@ooli to World NewsEnglish • 7 months agoA Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developerwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square54arrow-up1408arrow-down110
arrow-up1398arrow-down1external-linkA Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developerwww.businessinsider.com@ooli to World NewsEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square54
minus-squareFlying SquidMlinkEnglish6•7 months agoThey really needed to get a statement from Twitter on this. I assume they asked. How are we supposed to know whether or not there was a poop emoji?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoThey tried: no company named “Twitter” exists.
minus-squareFlying SquidMlinkEnglish3•7 months agoWhen Elon stops allowing deadnaming on his website, I’ll stop deadnaming his website.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•7 months agoI’ll happily call it X because it was such a monumentally stupid idea to try to change the name, and if ‘X’ actually caught on it would be much worse for ‘X’.
They really needed to get a statement from Twitter on this. I assume they asked. How are we supposed to know whether or not there was a poop emoji?
They tried: no company named “Twitter” exists.
When Elon stops allowing deadnaming on his website, I’ll stop deadnaming his website.
I’ll happily call it X because it was such a monumentally stupid idea to try to change the name, and if ‘X’ actually caught on it would be much worse for ‘X’.