Anabelthe1st @Anabelthe1st@social.cleverlibre.org

In April 2013, the official Twitter account of Associated Press was hacked and tweeted that the White House was bombed. For the next few minutes the markets moved wildly and billions were wiped in market cap. FBI and SEC opened an investigation.

These days it takes about 8$ to pull off such a stunt. As we saw today, it wasn't long until someone would put 1 + 1 together.

The exodus of users and advertisers was bad, but wait until most publicly traded companies realize how massively exposed they are due to Twitter's mere existence in its current form. This is not a problem they can solve by just leaving the platform. 🍿

NEW posting on my newsletter “Is This America?” As Twitter enters its death spiral, I wanted to bring our attention back to why the sale of the platform to Musk never should have happened. https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/on-twitters-end?utm_campaign=post

Echoing what other new folk have said: It's not true that "It doesn't matter which instance you join." for Black folk for example, it matters very much. I guess I lucked out joining this instance. Y'all are nice!

It's sorta like those "Best places to live" lists. Most of the top places are horrible to Black folk. There's a different list, which is "Best places to live *for us*." All the same dimensions, but lowest police racism, educational racism, and income inequality for Black folk.

- Fetterman flipped Pennsylvania with a pro-worker platform

- Nebraska raised the minimum wage

- 4 states banned forced prison labor

- D.C. abolished the sub-minimum tipped wage

- Illinois guaranteed the right to collective bargaining

The midterms were HUGE for worker power.

Twitter pulls paid verification after impersonators flourish https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/twitters-subscription-service-not-available-impersonators-flourish-rcna56730

I've done a lot of stupid shit in my life but I never poured gasoline all over 44 billion dollars and set it the fuck on fire

A billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person, according to Oxfam.

We know which ones we need to hold accountable for the climate crisis.

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-billionaires-the-investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446/

Looks like things are going worse and worse on :birdsite:: two top execs, #TrustAndSafety & #AdSales leads left the company and it's not a good sign, especially with T&S one leaving raising tons of privacy & safety concerns

Looks like things are truly spiraling down towards an end for #Twitter

Link to the story:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23452133/twitter-executives-trust-safety-sales-ads-yoel-roth-robin-wheeler

Remarkable how many "genius billionaires" turn out to be frauds:

Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos)

Adam Neumann (WeWork)

Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX)

In just a few days, Musk has made Twitter a complete dumpster fire. This Tweet from a "verified" account (which are no longer actually verified in any way) has been up since yesterday afternoon.

Guess what day it is!
#wakandaforever #blackmastodon #blackpanther2

Live footage from Twitter.

"The entire $16 billion fortune of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has now been wiped out, one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-11/sam-bankman-fried-s-assets-go-from-16-billion-to-zero-after-ftx-collapse

To everyone, like me, who is new here on Mastodon -- I swear, I feel like I'm in Canada, escaping Gilead -- here are two posts by the primary developer of the platform (and owner of the non-profit that holds the trademarks etc) explaining that you should ignore people lecturing you about what you should and shouldn't post here. I now consider this issue settled, and will no longer respond to these folks. Time to embrace Mastodon! Thank you for welcoming us.

Jon Cryer (yes that Jon Cryer aka Duckie from Pretty in Pink, 2 and a Half Men etc) is matching donations for Sen Warnock over at #birdsite It's legit! (Not sure if he's doing it here too)
@mrjoncryer

https://twitter.com/MrJonCryer/status/1590738260212748290?t=SS2TrM2srXooflvCenCMDA&s=19

#RaphaelWarnock #SenatorWarnock #USSenate #GArunoff #USPolitics

It's WAY worse than you already think it is on Twitter. Please read this thread. Be safe.

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1590746170438975488?s=20&t=I_d9Q7em6KleID8FqhPjhA

Well, I’m slowly getting a little more confident and paddling out deeper into the Mastosphere. Trousers now rolled up to the knees and the water not feeling as cold…

4. Prediction-based coverage comes at a high cost because it crowds out the coverage that voters actually need.

To make an informed decision, voters need to know the practical impact of voting for each candidate.

https://popular.info/p/political-media-is-broken