Is there a more insufferably self-righteous and delusional journalist out there right now than NBC News’ “dystopia beat” senior reporter Ben Collins? If there is, we’d like to meet them and congratulate them for pulling off such an impressive feat. It’s possible, of course, that insanely stiff competition prevents Collins from rising to the top of the trash heap, but at the very least, he’s gotta be tied with someone in the top three or something.
Anyway, to say the very least, he’s self-righteous and delusional, not to mention obnoxious and annoying and all-around full of it. He demonstrated that once again on Chris Hayes’ MSNBC show last night, when he complained about how Twitter under Elon Musk is basically a free speech free-for-all where snuff films lurk around every corner. We’re talking videos of cats being blended to death, people:
NBC's @oneunderscore__: When "you are searching for the word 'cat' [no Twitter] and you get a cat in a blender, literally being blended to death," that's because of @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/ejjlzYwE2U
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 17, 2023
Are we sure it’s not Ben who’s lost it? Or that he never actually had it to begin with?
Ben Collins: "Over the last few years I’ve had to go to the worst websites in the world every day. Like 8 chan … 4chan, I don’t think I dread going to a site more than I dread going to Twitter every day, because you see that the dumbest stuff is underneath smart people, right?” pic.twitter.com/1Kio6b0BE3
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 17, 2023
Why … why is Ben on 4chan and 8chan every day? Does anyone else think that’s kinda weird?
LMAO https://t.co/Q6V8OaOu2v pic.twitter.com/fctnBiL67q
— Noam Blum 🚡 (@neontaster) May 17, 2023
Can Ben decide whether he's on 4chan every day or not? pic.twitter.com/AmlhkKzJdw
— Noam Blum 🚡 (@neontaster) May 17, 2023
Can Ben explain why he is apparently more likely than most people on Twitter to come across videos of cats being ground up in blenders?
Why is he searching cat in a blender? https://t.co/zCa0zXW02D
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 17, 2023
In the interest of science, we attempted to replicate Ben’s experience, and we were unable to do so. Sounds like that was the case for others who tried to understand what the hell Ben was on about:
This is a very weird thing for "misinformation reporter" @oneunderscore__ to say.
I just did a search on Twitter for "cat" and didn't get any cat in a blender videos.
What's he talking about? https://t.co/Yvy9jOtRwG
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 17, 2023
You can try this experiment at home, kids. Right now search twitter for the word “cat” and see if you can find what @oneunderscore__ is talking about.
No luck? Try searching for “cat in a blender”.
No luck again?
That’s because he lies. https://t.co/5H89pwo1iO
— jason anderson (@PennsyltuckyJCA) May 17, 2023
But Ben says he’s not lying. How do we explain what’s happening, then?
Thanks for highlighting this, Tom!
Our reporting forced Twitter to turn off autocomplete, or "typeahead search" in internal Twitter verbiage, across the whole site. They couldn't fix it otherwise.
Searching for cats on Twitter was a playground dare.https://t.co/zwPuwZF0Vd
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 17, 2023
Autocomplete suggestions in search bars are a common feature on many social media platforms, and they can often surface disturbing content. The terms for “dog” and “cat” autocompleted viral animal cruelty videos in Twitter’s search box Thursday, when NBC News contacted the company for comment. Twitter’s press account automatically responded with a poop emoji, the company’s standard response for the last month.
As of Friday afternoon, Twitter appeared to have turned off its autocomplete suggestions in its search bar.
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