You wouldn’t pirate a medicine, would you?

  • ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc
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    3 months ago

    Hack? It’s not even that. Just musk in his infinite wisdom enabling pay-to-get-checkmark on Xitter so all the fake/satire accounts immediately jumped on the opportunity.

    • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Oh, was that it? I’d heard someone had hacked the EL Twitter account. That’s even dumber. Thanks for the correction and highlighting how much dumber the fallout was, luckily my misunderstanding didn’t take away from the main point.

      • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        HAHA no! Someone literally just changed their twitter handle, display name and avatar, then bought a blue check, and THAT’S IT.