I love how, despite Musk’s best efforts, 3/4 of the internet still calls the site Twitter.
We were going to keep calling it Twitter no matter what, but it feels even better knowing how much he loves deadnaming.
“They call it deadnaming because it’s dead. My [Twitter] is dead.”
I also like Xitter, because in my head that can only be pronounced Shitter, which is a good name for it.
You could also pronounce it like Exitter and it still works.
And there is a whole South Park episode with this name.
Let's jusy call it Shitter, then.
Hmm, but then we're outwardly dissing it and we can't confidently put it in serious reporting.
And aren't technically respectful disses the best?
My association with X is "Not Wayland".
Musk will continue being upset with institutions for pulling ads over his favorite content
What the fuck does the world bank need to advertise for?
Trust us, we are printing all this money for your own good.
Your. Own. Good.
Something like that I assume.
The world bank isn't involved so much in printing money - that's central banks like the US Federal Reserve or European Central Bank.
They do love to force developing nations to adopt US-style capitalism by withholding loans for needed development projects. They also focus far too much on increasing GDP at all costs and do not give really any weight to increasing living standards or reducing inequality. Basically, think loans to institute Reaganomics and you won't be too far off.
The loans pay for large capital projects (power plants, large-scale irrigation, etc) that are built by the state and then mandated to he handed over to private entities that then charge rents and extract wealth. Not every loan and program is bad, but there's plenty to give pause when they are involved in a project.
lol who would downvote this?
The - I'm pro World Bank and I'm on Lemmy guy?
Is it so hard to believe some people worship power and wealth beyond ethics and social cohesion?
This is also the way of the UN in general oftentimes. Trump's PPP plan came right from the UN playbook with a few tweaks so that even more of his pals could get money.
Public relations
There are some countries in Africa that isn't impoverished enough yet.
Trying to expand their market to the Moon and Mars.
Am i the only one confused about what they thought would happen? Have they not been following the news about twitter for the past year or so? Or were they fine with twitter being covered in nazi stuff until their ad appeared next to one and someone notified them?
They were fine until they specifically were called out on it.
That tweet is so racist that I'm surprised Elon didn't tweet a thinking face emoji reacting to it.
Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend right wing? I mean, Musk is such a stable genius.
/s just in case.
And all he had to do was act like he wanted to back track on the offer and the courts forced the sale through quickly rather than slow things down and consider whether social media should even be a privately owned thing run at the whims of a guy that used that same platform to try to ruin someone's life with a baseless pedophilia accusation because they hurt he's feelings when telling him his sub idea wouldn't work and he was just getting in the way rather than helping anything.
I just wonder if the courts fell for his ploy or if they just played the part they were supposed to and the whole thing was an act.
Also, I don't think it's a coincidence that he spent 44 billion on Twitter and then, after pretty much ruining it, for some reason Tesla shareholders (which are majority institutional shareholders) vote through a 50 billion compensation package for him.
When an organization as problematic as the world Bank won't work with you...
Context below for anyone curious about how shitty the World Bank and IMF are
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/business/world-bank-kenya-schools.html
https://medium.com/@IndependentAcademy/introduction-ad7d83489f1e
https://positivemoney.org/update/modern-day-colonialism-debt-crisis-in-the-global-south/
I dare Elon to sue World Bank.
Musk is learning the lesson Google and Youtube learned years ago with the "adpocalypse". If the whole house of cards depends on ad dollars you have to keep them happy.
Unless Musk is going to take X (Twitter) completely subscription only, or fund it exclusively out of his own pocket, he is not going to get that "anything I want goes" utopia he keeps crowing about.
fund it exclusively out of his own pocket
That's how newspapers got started - they were propaganda organs of the rich and existed exclusively to manipulate public opinion. Things really haven't changed that much, but somewhere along the way people were tricked into paying for them.
Except that libel laws and regulations exist to regulate things like newspapers, not things like random comments by random users you may not even know is a bot account. At the very worst, they can only report on what people are saying and ignore the counterarguments, not present lies as truth. Not that it hasn't been eroded, but it's at least much more costly to attempt to use newspapers for disinformation.
Pretty sure Russia's owners of Twitter really intend it just to be used as a propaganda backwagon platform, like China's TikTok, so the funding does not need to be self-sufficient. As long as they get a critical userbase where they can move their propaganda, nerf the criticism, and can't be taken down because of the ensuing backlash, that's good enough for them.
Capitalism: free markets are the only way if you dont like Nazi shit go somewhere else librulz
Also capitalism: Its literally illegal to not give us money and if you take your money elsewhere we'll sue you!
Lol. Hahahahahaha. Jajajajajajaj.
So Apartheid Boy just said the quiet part out loud?
Color me surprised.
Good. Kill the Twitter.
Thank you Xhitter for blocking ads!
Ha-ha!
Hmmm. Which organization actually empowers the march to fascism globally more? The neo liberal loan sharks or digital Der Stürmer.
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