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Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X::Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, warns Elon Musk about disinformation on X related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 161 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am so sick of seeing his face everywhere. I’m blocking everyone.

[–] MrFlamey@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

He's basically the new Trump, in that for five years you could not escape Trump's fucking face on every website you visited. Perhaps Musk isn't quite that level, but he's not far off. He's in the news an insane amount, and it's basically as annoying as Trump, only he's not as ugly or stupid.

[–] tastysnacks@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago

Elon is Desantis. Like him or not, Trump makes great TV. Its like the best thriller ever created. Elon is fine when other people talk about him. But when he's on TV, he's boring just like Ron. He's got no personality.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

These people gotta worship someone because they lack any sort of self identity of their own and critical thinking skills.

They need a leader to tell them what to do.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Are you assuming there's so much bad coverage of Musk because people worship him? It's almost always dunking on how much of an idiot he is and hoping he loses lots of money.

I understand it can be legitimately annoying to hear about some people repeatedly, but when the discourse is about how awful those people are, you're better off just not clicking the link. Let people who want to eat popcorn at the circus do so and leave the circus.

[–] Chr0nos1@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I still see Trumps face everywhere, though primarily on left wing media. Oddly enough, I see it there more than I do on right wing media. (Gotta see what both sides are saying, the truth is in the middle somewhere)

[–] ViewSonik@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I miss Apollo where yoy could block any keyword which prevented me from seeing commwnts or posts that contained specific text…

Edit: someone below pointed out Voyager can do this in theur web app! Thanks again dude!

[–] ninekeysdown@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Voyager allows you to do that and since it a PWA you can use it and/or install it on any platform. https://vger.app

[–] ViewSonik@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MAN YOU ROCK!! Thanks! Now I can block “elon” and “trump” lmao

[–] Sivalente@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boost does that. You can filter out a whole instance if you want.

[–] eoddc5@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ok but how do you filter away “elon musk”

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What app or webui are you using? Most of them have keyword filters now.

[–] ViewSonik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voyager, what do you recommend for iphone?

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I primarily use Thunder, but Mlem, Memmy, and Arctic have filters afaik. Avelon has filters but you need to pay for it. That’s what I’ve seen with what I’ve tested. Liftoff only has blocking of users/communities.

Mlem allows for filters

[–] fry@fry.gs 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arctic has separate filters for the post body and post title, which is really nice.

Avelon has keyword filtering and also supports instance blocking.

Both have been great!

[–] ViewSonik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voyager has it on their web app, I need to update my post. I checked out Avelon and it looms you you must pay for upgraded app to filter. No thanks.

[–] fry@fry.gs 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, didn’t realize that was a paid feature (already paid so I can’t see what is or isn’t paid).

I’m not a fan of web apps, they’re much slower than native. Arctic is completely free for all features, so that could be a better choice for someone wanting filters and a native experience. It’s still in TestFlight at the moment, link in sidebar for its community.

[–] ViewSonik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome, thanks for sharing. Ill check out Arctic too then

[–] fry@fry.gs 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No problem! There’s lots of great apps out there right now, really happy to see such an active community of developers!

[–] ViewSonik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lol, I had to share this due to the timing of my comment…

Turns out there was a new voyage release TODAY that allows filtering keywords in the phone app version. Lmao whoops!

https://lemmy.world/post/6579873

[–] ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

i believe the is a chrome/firefox extension where you can block news about certain people. I dont remember how it's called.