Notices by Mike Masnick (mmasnick@mastodon.social)

Latest podcast is with @alexwinter talking about his latest documentary "The YouTube Effect." A very fun discussion where I ask lots of questions about how people might misinterpret the documentary, because I'm always worried about moral panics driven by people misunderstanding things... https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/09/techdirt-podcast-episode-361-the-youtube-effect-with-alex-winter/

I guess it shouldn't surprise me that another of the "Twitter Files" authors is similarly clueless. Shellenberger highlights two stories that he claims are in conflict. They are not. The first one is about *government* censorship. The 2nd one highlights the use of bots creating calls for violence, and twitter's inability to respond.

I've boosted a few others pointing out this article, but I gotta say, I find it absolutely hilarious that Taibbi went from Musk bootlicker to effectively off the site and shadowbanned in 48 hours... especially since one of Taibbi's big (misleading and misunderstood) scoops was about Twitters visibility filtering... https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-matt-taibbi-leaves-twitter-elon-musk-shadow-bans-all-of-taibbis-tweets-including-the-twitter-files/

Reminder, on Mastodon, you can save notes on people you interact with... so the next time you interact with them you can be reminded of what you thought of them last time.

I see another influx to Mastodon in our future...

I never asked for notifications from Musk. But now all I get are notifications from Musk.

Alternate headline: Elon Musk admits he's set $24 billion on fire... so far.

I wrote about how some investigations by the January 6th committee effectively present the flip side of the Musk "Twitter Files" and actually show how Twitter effectively bent over backwards to give conservatives extra rights to violate the rules on the site. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/13/the-anti-twitter-files-january-6th-committee-report-shows-how-twitter-leaned-over-backwards-to-protect-trump-conservatives/

I wrote about how I cannot understand why anyone is interested in joining a new centralized social media platform when we now have a great opportunity to move to protocols instead of platforms. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/

On Twitter Spaces, Elon just said that no one's using Mastodon because "no one's listening."