More Lies Than Truth Social

I mean that’s gotta be a given since they probably have 1000x more users right?

Not measuring per capita (estimated by daily active users or whatever) seems intentionally misleading. Ironic on a post about misinformation.
- I feel like per post would be a pretty intuitive metric here too
The network effect is one hell of a drug.
- I learned something thank you
Yeah. Somehow. Still.
BBC News officially posts more fake news than my personal blog

Even worse is that Twitter/X still has an air of mainstream legitimacy since others built it into a household name before musk decided to vaporize billions of dollars to be able to enshittify it.

It was never a good platform. Mainstream media just liked it because they could rationalize any shit take they wanted to push by saying "thousands of people on twitter are concerned about X problem". Their audience didn't realize that those thousands is the same as one belligerent drunk at a bar who won't shut up.
- they could rationalize any shit take they wanted to push by saying “thousands of people on twitter are concerned about X problem”
  
  A lot of the time they don't put any number on the people, and then it turns out they wrote a whole-ass article on what dozens of people on twitter are saying.
- Yeah I was never really a user, or considered it particularly good. But I think the mainstream legitimacy was definitely there. Any company, media personality, celebrity, brand, etc was pretty much expected to have a presence there, and you’d see their @usernames displayed prominently even outside Twitter. Or even just the little bird icon so you knew to look for them there.
- But we're there any better platforms that people were using? The problem was that all the alternatives were doing next tot nothing for countering disinformation. Twitter was the best of a bad situation.
- A lot of creators are still there, and outright dismissed even alternatives like bluesky, let alone Mastodon, which many of them call a "tech-bro infested hellscape" (most of the techbros moved back to Xitter the moment thez were allowed to say the N-word).

I won’t even click links there anymore. No traffic if I can help it.

I used to click breaking news to see what others were saying, then they did the "you have to create an account to see this" and all the sudden, I didn't care anymore.
There's a bot that just reposts X posts to Lemmy; so much, it is essentially just spam.

Thank god for the ability to block accounts and communities.

As much as I hate reddit users, x users are by far worse. Judgement passed.

The really stupid thing is that even though I ditched Twitter long before Elon bought it and started turning it into a dumpster fire it still gets shoved in my face constantly because shitty "journalists" continually link and quote some dumb random on there and spin whatever their dumb ass says into "people are saying/doing/boycotting/protesting/etc etc etc ad nauseum..."

I'm really sick of it.

But how do we know this statistic is not fake news too?

X probably has far more traffic. I don't find it particularly hard to believe that there is a higher quantity of misinformation there. Maybe not a higher concentration though.

I had a 2fa on shitter and then I factory reset my phone and the 2fa app stored shit locally, so all of my 2fas were gone. One of them was shitter. Tried to log in, but they wanted me to call them and go through hoops and loops to retrieve my account. It was for the better. I let it go for good. It has absolutely nothing anyway, I was just a lurker. Fuck Elon.