I’d argue it never was anything outside of pulling net celebs names from hats and claiming they were rapists and racists without evidence, and then having them get chased off the internet, destroying their careers in the process and in some cases causing suicides… Unless they actually did it, because then they were rich and could just buy good publicity or start an Alt-Right circle jerk where they can claim “Wokeness” did it.
Comment on Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
To everyone that goes to “X” to get the “real”, unfiltered news, I hope you can see that it’s not that site anymore.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It was never that site the FBI was literally using it for narrative control before Elon bought it
Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
it was the “yell at celebrities” website. The whole “buy a blue check” thing destroyed it.
SeedyOne@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yet, annoyingly, much of the press still uses it to disseminate news.
I understand journalism is in a rough spot these days and many are there against their will but something needs to change abruptly. This slow exodus is too slow for democracy to survive '24.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
They could use Nostr. It’s a bit similar to going to a square and yelling. The downside is that you are not heard from every corner of it, but I just remembered of this existing and thought that actually the idea is very nice.