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Elon Musk Seems to Think His Own Employees Are Shadowbanning Him

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>The Twitter workers showed the CEO a Google trend chart that illustrates the amount of interest in Musk has fallen by a factor of 10 since April 2022, along with other internal data.

>In a retaliatory outburst, Musk sacked one of the engineers on the spot. “You’re fired, you’re fired,” he declared, according to Platformer’s journalists and attributed to unnamed sources close to the matter.

Holy fuck, I can't believe people still work there.

1) H1-B visas. 2) Mission driven

I expect there could be contexf missing from the exchange.

It would be interesting if there was a red-team shadowban of him. Not outside the realm of possible.

It’s his company. If even his twists are not promoted, what is the sense of the whole enterprise?

Clearly, Musk has still not discovered the covert red team(s) in his base.

That's some Captain Queeg stuff right there. It tracks with categorical statements about how all the conspiracy theories are true.

There was recently a puff piece in the news about how Elon is overworked. But that's no excuse for paranoid redpilled behavior any more than it is for amplifying vatnik propaganda, which he has also recently done.

I've always thought that the "shadowban" meme was more about misunderstanding how big Twitter and The Internet are than anything else.

Seems pretty reasonable. Musk asks why X Y and Z, and a clueless engineer basically says your wrong, nothing to do with the algorithms.

I'm pretty sure it has everything to do with the algorithms, and no one really understands how they work.

I can understand how Elon wants answers about the algorithms, and those answers aren't forthcoming.

Lots of Wierd stuff going on with the algos

Your comment boils down to “Nobody knows how algorithms work” which is the most ignorant bullshit I’ve seen on here in a long time.

Algorithms are by definition the specific ways we have designed computer programs to work. They are by definition knowable and known.

Advertisers are turning away. Wouldn’t the simplest explanation be that fewer people are listening to him because fewer people are interested in what he has to say? No need to raise the absurd and (to the audience here certainly) silly boogeyman of “the unknowable algorithm”

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