Notices by Matt Binder (mattbinder@mastodon.social)

Elon Musk’s X goes full pro-Trump with custom hashtag emoji icons

#MAGA now appears with a pic of Trump with his fist in the air

#Trump2024 appears with an American flag

if you click on the last hashtag, American flags rain down on the search page

read: https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-pro-trump-custom-hashtag-icon

Apple is announcing its AI product “Apple Intelligence” and gave an example of how you can wish you friend Happy Birthday with an AI generated image of them

then they threw this up on the screen

why would i do my friend dirty like this on her birthday

just two weeks ago Elon Musk told users to post their family photos on X instead of on Instagram, which he compared to a strip club

now:

under Elon Musk’s own redefined “doxxing” policy, identifying these individuals would get you suspended on his platform

fake solar eclipse streams from fake SpaceX channels featuring a fake AI-generated Elon Musk speech filled YouTube today

why? to dupe the hundreds of thousands of viewers into falling for a crypto scam of course
https://mashable.com/article/fake-spacex-elon-musk-solar-eclipse-youtube-livestreams-crypto-scam

X / Twitter is backing off its new anti-trans harassment policy

the initial policy said it would demote posts that misgender users

X quietly updated it, saying it only applies "where required by local laws" after right wing users complained to Elon Musk https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-changes-anti-trans-harassment-policy

Twitter / X is serving users with a new ad format that can't be blocked or reported

the ads aren't even actual X posts & aren't connected to any X accounts. they do not disclose that they are ads

it appears the ads are connected to clickbait ad networks

read more: https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-new-clickbait-ad-format

an incredible tweet from Musk

the funeral assistance that AOC is referencing here is re: COVID-19 deaths

…something that Elon Musk himself consistently spreads massive disinformation & anti-vaccine sentiment about

contributing to the very deaths he’s telling her to prevent

read more about how the #BanTheADL hashtag began to trend and the X-approved white supremacist ad running across the platform here: https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-white-supremacist-ad-ban-adl-hashtag

over the past day on X / Twitter:
➡️ ADL director says he had a meeting w/ X CEO
➡️ far right users attack w/ anti-semitic posts
➡️ Nick Fuentes helps trend #BanTheADL
➡️ Elon Musk signals support, liking posts from white nationalist
➡️ users start seeing this white supremacist ad on X:

Elon Musk just confirmed that a prominent right wing influencer on the platform was suspended for posting "child exploitation pictures"

also Musk confirmed that they just reinstated his account

seems like things are going good over at Reddit where the company (led by its CEO “spez”) just launched its open pixel art canvas known as r/Place while users protest against recent Twitter-like API changes that killed third-party apps

when Threads launched, a number of right wing accounts with a history of posting misinformation on other platforms were flagged with a warning label informing users that they “repeatedly posted false information”

however, it appears Threads has now removed these labels

a Meta spokesperson told Donald Trump Jr. that his account was flagged in “error” and that it’s since “been fixed”

https://mashable.com/article/threads-false-information-label-donald-trump-jr-error

i hope my date doesn't think i'm weird

this monocle should do the trick

WordPress becomes the latest platform to remove Twitter due to the new high-priced API plans

millions of WordPress-powered websites can no longer share to Twitter via its popular JetPack plugin https://mashable.com/article/wordpress-drops-twitter-jetpack-social-sharing

I am once again locked out of Twitter.

Twitter just locked my account after I asked Twitter's head of Trust & Safety Ella Irwin why I haven't been informed of what tweet broke Twitter's policies

Seems they forgot to force me to delete the tweet the first time, like they did the other suspended journalists.

This is the tweet they want me to delete to get back into my account:

Hello. Is this thing on?