• Todd Bonzalez
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    41 month ago

    How is pretending that X is irrelevant “resisting X”?

    If anything, it comes across as if you are trying to hand wave the issue away. Elon Musk is using the platform to manipulate a huge number of people during an election, and you come in implying that nobody uses X.

    There are ~335,000,000 monthly active X users. That’s a significant captive audience to be on the receiving end of right-wing propaganda.

    Anyone insinuating that X is not a popular site, and not a vector for election misinformation to propagate, are themselves spreading misinformation, and are ultimately carrying water for propagandists.

    Don’t do that.

    • @[email protected]
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      -11 month ago

      Noone said it wasn’t a real platform nor popular, it is that we can choose to delete our accounts and not use it because of its owner. Simple, done.

      • Todd Bonzalez
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        21 month ago

        Nobody said anything about deleting accounts or not using Twitter. You’re just making shit up.

        The comment was “People still use X?”, which is clearly a phrased as rhetorical question intended to suggest that people don’t use X anymore. Hundreds of millions of people use X, so this is an outright lie. That it is being used to dismiss allegations of widespread disinformation only makes the lie more problematic.

          • Todd Bonzalez
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            11 month ago

            I understand that it is facetious, but the humor in the statement is predicated on oft-repeated misinformation. The “just a joke” rhetoric doesn’t work on me.

            • @[email protected]
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              -11 month ago

              You are defending the use of X which is being used to spread misinformation and my only point is that people should consider NOT using it. I understand that they are using it, which continues to dumbfound me The point is that they are using it and that they should consider not using it!

              • Todd Bonzalez
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                11 month ago

                I’m not defending the use of X, I’m acknowledging the widespread use of X.

                I don’t understand the exercise in deliberately misinterpreting me. Acting like you’re stupid isn’t a good look.