained access to her Twitter account. Griffin responded on Instagram, calling out Musk for misspelling of her name, tweeting:
"Dear Eilon. You f**ked up, fool. I'm going downstairs to my basement of heads. You're up. Xxoo, The Beheader 💅" Jordan Peterson
The conservative psychologist and self-help author was suspended this summer, before Musk's takeover. Peterson had referred to actor Elliott Page by his former name, which violates Twitter's policies on harassment.
After his suspension, Peterson declared in a 15-minute video that he would not delete the offending tweet in order to regain access to his account, concluding with the defiant line: "Up yours, woke moralists. We'll see who cancels who!"
Reinstated on November 18, Peterson thanked Musk with a photo from "The Shining."
Peterson then immediately called for anonymous accounts on the platform to be eliminated, saying that "anonymous troll-demons" should be put "in their own hell." The tweet prompted Twitter founder Jack Dorsey to weigh in and say eliminating anonymity "would be a big mistake."
Andrew Tate
The kickboxer-turned-internet personality was banned from Twitter in 2017 after controversial tweets saying that women should bear "some responsibility" for being sexually assaulted.
"Sexual harassment is disgusting and inexcusable. However. A man looking at you or whistling at you or asking your name isn't harassment," Tate tweeted, according to Metro. "Take some personal responsibility. This zero blame game is damaging to the female cause as a whole. Protect yourselves," he said. Tate has also said that women "are given to the man and belong to the man" and proclaimed he would rather date a 19-year-old woman than a 26-year-old because the younger woman has "been through less dick."
Earlier this year, Tate was banned from Instagram, Facebook and TikTok after a viral Instagram post that said Tate was teaching boys to be violent misogynists.
After regaining Twitter access, Tate posted a video of himself smoking a cigar on an airplane, saying he was flying to California in order to "walk into Twitter HW and tell @elonmusk he's a legend." Project Veritas
The conservative media group — known for producing undercover videos that purport to show liberal bias in the press — was suspended from Twitter in 2021 for disclosing people's private information, a charge it denied.
The group's account had been reinstated on Sunday. It posted a message of gratitude:
"Thank you @ElonMusk for reinstating the Project Veritas Twitter account and for standing up for real investigative journalism," the group said. It teased a Nov. 29 release featuring a "brave whistleblower inside the federal government" speaking about child trafficking. Ye
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West returned to Twitter on Sunday.
"Testing Testing Seeing if my Twitter is unblocked," Ye wrote Sunday afternoon. Musk responded shortly after, writing, "Don't kill what ye hate / Save what ye love."
Ye was locked out of his Twitter account in October after violating Twitter's policies. The rapper had posted several antisemitic statements, including a now-deleted Tweet about "going def con 3 on Jewish people." Will anti-Trump users leave Twitter?
Changes on the platform have led some high-profile users to call it quits.
Musician Jack White over the weekend deactivated the Twitter account of his label, Third Man Records. In an Instagram post explaining the decision, White called Trump's reinstatement "absolutely disgusting."
"You intend to give platforms to known liars and wash your hands like pontius pilate and claim no responsibility?" White said. "[T]his is straight up you trying to help a fascist have a platform so you can eventually get your tax breaks. I mean, how many more billions do you need that you have to risk democracy itself to obtain it?"
White praised Musk's work with Tesla and said he was a supporter of that effort, but said that welcoming Trump back showed that Musk had gone "too far."
"I am a believer in free speech, but for example I'm not about to let the KKK hold a rally at our record label's performance stage," White said.
Twitter traffic is ‘tanking’ as Meta’s Threads hits 100 million users
User traffic on Twitter has slowed since the launch of Meta
User traffic on Twitter has slowed since the launch of Meta’s text-based platform Threads, which has already surpassed 100 million sign-ups since its debut last week.
Threads launched in the U.S. on Wednesday and is being touted by Meta executives like Instagram chief Adam Mosseri as a more positive “public square” for communities “that never really embraced Twitter.” So far, users seem to be on board.
“Threads reached 100 million sign ups over the weekend. That’s mostly organic demand and we haven’t even turned on many promotions yet. Can’t believe it’s only been 5 days!” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post Monday.
Twitter appears to have taken a hit. Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, shared a screenshot to Twitter Sunday showing that traffic on the platform was “tanking.”
According to Similarweb, a data company that specializes in web analytics, web traffic to Twitter was down 5% for the first two full days Threads was generally available compared with the previous week. The company said Twitter’s web traffic is down 11% compared with the same days in 2022.
Twitter responded to CNBC’s request for comment with an automated response. Meta didn’t offer additional comment beyond Zuckerberg’s post.
The booming growth on Threads is helped by the fact that it is tied to an existing social network, Meta’s Instagram. Users can sign up with their existing handles on Instagram and are able to retain some of their following as others sign up for the app.
Threads reached the 100 million milestone even faster than OpenAI’s generative chatbot ChatGPT, which surpassed 100 million monthly users in two months.
The app still has lots of room to grow, having not yet launched in Europe, where Mosseri said there is still some regulatory complexity to navigate. If Threads is able to retain its userbase, it could solidify its position as a real competitor for Twitter, which reported nearly 238 million monetizable daily active users in its last quarterly earnings report as public company last summer.
Twitter owner Elon Musk appears to have already shown some concern about Threads, as his longtime lawyer Alex Spiro wrote a letter to Meta accusing the company of “unlawful misappropriation” of trade secrets.
Musk and Zuckerberg were also taking shots at one another over the weekend, as Zuckerberg mocked Musk’s tweet style and Musk called Zuckerberg a derogatory name.
In the most childish news of the week...............
Someone's got to put an end to the Musk vs. Zuck billionaire 'dick measuring contest' before Elon gets his ruler out
Twitter user @elonmusk, who happens to own the social media platform, took to the interwebs on Sunday night to do what some men might have done in the wild days of their riotous, unbridled youth: Suggest a "dick measuring contest."
Yep, complete with a ruler emoji and all.
And the competitor Musk wants to measure up to? None other than jiu-jitsu enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and the target of Musk's ire long before Threads launched.
It's unclear what sparked the sudden interest on Musk's part in whipping out a ruler to quash his Zuckerberg beef. But Musk was tweeting about penises an awful lot over the weekend, so maybe he had his own measurements in mind.
It's worth noting that this contest is nothing more than a proposal so far, and Zuck, as of press time, has not responded. But the cage match Musk suggested in June also started out as a joke — at least until Zuckerberg took the bait and asked Musk to send over the location for fight night. No concrete details have been firmed up for the fight, though a pay-per-view Zuck-man vs. Chief Twit brawl is far preferable to the genuinely heinous folly Musk is now suggesting.
Should Zuck decide to throw down his fly — and given how high he must be on the launch of Threads right now, there's no guarantee he won't — someone, anyone, would really need to step in. Is this our future? Billionaires, unbound by laws, sending us pictures of their hogs? This aggression cannot stand.
Perhaps there could be a rational referee — maybe Maye Musk, who's been trying to prevent her son from throwing down with Zuckerberg in the Vegas Octagon — to end this madness? She's been known to scold her son occasionally, so maybe she can make him see reason where no one else can.
Good luck, Momma Musk; you're the hero we need in this darkest of timelines.
This is what real Alphas do, bro. Use all that high IQ just to end up Creating social media to challenge each other to a cage match.
That’s top G stuff. Matt Walsh will tell you all about what it means to be a real man.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Neither of us, nor most true alphas are above a dick measuring contest, the difference being we actually have one with the balls to throw it out there… just saying. This is more of a cuck fight. A hard woman like Ronda Rousey would clean the floor with both of them and probably ‘measure up’ bigger too. #Facts.
And if that cage match ever happens, Zuck wins hands down. Elon looks like an overstuffed 50 year old pastry puff comparatively. He should never be seen shirtless again. Yuck.
Twitter, now X, threatens suit against nonprofit studying hate speech and misinformation
Elon Musk’s latest legal adversary: a nonprofit that studies hate speech and misinformation on social media.
On July 20, X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, sent a letter to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, or CCDH, threatening to sue the British research nonprofit. It alleged that the CCDH made “inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions about Twitter” and suggested it conspired “to drive advertisers off Twitter by smearing the company and its owner.”
The letter follows CCDH research published in June, which studied the propagation of hate speech on the social media platform since Musk’s buyout. In one report looking at 100 different accounts subscribed to Twitter Blue, CCDH found that X Corp. failed to act on 99% of hate posted by the subscribers and questioned whether the social media platform’s algorithm boosts “toxic tweets.”
Other CCDH research found that the social media company failed to act on 89% of anti-Jewish hate speech and 97% of anti-Muslim hate speech on the platform.
A spokesperson for X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This month, Musk said that the social media platform’s cash flow remains negative amid a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue.
In a release, Imran Ahmed, CEO of the CCDH, said that Musk’s actions attempt to “silence honest criticism and independent research.”
“Advertisers are fleeing his platform for one clear reason: Elon Musk has supported the proliferation of hate and racism on it, and he doesn’t care to stop it,” Ahmed said, adding, “This should be the last time anyone dares to claim Musk is a ‘free speech absolutist.’”
The letter from X Corp. to CCDH is one of a handful of legal threats or actions by the company in recent months.
In May, X Corp. sent a letter to Microsoft
CEO Satya Nadella alleging that the tech giant abused its access to Twitter data and used it “for unauthorized uses and purposes.” In July, the company threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads app, alleging “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.” Also in July, X Corp. filed a lawsuit against Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, the corporate law firm that prevented Musk from backing out of his $44 billion Twitter buyout.
It seems free speech only applies when it's hate speech that you wish to allow being heard. But not when someone points that out. Why do such crazy lawsuits sound so familiar?
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