Friend of the show Jonathan Liew with some hard truths

[u/Kevsbo]

Link here; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/28/still-on-x-ask-yourself-why-platform-twitter-malign-actors-misinformation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I vote he chairs a live intervention a la Chrissy in the Sopranos in Liberty Hall

[u/Content-Weakness-550]

Branno: When I came in to open one morning there you were with your head in your phone. Your were reading fake Paolo Maldini quotes. Disgusting.

[u/Kevsbo → u/Content-Weakness-550]

Eoin: Look, it's not for anything but I can verify the quotes looked legit.. But still this thing with little Ted!

[u/ignatius109 → u/Content-Weakness-550]

Bemused English wedding guest: ‘you were non-stop talking for 20 minutes, nothing but gibberish’

[u/Kevsbo → u/ignatius109]

The Vasa, whatever happened there

[u/evin_cashman → u/Kevsbo]

WHATEVER HAPPENED THERE?

[u/Kevsbo → u/evin_cashman]

Alright then (stands up)

[u/r0cketman36 → u/Content-Weakness-550]

I told you I knew they were fake!
I've said my piece, Kenny.

[u/ffiishs]

You're weak. You're outta control. And you've become an embarrassment to yourself and everybody else.

[u/No-Dog-2280 → u/ffiishs]

Watch it Chrissy

[u/SketchyFeen → u/No-Dog-2280]

🤘

[u/Rambunctious_Rodent]

I did enjoy Ken’s analogy tbf. “I’m like a dodo. Surrounded by new predators”

[u/jackmccw]

I like some of the content on X. The boys like some of the content on X. It's full of protein.

[u/RedIrishDevil → u/jackmccw]

That’s the point of the piece though, ya make only like bits of it but ya shouldn’t be fooled into thinking that the bits you don’t like have no effect on you.

[u/Disaster-Plan → u/RedIrishDevil]

You can have one drink, no more, and then you're back to the hoooeeee-tel and you're off to bed.

[u/RedIrishDevil]

Great piece, agree with a lot of it. I now need to come to terms with having a completely different picture of Jonathan liew in my head than what he actually looks like.

[u/derekwart → u/RedIrishDevil]

I was convinced it had to be another journalist.

[u/Wolfbain164]

Twitter used to be the place that made you emotional by flooding your feed with ragebait engagement farming things. Now that is all media so Twitter has pivoted to making emotional people believe things that arent true.

[u/ShaneONeill88]

Musk actually performed a Nazi salute on a public stage. I don't know why anyone is still on Twitter (I refuse to call it X), especially our politicians and journalists.

[u/Meath77]

I deleted my account a week or 2 after musk bought it. He's literally promoting white supremacy conspiracy theories on it. Horrible platform.

[u/Terrible_Speaker264 → u/Meath77]

Can you name all the good social media platforms please

[u/Meath77 → u/Terrible_Speaker264]

Who said there were good ones?

[u/berball → u/Terrible_Speaker264]

if you're looking for a starting point, the ones not owned by Musk and outright promoting white supremacy.

[u/Terrible_Speaker264 → u/berball]

Fair, I'll sign up for the good guys at Meta

[u/berball → u/Terrible_Speaker264]

they promote white supremacy

[u/fedupofbrick]

Ken falling for a Keith Jones tweet sums him up

[u/Lower-Resident1164]

Why do sports journalists take themselves so seriously?

[u/imranhere2]

actual link

[u/Unfair_Sympathy9413]

"You are not special. You are not immune to fake news, delusion, anti-reality. You do not have a unique ability to maintain your critical faculties in an ecosystem where everyone else is losing theirs."

Oof, take that Kenny!

[u/Lynch8933]

Most normal people now know what it is, you get bombarded with MAGA and right wing posts but need to take it with a pinch of salt that it does not represent the outside world.

[u/Useful-Sand2913 → u/Lynch8933]

I'd argue that most normal people haven't a clue that this is the case.

[u/prinsippleskimster]

Mkhbh😍💪

[u/prinsippleskimster → u/prinsippleskimster]

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[u/pauli55555]

X is horrible. But then so is much of social media. Nothing ground breaking in that.

And I defo don’t need Jonathan Liew to tell me that. If I’m taking guidance from him then I know my life is in trouble. Terribly bland and uninteresting journalist.

He is everything wrong with the current version of The Guardian newspaper.

[u/No-Dog-2280 → u/pauli55555]

Bland? In this economy

[u/RedIrishDevil → u/pauli55555]

Pauli55555 has evolved to peak human and does not need to read any constructive or think pieces. Any presence of these pieces are a front to Pauli55555 and should be banned.

[u/ffiishs → u/pauli55555]

This is one of those rare posts where the argument, the insult, and the grammar are all in a three-way race to the bottom and nobody’s fucking winning