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Shouldn't this be verifiable in some way? Like if enough people start posting about mastodon and then comparing their notes?

I see a lot of posts about Elon(twitter) allegedly taking down posts and limiting the reach of posts but I am not sure how much of it to believe. Especially with the limiting claims, I don't know how you would measure when its being artificially limited and when people just don't care to engage with a post.

I don't doubt that there is some level of manipulation going on but that is always the case with social media.

When searching for "Elon" the first result is "Elon Booed". Not sure about earlier, but the related videos are showing up as of now in the results, along with some tweets about posters getting banned.

https://twitter.com/search?q=Elon%20booed&src=typeahead_clic...

A good thread over on mastodon on multiple people finding the same thing. https://mastodon.online/@joshuatopolsky/109501217476449536

PSA Musk has gone full Q-propagandist. Fully de-cloaked.

Ignore the noise, get off the platform, build something better.

(Evergreen: now is also a good time also to dump your TSLA and take the hit and also sell the car.)

Elon is also banning any account that posts the video of him getting booed at a Dave Chapelle show. He was never about free speech.

I saw the video in my feed this morning, and then found several instances later when searching. While I don't doubt the bans happened, I suspect Elon would simply reduce the "reach" of those posts instead which would allow him to deny employing censorship.

> I suspect Elon would simply reduce the "reach" of those posts instead which would allow him to deny employing censorship

I agree we need evidence, since this could just be copyright takedown, but I've also seen no evidence he cares about his own consistency, nor do his fans expect it from him.

You aren't generally allowed to film stand-up shows, are you? Seems like it would be easy to use the copyright excuse to take down an embarrassing video.

The video of the booing could have a copyright claim, by the one who filmed it.

Of course. I also assume it doesn’t make Chapelle look very good, so his team probably has an equal incentive to have it removed.

Edit: ah yes, downvoted. I guess it's controversial now as to whether people booing at someone's show would be something they wouldn't like.

> I suspect Elon would simply reduce the "reach" of those posts instead

It's currently top of trending, so this doesn't appear to be the case.

Even if he wanted to reduce the "reach" of said video, now that "the algorithm" has ahold of it ("trending"), good luck doin' anything "shady" about it now (without it gettin' noticed and ridiculed to high heaven). Totally too late. Elon's just gonna have to cope… ;)

With the number of creative claims I've seen over the past month, I think this deserves a source, or some sort of evidence.

https://twitter.com/CleoPat48937885/status/16022145142329384...

That was posted on reddit and was working now the account is banned.

If that were the case, wouldn't it say "Account suspended" instead of "This account doesn’t exist"?

Yes. This looks staged.

I just clicked it on and it says this account no longer exists.

That means the account was deleted. Banned accounts have a different message e.g. https://twitter.com/infowars

This is reddit's version of what is happening. And certainly would be pretty insane if true. But I will withhold judgement till the evidence is in.

The only thing I saw was a reddit thread linking to a no longer existing account.

The show was in San Francisco, what do you expect? I would pull everything out of the bay area if I was Elon.

Legend: “It sounds like some of those people you fired are in the audience.”

Later in the video, Chappelle says: “All these people that are booing, I’m just pointing out the obvious — they have terrible seats in the stadium.”

It was also at a Chappelle show. His Netflix special was controversial. I'd expect the audience would be more supportive of Elon than the general public.

Certainly fair, if the show was in Alabama and he got a 5 minute standing ovation you think we wound even see news stories and press about it?

Yes, Elon's takeover of Twitter is a hot culture war topic. Sites would run that story.

I think the expectation at this point is that "sites" would de-emphasize a positive reaction and over-emphasize the negative reaction.

I've seen the video on Twitter a ton today and Elon is even responding to some of them? I don't think what you are saying is accurate.

It's better than the previous condition of auto-bans mentioning colloquialisms.

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