🧵1/ Musk is making Twitter much less transparent, much less accountable, & thus more vulnerable to manipulation. Many of the often poorly resourced activists & academics using the API to tackle foreign influence ops will no longer be able to. Governments should worry #TwitterAPI
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Marc Owen Jones 
@marcowenjones@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2Associate Prof @HBKU | Author: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East & Political Repression in Bahrain | NR Sen Fellow
Middle East Council of Global Affairs & DAWN
Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/marcowenjones
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This is why you can't trust AI. I asked it to draw Elon Musk being taken to hell by an army of cat ghosts but now he appears to have become their leader and god. #AI
It's about time I shared some cat content, just to test the waters. Here's Patches and a toy hippo using his fur as wilderness #catsofmastdn
I asked AI to draw images of Elon Musk being carried to hell by an army of cat ghosts. Now I want to turn them into t-shirts, or perhaps a nice quilt. #TwitterAPI #AI
The late 1990s, everyone was listening to the Offspring, Blink 182 and a smattering of Alanis. Oh yeah, and watching Friends - which explains why me and my best friend looked like Ross and Chandler. #ThrowBackThursday
Mastodon is basically people complaining about Twitter while Twitter is basically people talking about going over to Mastodon. Meta... #TwitterAPI
but then Agrawal sends Musk a text about his unhinged tweets. “You are free to tweet ‘is Twitter dying’ or anything else about Twitter - but it’s my responsibility to tell you that it’s not helping me make Twitter better in the current context,” he says to Musk. This small suggestion appears to enrage Musk... #TwitterMigration https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/elon-musk-texts-twitter-purchase-exhibit-h/672595/
I did an analysis of Tweets about the 15 minute city conspiracy. You can read it here https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1628105064890998785.html #15minutecities #15minutecity #disinformation
Prosper in peace. Try and do no harm. Do good when you can. Be compassionate. Seek truth. Tie your camel.
On Mastodon being Twitter verified is free. You can keep that $8 for donuts.
Watching a documentary about Putin and someone used the term "sociological service boss". Probably a dodgy translation but it's my new title #russia
Check out this episode of the IDS Between the Lines #podcast 🎙️ . Tony Roberts interviews
@marcowenjones@mstdn.social
, author of the book: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media.
Listen at: 📻 https://ids.ac.uk/events/podcast-s05-ep1-digital-authoritarianism-in-the-middle-east/
@boby_biq@toot.community That's good too
@boby_biq@toot.community Changed server but didn't realise it didn't include followings just followers
@theleavingyear@zirk.us swatted ?