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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called
(arstechnica.com)
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Just as much of a Musk hater as the rest of them, but this was posted elsewhere. UAW changed their profile photo at the same time they announced the strike, which triggered the flag on the account. Apparently this is standard with all verified accounts until the photo can be reviewed.
Anywho, fuck Elon Musk!
From the original Intercept article:
So, a non-article by somebody who didn't do their research and has already resolved itself. Got it!
Twitter refused to comment prior to the article, Twitter changes their policies like most of us change our underwear, and Twitter is will known to making capricious and spiteful decisions (see also delaying links to domains they don’t like).
Yes, how could anyone be so rude to jump to such conclusions /s
It might be fairer to say the journalists jumped conclusions. But the not doing research part may be accurate.
I mean, the headline is factually correct - maybe there's an explanation for it (which still raises questions of their reliability for real-time organization moving forward), but it also is extremely suspect seeing as Musk initially was going to buy Twitter to "save democracy" by shaping public discourse, and he's very anti-union (auto workers in particular)
Better than even odds this was added thoughtlessly during the impersonator checkmark fiasco (which would still be news), but I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt until I hear from some engineers no longer with Twitter
By this, they mean that any media questions to Twitter get auto-responded to with the poop emoji. Because Musk is a child.
Elon is a big bag of dicks, but it looks like Twitter is no longer replying with poop emojis. From the linked article:
That's literally no different except he got pranked to many times with people going "thoughts on tesla build quality" "💩"
Jesus, you people really are obsessed with trans people's genitals.
Not even on topic and you still manage to chat about them. That's not normal.