twitter has been “x’d” out. Do not expect it to be anything other than a shit show. The X means close the window, goodbye.
If you’re using Twitter as a news source what are you even doing in the first place?
Go to the news outlets directly, the BBC, whoever.
I argue this is the one time I wouldn’t call it Twitter.
This is a problem unique to Elon’s social media’s dumpster, X. He’s actively hindering free speech and free press
Edit: sorry. I read more comments I see I’m wrong and this was an ongoing thing. Here’s my foot in mouth comment for prosperity I guess
tbf lemmy is a very good news source, and sharing and discussing news articles is why reddit was created.
I like it in theory, but the content posted here seems even more politically biased than on Reddit, or at least I’ve found it difficult to find a good sample from different sides, and neutral content is pretty much not happening. Even in tech, most of it seems to be bashing on Musk or some other billionaire.
I just want to know what’s happening in the world and I want to discuss it. Why does everything need to be so slanted? I really miss /r/neutralnews on Reddit because the mods at least enforced the rule that facts must be cited, which helped quite a bit on nonsense posts.
I like the format, I just don’t think we have the right moderation team and/or userbase to get exactly what I’m looking for. But I’m unwilling to go back to Reddit out of stubbornness, so I settle for lemmy.
Why does everything need to be so slanted?
in defense of some of the content, people like musk are inherently slanted in countering positions, so it’s kind of hard to write neutral opinion articles on the man who literally bought one of the largest social medias globally, and turned it into a republican disinformation machine for his personal gain.
factual, and fact based reporting is still good though.
Forget that Twitter/X even exists. It’s simple.
Wasn’t it known/confirmed since Twitter made their algorithm partially open source? (I think it was a year ago or so)
My favorite was all the “if elon” code debacles lol. The code was hilarious.
Yeah, he specifically gets boosted across the site, which is why he ended up in everyone’s feeds.
Could learn a lesson or two from that MySpace Tom guy. He might have been my first friend on that site, but he never made a peep after that! I respect him for that.
No one goes to Twitter for news anymore, they go to see where the next Klan meeting is.
