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Twitter's new TikTok copycat is filled with animal cruelty videos. Elon calls content "Edgy"

www.nbcnews.com Twitter shows police brutality, anti-vaccine videos on TikTok copycat

Users said they saw violent content when they swiped up on videos after the feature was highlighted by Elon Musk on Sunday.

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Why is everything to do with this story completely unsurprising.
Musk is a proponent of near-absolute free speech

Anything goes, so long as it doesn't hurt his feelings personally
The best anyone can do right now is to migrate off of Twitter entirely. As long as Musk is in charge (or in charge through his puppet CEOs) the site will be a cesspool of toxicity and hate. I'm honestly not sure why reputable people are still using the site... guess the view and media exposure are better than doing the right thing and leaving?
"TikTok copycat"

You know, way way back in the pre-Elon days, they had another one. I think it was called Vine?
12ft link
The fediverse is looking like the objective best alternative, more so day by day.
All social media is filled with animal cruelty.
There's so many pictures and videos of cut up animal corpses with people going "yum" in the comments..
I don't use Tiktok but I gather that this is a big problem over there as well, so it sounds like Twitter is working just as well as the site it's riffing off.
What kinda goofy response was this from Musk? AYO!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1673116176757694465
are there videos of apes with nualink in their brains?
Many reported being alarmed by a stream of graphic videos they encountered while scrolling through the feed, including videos showing gun violence, police brutality, physical altercations and vaccine misinformation.

So it's working as intended?
Of course Elon would.
Steve “spez” Huffman calls the feature “visionary” and jokes that he wishes some protesting Reddit moderators be featured in the videos.
As for the free speech claims. I guess it's code for Elon doesn't want to pay people to moderate the content.
System is working as intended... I guess then huh Elon?
Only use it via browser and wasn't even aware of such feature nor do I care. These short videos are a rabbit hole I don't want to explore because there's no coming back
Sounds like tiktok

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