• AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      See this same pointless comment in every thread about twitter. Yes, there are an absolute ton of stupid people in the world. Copy pasting this same shitty comment won’t change that, but hey that gives you free up votes even though that literally doesn’t matter.

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          4 months ago

          How is pretending that X is irrelevant “resisting X”?

          If anything, it comes across as if you are trying to hand wave the issue away. Elon Musk is using the platform to manipulate a huge number of people during an election, and you come in implying that nobody uses X.

          There are ~335,000,000 monthly active X users. That’s a significant captive audience to be on the receiving end of right-wing propaganda.

          Anyone insinuating that X is not a popular site, and not a vector for election misinformation to propagate, are themselves spreading misinformation, and are ultimately carrying water for propagandists.

          Don’t do that.

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              4 months ago

              Nobody said anything about deleting accounts or not using Twitter. You’re just making shit up.

              The comment was “People still use X?”, which is clearly a phrased as rhetorical question intended to suggest that people don’t use X anymore. Hundreds of millions of people use X, so this is an outright lie. That it is being used to dismiss allegations of widespread disinformation only makes the lie more problematic.