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Comment by kristianc | Hacker News Reader

That’s exactly it. Musk a week ago was telling us that there were a record number of user seconds on the site. Now he’s telling us they’re all content-scrapers. The very concept of truth is eroded.

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That's what makes it so perfect when he echos conspiracy theories, Russian talking points, and other whacky talking points and elevates untrustworthy sources by tweeting things like "interesting" catapulting them into everyone's feed.

As someone who doesn't use Twitter too much, what conspiracy theories has Musk echoed or platformed?

The most notable one is the Paul Pelosi incident: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/business/musk-tweet-pelosi-co...

When Twitter's working, just search for any tweet where he says "Interesting".

Or Google "Elon Musk conspiracy" and click the top link. I don't know if you'll be able to read the tweets they reference though.

His claim is that there are a few hundred scrapers causing issues, which makes sense given the recent changes to the paid API.

An assumptions of good faith was once a well-held principle on this website, and it's too bad legacy media has led so many astray.

Hatred for Musk has truly captured many otherwise very logical minds.

To assume good faith in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary would be intellectually dishonest, something that is still, fortunately, held in disregard on this site.

In fact there’s a giant list of reasons to assume bad faith with anything Musk says. https://elonmusk.today/

The assumption of good faith for Elon Musk disappeared the moment that he baselessly called someone a pedophile for criticizing him.

Same. Up until that moment he was still somewhat laudable, if weird, at least for casual observers. Then he labeled that guy a pedophile and it’s been pretty much all downhill from there.

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