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Warpy

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1. Years ago, when I bothered with it, I always called Twitter the rumor mill

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Oct 11, 2023, 01:24 PM

Oct 2023

I found it useful for following breaking news like the earthquake in Haiti, but absolutely useless as a source to cite.

I've found a lot of breaking news on dodgy sites elsewhere since then, and waiting hours for confirmation on a real site is really annoying, but I don't have a staff of fact checkers with enough contacts to vet a story, so I wait until a real site posts it.

I'm not surprised that Xitter has turned into a GRU disinformation playhouse. Musk has turned a bad site into a sewer.

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Beau of the Fifth Column: Let's talk about the BBC report and Ukraine.... [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2023 OP

Years ago, when I bothered with it, I always called Twitter the rumor mill Warpy Oct 2023 #1

K&R for visibility. crickets Oct 2023 #2