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243 points Jimmc414 | 5 comments | 13 Nov 24 20:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.84s | source
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seydor ◴[13 Nov 24 21:53 UTC] No.42130473[source]▶
Yann Lecun is also telling everyone on Twitter very loudly that he won't be posting on Twitter.

The Guardian in another article explains that they are annoyed because Musk used twitter to promote his preferred candidate.

The Guardian itself used their own platform to publicly endorse Harris.

This deja-vu of childish antics is just comical in 2024

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1. tzs ◴[14 Nov 24 00:06 UTC] No.42131663[source]▶
Generally, when newspapers endorse a candidate that runs on the editorial page.

How did Musk use Twitter to promote his candidate? Was it on whatever the Twitter equivalent of editorial pages are? Was it promoting posts favorable to that candidate in people's feed and/or demoting posts favorable to other candidates?

Details matter in these things.

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2. netsharc ◴[14 Nov 24 01:37 UTC] No.42132251[source]▶
The discussion in here is infuriatingly childish. Saying a news site is just the same as a site that's ended up as Elon's (and numerous rightwing trolls') soapbox...
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3. wruza ◴[14 Nov 24 03:30 UTC] No.42132881[source]▶
As an external observer, it’s all sites working as -ist soapboxes to me. The fact that you call a politically superaffined site “a news site” alone, man. A news site doesn’t promote specific candidates by definition. Seems like some people forget what “news” means.

Saying a leftwing site is just the same as a site that's ended up as Elon's (and numerous rightwing users) soapbox...

Ftfy

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4. NewJazz ◴[14 Nov 24 05:33 UTC] No.42133399{3}[source]▶
Op eds have always been a component of news.
5. stvltvs ◴[14 Nov 24 09:31 UTC] No.42134477{3}[source]▶
It sounds like you're unfamiliar with the split between the news desk and the editorial desk, two separate functions in the same org. Last I checked the Fox News news desk was a pretty reliable source of info. All the editorial programming on the other hand, wackadoodle partisan hackery.