r/Maxcactus_TrailGuide • u/Maxcactus • 19h ago

Eyebrows Raise When Elon Musk's Twitter Engagement Shrivels After Destruction of Russian Data Centers

https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-engagement-shrivels-destruction-russian-bot-farm
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u/FIicker7 19h ago

I hope their is a reckoning with Social Media after this.

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u/Benegger85 18h ago

Of course there won't be. Once it's fixed they'll pretend it never happened

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u/NobodyYouKnowISwear 17h ago

What do you mean? It says it in the title, eyebrows have been raised! Rejoice!

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u/Smooth-Weekend-2314 15h ago

I really hope this gets followed up with a sternly-worded letter! That will certainly change their behavior!

🙄

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u/rosibear2 14h ago

Yes, but have pearls been clutched?

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u/GuildStarfireII 14h ago

Somewhere Susan Collins' eyebrow just furrowed.

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u/DidIJustWitnessThat 17h ago

Psh. That will never happen. They'll just deny it is happening, tell you the facts are lies and you don't know what you're talking about.

They're in a cult. And they already have their marching orders, which is to deny that there was ever a time where the Internet lost a bunch of bots.

Even though the rest of the world knows it happened, they think we're all loons, and will just deny it.

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u/Lancair7 14h ago

lol. Lmao, even.

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u/UnicornSheets 13h ago

Hahahaha ha

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u/AdditionalNothing728 13h ago

Remember when Elon tried to get out of the Twitter deal by complaining about how many bots were on the platform?

He never cared about the bots. They’re ultimately one of the only things keeping Twitter alive these days.

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u/clemclem3 18h ago

This is one of those stories that I want to be true, but I haven't really seen any convincing evidence, and I'm just waiting for some to emerge otherwise it goes into the conspiracy bin.

But it does raise the issue of all of social media being a sort of black box. We don't know who the people are that seem to populate the metaverse. Or even if they are 'people.' Am I a person, or a bot? How can you know? Am I working in the basement of an IDF building or a Russian army base? Who can tell?

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u/Maxcactus 18h ago

There is a certain truthiness to it.

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u/Comrade-Conquistador 17h ago

It's almost like there's a direct correlation...Strange, that.

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u/GeorgeFartwell1984 16h ago

WAIT A MINUTE, IS TWITTER OVER VALUED?!

Yes, yes it is.

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u/IwasDeadinstead 16h ago

Who cares. The real concern is how he's going to tap into the vote tabulators and steal another election.

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u/Slighted_Inevitable 15h ago

He won’t, they don’t need to. Democrats will win both the house and senate, and trump will continue ignoring them (like he does with the current Congress) because they won’t have a super majority and he can just veto anything they do.

That will give them two more years to prepare for the dissolution of congress and the courts.

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u/AdditionalNothing728 13h ago

And all of the terrible things with the BBB will start to really go into effect, which they need to be able to blame on Democrats.

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u/IwasDeadinstead 11h ago

He will. Why do you think he brought Elon in the first time?

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u/kwirl 12h ago

ah, thats why he's punishing the ukraine

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u/Felon_musk1939 17h ago

I think the way be doxxed himself with the Lego purchase shows how oblivious he is.

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u/OnkelSchmutzig 17h ago

I'd like the Ukrainians to consider this an international public service, perhaps to be provided on an ongoing, as-needed basis.

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u/Same_Mood_8543 15h ago

He coincidentally blocked Starlink access in Ukraine afterward. Because, you know, coincidence. 

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u/OnkelSchmutzig 15h ago

It put a kink in his election meddling project.

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u/Past-Establishment93 17h ago

Bots are his only friends.

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u/JollyJoker3 15h ago

Could be Russia giving likes to racist shit Musk says so he'll believe it's more popular than rockets or cars.

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u/Userwerd 15h ago

There is so much crap online now too, about how traffic went down because people could not find X on Yandex search. Come on we aren't that dumb.

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u/wholesale-chloride 14h ago

I thought this turned out not to be true?

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u/Tehwheelzzz 14h ago

Russia help him and trump in return they help Russia. I bet 

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u/GenericGravity 14h ago

Can we stop with the suggestive journalism?

"Eyebrows raise..."

No.... everyone already knew he was botting his engagement. So why tiptoe around it. We need journalists who will call this stuff out and not cowardly dance around their wording.

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u/SmallPenisOnlyFans 14h ago

No wonder why he restricted Starlink, Ukraine is killing all the Russian bots on X—Elon’s primary user base

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u/Eastern_Labrat 14h ago

The moral of the story Elon is to diversify your bot farm locations. Even the Reich’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels would know this. This is a rookie mistake and I’ll be gobsmacked if he lets this happen again. /s

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u/Dagger1901 13h ago

And then he turns off their satellite connection... cool world we live in

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u/pawpawpersimony 13h ago

Ah yes, the loser with no friends is confirmed to be a loser with no friends.

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u/Datsous014 14h ago

This is just another version of that guy who used Spotify to make money. Bots creating views which thus increases revenue. The blatant hypocrisy at this point is getting exhausting.