On this week’s episode, we talk about the toxic hell-hole that is X, formerly known as Twitter, and why we left it. Or, more accurately, one of us left it.
In particular, we talk about how awful it’s gotten since Apartheid Baby took over, and how the site has virtually no meaningful content moderation. And it’s not because there are too many users or because X can’t effectively moderate the site for practical reasons. It’s because they don’t want to. They want the site to be as toxic as possible. And so it is.
We also talk about the recent spate of deadly hurricanes and the misinformation that followed. Nothing like politicizing tragedies when your party made them worse than they had to be.
Finally, we begin our discussion of the Netflix documentary, Will & Harper, which is great but challenging in some ways. More on that in our next episode, but you should definitely watch it and tune in for our conversation.
So, we hope you enjoy the show, please feel free to follow us on Instagram (@jenn_and_dave), and we’ll talk to you soon.
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Agree with everything you said re: X. Facebook has gotten ridiculous though because it’s so big they rely on AI, and scammers have learned how to get around it, e.g., creating a false duplicate account of a real person and adding a letter to the front of their name so AI thinks it’s different. Also, reporting true fraud gets nowhere, and I’ve been banned for quoting song lyrics; AI thinks it’s violence. I’ve had two friends who legit had their accounts stolen (clicked on slick links) and despite sending all kinds of proof, got nowhere for months. They finally got them back after creating second profiles. Just a mess.
It is such a mess! And you are so right about getting a slap on the hand for song lyrics, yet others say whatever they want and have no consequences. Thanks for listening! We really appreciate it!