I think one of the things Musk failed to understand is that Fox only survives due to cable carriage fees.
Almost all right wing media in the US is subsidized because it’s toxic to advertisers, who (mostly) don’t want to associate with 24/7 fear and outrage and who would prefer to market to young people with money.
Sure, you can turn the dial up on right winger shit, but you can’t do that and have a profitable social media site.
The invaluable Tech Dirt provides details. Elon doesn’t really seem like a “details” guy.
But this is a misreading/misunderstanding of how things work. This had nothing to do with any “influence campaign.” The law already says that if the FBI is legally requesting information for an investigation under a number of different legal authorities, the companies receiving those requests can be reimbursed for fulfilling them.
(a)Payment.—Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), a governmental entity obtaining the contents of communications, records, or other information under section 2702, 2703, or 2704 of this title shall pay to the person or entity assembling or providing such information a fee for reimbursement for such costs as are reasonably necessary and which have been directly incurred in searching for, assembling, reproducing, or otherwise providing such information. Such reimbursable costs shall include any costs due to necessary disruption of normal operations of any electronic communication service or remote computing service in which such information may be stored.
But note what this is limited to. These are investigatory requests for information, or so called 2703(d) requests, which require a court order.
Yeah, so, now that I have space to talk again, I will say here that I genuinely believe that Elon Musk is Anthony Elonis, and that he “bought” Twitter in the typical sense in which “billionaires” (people who collect bills, many of them fraudulent, many of them based on illegitimate or imaginary debts) buy companies (via “hostile takeover”).
The eerie similarity of their names is notable, but the strongest evidence of this fact is Twitter’s insistence on not taking threats of violence seriously and rating bogus, “woke” moral offenses more seriously than violations of the federal threats statute. Which just so happens to be the exact statute Elonis was convicted of violating.
For anyone who doesn’t know, after SCOTUS issued its decision in the case, it was remanded to the Third Circuit, which held that it was harmless error for the jury to have been instructed on the wrong standard for assessing the defendant’s intent (the mens rea element of the crime).
I agree with both holdings, of course: from SCOTUS, that, under the federal statute, the state has to show that the defendant communicated the threat to the victim intentionally; with the Third Circuit, that the exact wording of the jury instructions doesn’t matter in Elonis’ particular case, because his explicit threatening verbiage and posting the messages on Facebook where his wife could easily see them (and he likely just threatened her again to ensure that she would) were so obviously threats of violence that any rational jury would have reached the same conclusion.
Rolling out a feature, an impression counter, and not having Twitter break, while having half the workforce. So far the mass firing hasn’t lead to the worst case scenario. knock on wood or maybe not.
You could always see your impression counts in your stats or whatever. Assuming they already track views on a per post basis, exposing it to the user might not have been that much dev work.
As someone who hasn’t been following FSD developments closely, a couple things here were lol-worthy
CEO Elon Musk promised shareholders a self-driving car from Tesla would be capable of a cross-country trip without human intervention by the end of 2017. That plan has been delayed.
It also sells additional features in a package marketed as Enhanced Autopilot or Full Self-Driving in the U.S., which costs $15,000 or a $199 a month.
