It's hardly the most important thing here, but the disaster in Ishikawa is a tangible reason why Elon's management of Twitter is such a problem...in Japan especially, Twitter has been a source of real-time news, esp in situations like this, and now it's a vanity project for a white supremacist

Nationalize it, let the Post Office run it, and give all their workers get a nice Post Office retirement for dealing with his nonsense.

but it is a Real Thing.

Friendly amendment: Elon's deliberate mismanagement of Twitter to create chaos.

He has created Xitter in his own image. That's why it is a pile of crap.

Twitter was a vital public good for constituent communication that should have been nationalized and not exploited by a fascist for manipulation with misinformation. bsky.app/profile/paul...

Brutal, but fair.

No, it has always been part of the information war, which is why it was purchased and changed by UAE/Qatar.

NERV (a major earthquake reporting site in English and Japanese) has been rate-limited on twitter for posting updates on the quake. Truly dangerous.

Not only that. Twitter in Japan is a mess right now.Spam(That's called impression zombies in Japan.) bots are copying/pasting all kinds of information about the disaster. False information are Repost quickly, making it harder than ever to get reliable information.

I didn’t even bother looking but NHK isn’t a replacement