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- That is not a kitchen sink

- Twitter is a telegraph office. Journalists love twitter because it makes their job easier by stealing stories/news from each other. For the world outside media twitter is pretty much meh.

- Musk unbanning someone doesnt mean much. trump might have sent out tweets with carrier pigeons and the mass media would still pick it up because it sells. twitter bans have very little effect, from the covid misinformation to ukraine stuff

- Twitter is not even cool , why is musk so obsessed about it? he will be spending a ton of time in media battles that are pointless , truly

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> twitter bans have very little effect, from the covid misinformation to ukraine stuff

This is false, the ban on Trump had a massive effect on online misinformation. [1] Platforms really do matter.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/16/misinfo...

they are counting twitter retweets after they banned twitterers. how is that even a valid claim

Er, no? That's not at all what the article says.

> The new research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm reported that conversations about election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 mentions across several social media sites in the week after Trump was banned from Twitter.

> Zignal found that the use of hashtags affiliated with the Capitol riot also dipped considerably

100% agree that Twitter is only really important because it's where all the people with voices on other platforms (Youtube, journalists, traditional celebrities, politicians, etc.) spend their time. This gives the platform cultural relevance because these talking heads endlessly feedback on each other, but there aren't enough talking heads or enough of their followers to scale to the size of Facebook.

It was supposed to be "let this sink in"

Who claimed it was a kitchen sink?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2022-10-27/why-did-elo...

https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-shows-twitter-hq-192220624....

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-shows-up-at-twit...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63408384

in twitter fashion i should tag this as #fakenews

Sloppy reporting? In MY mainstream media?!

Currently the linked story, from TechCrunch, doesn't call it a "kitchen" sink. Kudos to them.

It's just a really bad pun on Elon's part. I don't think you can blame the mainstream media for that. I certainly didn't realize what he meant by it until I saw something explaining "let that sink in" because it was never my perspective about this whole thing

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