Users on X believe that platform owner Elon Musk has been secretly operating a burner account in order to lavish praise on himself.
    • snownyte@kbin.social
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      5 months ago

      And all of the Reddit moderators looked in awe and decided to behave just like him.

      Only problem is that they aren’t getting the kind of money he does for it.

  • Chaosl3gion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    How exactly was it proven? Not defending Elon, I’m genuinely curious. The article mentions an audio recording sounding similar to Elon and some weird praises on Twitter. How does that connect the Dittmann account to Elon though?

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    A “burner” account? Never heard it called that before. “Sock puppet” or just “puppet” makes much more sense.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      It’s pretty common for people to refer to these types of accounts as burners on Twitter. I recall the GM of the 76ers getting in trouble about 5-10 years ago for having sock puppet accounts on Twitter and all the reporting referred to them as burners.

  • qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Other than the Delaware thing and saying shitty things on Twitter, has Musk actually done anything newsworthy since he purchased Twitter?

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Then I hop to another instance or create one of my own (running 19 or later so I can block his) and problem solved, lol.

        Federation means Musk can buy a single instance, or even a hundred instances, but cannot prevent anyone else from simply opening another somewhere else and making their own portal to the same content he wants to collect behind a paywall (if he even could).

  • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Adrian and Musk were on the same twitter space call once and even conversed a bit. Maybe that video was fake or just really well done by him with voice changers, but honestly I think it’s just a coincidence that these two idiots sound alike.

    Yes it would be really funny if musk did this but reddit also is going wild over this and I think in the end it will just for once turn out that musk Musk didn’t do something.