[nomilk]

Can't help but notice arstechnica seems to have an anti-Elon agenda.

I recall them posting articles claiming Twitter's content was important for historical reasons (agree on that) and would disappear once Elon took over, which afaik, didn't happen.

[thatoneguy]

You forgot to add "yet" unless you can predict the future will 100% accuracy. Only once it's sold to someone else can you really say he didn't do it.

The data's longevity was probably helped by being a potent source of hate to power Musk's AI

[zzzeek]

so deeply controversial when a guy doing nazi salutes in front of crowds and illegally dismantling key pillars of US foreign policy finds himself unfavored by the media

[epistasis]

X hides discussions. If somebody sends you a link you can't see the discussion without an account and logging in and being extensively tracked.

Not sure what you mean about anti-Elon bias. This was straightforward reporting of the truth. If reality has an anti-Elon bias then perhaps it's not bias.

[conradfr]

Before the take over you couldn't see the linked tweet at all.

(it was not always this way though)

[epistasis]

I don't believe that's true, in that visibility only disappeared after Musk's takeover. It's hard to find old news with modern search engines, but here's one article from 2023, post-Elon, that matches my memory:

> If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet a Twitter window that asks you to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you from viewing tweets and user profiles or browsing through threads unless you’re a registered Twitter user.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-u...

It looks like it was pushed through by claiming the site was under attack, and then access was never restored. In any case, it was one of the things that pushed me off X.

[slipperydippery]

Before his take-over, like 50% of my attempts to load a linked tweet in a browser failed with an error, which would sometimes, but not always, be resolved with a few refreshes. If the tweet loaded, I couldn't see the discussion, to include follow-on tweets for "tweet threads", which meant it was often useless even if I did get it to load.

He fixed all that for, like... a month. Then went back to blocking lots of content without a login.

I haven't seen the errors since then, but it is back to not showing me the discussion.

[add-sub-mul-div]

"Bias" has come to mean "idea I don't agree with". Also see: "agenda".

[thatoneguy]

Reality has an anti-Elon bias

[mistercheph]

owned by conde nast its just normal MSM stuff

[nomilk]

Ah, yup. Didn't know this.

> Condé Nast media brands include Vogue, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveller, GQ, Glamour, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Pitchfork, Wired, Bon Appétit, and Ars Technica, among many others.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast

[justinhj]

Yeah just reading comments on Arstechnica articles like this one you can see the same baying mob they have on Bluesky. Elon bad. X nazi. Meanwhile I closed my Bluesky account because every other post is calling for violence against political opponents, gleeful over assassination and unrest and the recent beating of a doge employee.

[justinhj]

of course plenty of terminal left wing loonies on here too as observed by the irrational downvotes

[justinhj]

https://x.com/the_urb/status/1960885890957386080?s=46&t=Ba2d...