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Musk makes it hard to follow Kamala Harris on X, while donating 45Million per month to Trump (newrepublic.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I’ve seen this claim in two news stories with no evidence. I just followed her effortlessly using these steps:

Tap search button in bottom menu
Type “Kamala Harris” and hit submit
Tap first search result
Tap follow button in upper right

It worked without a problem

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean, the story linked above includes a screenshot showing the rate-limiting error message. I assume it's been fixed, but no reason to think the rate limit error didn't actually happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was a rate limit for someone following too many people. Anyone can go follow her no problem. The person writing this article know there are morons out there that will eat up and share anything vaguely anti-musk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Right we don't need to see any more anti-musk shit because we already know he is bankrolling a traitor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

no reason to think the rate limit error didn't actually happen

I didn’t say that it didn’t happen
I reported my experience
I can think of at least two reasons to fake this story: (1) Harris gained a follower when I performed my test, same as the millions of others seeing this story, (2) bad story about Musk for the Musk haters

So maybe it’s true, maybe it isn’t. I haven’t seen evidence other than the claim of someone who supposedly follows thousands of people but hadn’t yet followed the vice president.

Not saying it is true, not saying it isn’t. Saying it might not be, and my own observation doesn’t replicate the claim.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It is ridiculous that we have gotten to the point that completely clearly pointing out that an article is BS gets downvoted. Do better lemmyites.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Just because it's working fine for you now doesn't mean the article is false. Your anecdotal experience does not retroactively change the past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

And a single person who writes what they know you want to hear is absolute proof. We know how you think.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The plural of anecdotal is not data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

But a single article that confirms your bias is. Fascinating how that works.