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'You're an amazing father, Elon': Musk accused of running burner on X again—and nuking account who outed him (www.dailydot.com)

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 66 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s pretty common for people to refer to these types of accounts as burners on Twitter. I recall the GM of the 76ers getting in trouble about 5-10 years ago for having sock puppet accounts on Twitter and all the reporting referred to them as burners.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Drug culture is more well known among normies than nerd culture, is what we're saying here.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 months ago

Yes. That’s exactly what’s happening here. Big shout out to drugs for winning the war…