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Understandable decision. Trolls essentially used their audience to gain visibility to their agendas, and Twitter didn't provide tool to prevent this.
People need to stop acting like their emotions and personal beliefs matter at all when it comes to science. Your feelings don't matter, your opinion don't matter, only thing that matters when it comes to science is scientific evidence. >

That's not the only problem.
The biggest issue is that it is very easy(well, relatively easy) to take a real study and then use out of context quotes, or re-tell the results in a misleading way, or just outright lie about what the study says to further your misinformation agenda.
The rebuttal to these can take hours of work to figure out depending on the specifics, and are way too labour intensive for the average person to even begin to do, and often require high level knowledge to even understand. It's an endless game of whack-a-mole, and has really exploded with the ever expanding echo chambers online. 
Social media has really removed most kinds of nuance in favor of ingroup buzzwords and catchy or emotion inducing titles. >

It's also very easy/cheap to have someone write some bogus 'sienctific' study that says what you want to hear. >


to have someone

You don't even need the "someone" anymore. Hand the assignment to GPT-3 and be done with it. >

Everyone should leave twitter. >

I second that >


The rampant spread of conspiracy theories on Twitter has pushed Finland’s top health authority to stop using the platform to disseminate its public-health messages.
A lack of proper tools on the social media site means the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare is unable to effectively weed out false and deliberately misleading information, as well as inappropriate comments, from replies to its posts, according to spokeswoman Marjo Loisa. It’s taken the decision to stop sharing to its almost 100,000 followers, freeing up resources from content moderation.
“Our tweets and their comments are used as a platform for spreading disinformation and Twitter doesn’t provide proper tools to block this,” Loisa said in an emailed response to questions. “This has grown to be a major problem during the pandemic.” >

This particular Finnish authority has not been following EU or WHO recommendations during the pandemic at all. A lot of Finns have been questioning why they ignore what everyone else in Europe is doing, while Finland is doing terribly with the pandemic. No masks, no boosters.
This was their response, big surprise >

This past weekend I went back to take a look at my old twitter account. I follow the editor of Scientific American, and scrolled through her feed. The posts are still interesting and have good content. The replies under each post were consistently dumpster fires with derails, denials, and straight up hate. It used to be fun to be able to interact with people doing interesting things, but looking at the "discussions" now just kills any desire to wade into that kind of ugliness. Something pretty remarkable has been lost. >

It has been like this for a very long time. Replies are often complete bullshit. There is no proper conversation at all, i don't know why businesses and government still use this shit platform. >

How can there be good discussions when there is a character limit of 280. Anyone that has anything worth saying that carries deeper insight is blocked out, then all you're left with is snappy retorts, and eventually the masses find out that snappy retorts can be drowned by shitty retorts. >

I've never liked Twitter. Never used it and disliked its effect on general culture.
Therefore I was happy when Elon bought it, because I knew the Twitter die-hards would hate it.
It's not like he's made it worse, it just was always bad.
Maybe he should buy TikTok as well. >

Heh.
My theory is that Elon Musk was so pissed at being banned after he accused some random troll of being a paedophile, that he is getting his revenge by firing everyone.
He self reportedly started space X to piss on Russian space program because a Russian engineer spat on his  shoes decades ago. The man is driven by vengeance alone. >

I left twitter this weekend as well. They took the mobile ability away to sort tweets by time, thus not allowing people to scroll during sports. I was like f it i was already thinking of leaving, this is just the straw. >

Exacerbated by the head of Twitter being a conspiracy theorist. >

Everyone should quit Twitter. It’s run by a fascist propagandist. >

The thing is: as the fringe groups take over the site, this kind of exodus will snowball.  We won't hear about most of this exodus.  Qualified authorities in various areas will just gradually cut back use or stop their public outreach.
I'm pretty sure this is very deliberate.  Drive all the legitimate news gathering sources and experts off Twitter.  Now what do you have left?  The garbage mass media, which barely does any reporting anymore.  Guess who benefits from this state of things. >

Twitter got AIDS anyways. Just a matter of time untiil it is only populated by bots >

I’m surprised Twitter is still running at all tbh. Everyone I know/follow moved to mastodon already. >

I just took a look at Mastodon and in the first 30 seconds of looking around it looks like a left wing activism social media site.  Which is fine as a progressive myself, but a site like that is not going to gain traction.  The front page really needs to have people going about their day and doing normal interesting stuff, like surfing, fixing a cell phone tower, reposting something funny they saw on Tiktok, or whatever.  My identity is not politics and after looking around I don't feel especially compelled to create an account there.