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Off Topic Social Media and the death of Twitter

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  1. Ron Burguvdy

    Ron Burguvdy Well-Known Member

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    6/12 with, I am borderline proud to say, 11 guesses
     
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    6. Nearly all guesses (I'm proud to say)
     
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    4 for me, all guesses yet again I disappoint myself, mustn't try harder. :emoticon-0138-think


    The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
     
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    2 out of 10 and one of those was the Ronaldo one.
     
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    Five, all guesses for me as well.
     
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    I got 7 but 5 were guesses
     
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    please log in to view this image
     
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    Interesting times with Facebook and Instagram now scrapping independent fact checkers
     
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    FACT


    (to suck up to Trump, the incoming President of Greenland, of course)
     
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    Greenlands Army is ready

     
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    It won’t make any difference, Facebook is full of scammers who Meta are more than happy to facilitate, as long as they’re getting add revenue from them.
     
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    I didn't even know Facebook had independent fact checkers.
     
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    fact

    or unfact?
     
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    This makes me quite angry. I don't like the way US style "free speech" (i.e. the right to say what ever you feel like even if it isn't true) is being forced on the rest of the world by a few BigTech Oligarchs only interested in their own profits. It's ruined Twitter already.

    It won't effect you lot but I hope the EU regulates social media much more tightly especially with respect to election interference.
     
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    you only need to see musk is starting to get involved in uk politics
     
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    The current EU rules, which only came in last year, don't go anywhere near far enough.
     
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    Out of interest, why is he?

    He's sending rockets into space, electric cars driving over the world, a social media site, why does he give a **** about Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson. The racially-driven gang rapes of children in the UK is horrific and the lack of adequate investigation and then the sentencing is scandalous, but there's thousands of scandals closer to home that he could focus on.
     
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