With lack of editing/quality control (an inherent problem in all social control media) Twitter is nowadays far too full of provocative fools -- as provocation is rewarded -- who doom the platform as a laughing stock or a 'nuthouse'



Summary: Twisting words, lying about the cited articles, declaring people dead (who are still alive!) are just some among the many reasons to quit Twitter and not bother with that noise machine (except maybe in a write-only fashion, copying from elsewhere and never receiving (mis)information from tweets)

THE recent 'googlebomb' that said Microsoft was "protecting Linux" or something to that effect (no, not the 2018 OIN spin but some newer Azure nonsense, basically promoting proprietary software that likely has NSA back doors) was a reminder of the media's corruption. It doesn't even attempt to get the story right. Some truly laughable headlines would have people believe that not only does Microsoft "love Linux" but also "owns it" and "protects" Linux.

But what's even worse than the media is social control media. Vastly worse.

"Welcome to social control media (sometimes capitalised here in Techrights) -- a place for people to take actual information, distort what it actually said or meant, then have a debate over a newly-manufactured lie or straw man."Over a month ago I 'quit' Twitter because it was far too full of lies and distortion. It had become a source of noise, not signal (or misinformation rather than reliable information). Days ago in Twitter someone twisted what I had actually said about IBM and Red Hat and then all the replies in Twitter also distorted what I had said (albeit somewhat differently). Welcome to social control media (sometimes capitalised here in Techrights) -- a place for people to take actual information, distort what it actually said or meant, then have a debate over a newly-manufactured lie or straw man. We get lots of that when people cite our Gates Foundation articles (seeing in them things we never said or even intended to say). Twitter may eventually become "Land of the Trump, home of QAnon..." (don't take this lightly; in many ways it's already happening)

I am so glad I left all this nonsense behind; I no longer even bother responding to any of these inaccuracies. It's almost always unproductive; it fosters the 'cancel culture' too... based on falsehoods or false allegations.

One noteworthy thing is, the Twitter account of the European Patent Office (EPO) no longer posts anything of significance. Almost everything is just derived from some template text with a bundle of stock photography and repeated dozens of times, over time.

In the past 2 days I received replies from the "5G causes coronavirus" crowd. Enough said. ⬆