Springtime for Hateler
Marianna Spring is the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent. Her role is to seek out problems on teh soshull meejah and whinge about them. This time, it's about hurt fee-fees on Twitter, particularly hers. First World problems, huh? (snowflake)
I wasn't paying attention at the time, but how much effort did Ms Spring put into investigating trolls, harassment, and disinformation under the previous regime? Trolls have always been a thing on Twitter, targeted and coordinated hate and harassment also, yet the company was selective
in how it dealt with them. So, does antisocial media only become worthy of a BBC Panorama investigation when it comes for her and her ilk?
As for disinformation busting, she could do worse than looking a little closer to home. But that wouldn't qualify for a junket to San Francisco, to interview terminated and otherwise disaffected Twitter employees, alongside other malcontents. Terminated only in terms of employment, I hasten to add; otherwise, she could've enrolled the services of a medium, and saved herself the trip stateside.
Her interviewees had their axes to grind against the new Twitter, but seemingly not the awareness to recognise that the previous version was itself deeply problematic. It was akin to a confirmation bias. I guess we're all prone to it to a greater or lesser extent. Most of us, however, aren't pretending to be an unbiased journalist reporting fairly, impartially and without fear or favour
for the world's most trusted international news broadcaster
™.
Despite a Twitter poll in which 89% of over 40,000 respondents voted for an interview between Spring and Elon Musk, the space cadet decided that the 11% were on the money. I don't know whether his reluctance to engage with her was due to him having no time, or no shits to give…or sensing a hack urinalist with a personal agenda. Although I have a suspicion he could've made the time if he'd wanted to. (wink)
All things considered, those lucky licence fee-payers are really getting their money's worth. (no)
It's possible that the BBC's ad revenue, and not the hard done by licence fee-payer, is covering Spring's travel expenses. Possible, but unlikely, given that this jaunt was made on behalf of Panorama. Still, it'll be interesting to see what, if any, effect cutting the cord
will have on the world's most trusted international news broadcaster
™'s reporting on [trivial self-interest] stories from around the world fairly, impartially and without fear or favour
.
Wahey! The inevitable stealth update! This little codicil wasn't present earlier.
Although Musk had no time to spare for Spring personally, and neither he nor Twitter have officially responded to BBC Panorama's investigation
, it didn't fly completely under the relevance radar. He tweeted in reply to @BBCWorld: Sorry for turning Twitter from nurturing paradise into place that has … trolls
.
Oh dear, Marianna, I think he's mocking you. (LMAO)
I know you're aware there've always been trolls on Twitter, Marianna; you've had your own, after all. It's simply that the company tolerated any who aligned with the Thinkpol's sociopolitical leanings, only dealing with those who were off-message
. Your butthurt detectors weren't so triggered at the time, because you were unaffected by those to whom Twitter turned a blind eye. Now I guess they're applying the same blind eye to your trolls, and you're all wah-wah-wah
, and Elon's drinking your salty tears.
Participation on Twitter is neither mandatory, nor a human right, Marianna. You don't have to stay if it displeases you. I understand that the delicate flapperati all decamped to Mastodon. You could try that. (LMAO) (LMAO) (LMAO)
Many of the flapperati who flap‑flap‑flapped off to Mastodon, flap‑flap‑flapped back when they realised that it was too difficult for them to set up, and even more difficult to create safe spaces. Bless.