you post shit from The Free Press, man

11/21/2025 1:19:27 PM

at this point it seems elon is trolling and in on the joke?

11/21/2025 1:24:41 PM

whenever [insert users to whom this applies] posts shit from The Free Press, this is how i imagine [insert users to whom this applies] enjoying it



[Edited on November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM. Reason : 🏰 your r*tarded defector.com articles, my intellectual youtube videos 🏰]

11/21/2025 1:26:13 PM

This sounds like me and my neighbor phill. He'll criticize the news/media I consume, I'll criticize his consumption of podcasts, disregard for newspapers

11/21/2025 1:41:59 PM

but at the end of the day still the best of frens amirite

11/21/2025 1:46:13 PM

Phill is my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner

11/21/2025 1:49:59 PM

https://www.freepressjournal.in/tech/a-lot-of-accounts-are-going-to-be-exposed-netizens-react-after-x-starts-showing-user-country-origin-on-profiles

Quote :

"Social media platform X has started to roll out 'country labels' for all user accounts across the globe. This means, that once the rollout is finished, users will now be able to see where the person they are interacting with, are from. This feature has been lauded by supporters who feel that it will enable them to uncover accounts used to spread propoganda."

+1

[Edited on November 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM. Reason : I am enjoying it]

11/23/2025 10:52:49 AM

Seems like a good idea.

I am coming from the USA, BTW!

11/23/2025 11:19:14 AM

yeah but what state are you posting from. this is a North Carolina based social media platform

11/23/2025 11:28:21 AM

At the moment, I am in fact in North Carolina.

11/23/2025 11:29:32 AM

Kind of surprised Elon went along with this. Wonder if they'll start intentionally mislabeling left leaning accounts as being in Russia or China.

11/23/2025 3:18:08 PM

yeah I honestly don't full trust the system and will probably successfully get gamed by bad actors (perhaps even including Elon)

I'm just glad it's highlighting the fact that a lot of the conflict we see on social (and traditional/legacy/alt/new/etc) media are in the end manufactured disinformation/psyops efforts, whether foreign in origin or domestic. Cambridge Analytica wasn't that long ago and most people go around acting like that kind of stuff hasn't just gotten so much more sophisticated and that more countries and organizations aren't getting in on the action.

[Edited on November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM. Reason : 2050]

11/23/2025 3:53:54 PM

From a technical standpoint, how easy is it for them to code it so someone couldn't fool it with a VPN?

11/23/2025 4:01:34 PM

they show a little information emoji disclaimer if they think you're using VPN (but it's not super visible or clear imo). for low sophistication efforts to use VPN it'll likely be detectable with like maybe 80-90% accuracy I'd guess, but any groups with high sophistication will probably be able to evade it if they set up their own infrastructure

[Edited on November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM. Reason : unless/until they get exposed IRA style]

11/23/2025 4:06:38 PM

Quote :

"I'm just glad it's highlighting the fact that a lot of the conflict we see on social (and traditional/legacy/alt/new/etc) media are in the end manufactured disinformation/psyops efforts"

I, caelncsurwoody, agree with all that


[Edited on November 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM. Reason : Oops]

11/23/2025 7:53:03 PM

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAcCrBXkH5imrvoYRXquoAEY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Quote :

" Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature"

[Edited on November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM. Reason : .]

11/24/2025 1:18:02 PM

LOL!

You hate to see it. . .

Quote :

"a Russian nesting doll of bullshit"

11/24/2025 1:38:55 PM

Quote :

"Although this crisis centers on X, most major social-media networks have fallen victim to variants of this problem. Fakery and manipulation are inevitable for platforms at this scale"

this problem will be solved in our lifetimes

[Edited on November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM. Reason : just somebody give me 42 billion dollars and i'll fix it]

11/24/2025 1:48:41 PM

Wait so now people know I'm not a Nigerian prince??

[Edited on November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM. Reason : FUCK!]

11/24/2025 1:52:48 PM

Hey, StTexan, lemme hold a dolla! . . .

11/24/2025 2:31:42 PM