If you want to engage in democracy, consider carefully about where you get advice.
Tag: twitter
Trump & Elon downsizing the government.
Trump administration offers all federal workers Elon Musk Twitter styled job buyout framed as a way to avoid Return To Office mandates.
No social media platform is a safe space – people need to diversify.
I’ve been saying this for years, that people are foolish if there’s only one social media platform where they say something or publish important information. But even among the people who’ve heard me, most have never listened to me. I think mainly because people fall in love with a platform, they are habit forming. They […]
Tiktok is dead, long live tiktok.
All the platforms with their black box manipulative algorithms are problematic.
Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.
Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.
“If you’re not the one paying, you’re not the customer.”
It’s really problematic that so often good information is behind paywalls, and disinformation is of course made free, for maximum spread for deceit.
The same problems continue no matter the platform.
Is it a fresh start for you and me, or for engagement clout chasing influencers making money off our attention?
Twitter was just a tool, a tavern that’s changed hands.
It’s not the world, it never was – even at its height, only a small percentage of Americans were ever even on Twitter.
Best to not look at what twitter is now.
What’s so peculiar is that with each swirl down the toilet, there are people still asking…
