NBC's Ben Collins keeps finding videos of cats in blenders on Twitter and it's all Elon Musk's fault

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

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

From Collins’ May 12 article:

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.

OK, so two things: (1) As of last night when Collins was on Hayes’ show, the “cat in a blender” autocomplete had been disabled, and (2) what Collins said is happening is, in fact, not happening.

So "misinformation reporter" @oneunderscore__ completely botched describing what happens when you search "cat" on Twitter as you just showed.

Thanks for proving my point. https://t.co/cBrSsQ2UzX

— RBe (@RBPundit) May 17, 2023

I think you're too dense to understand. Good luck.

— Or3l (@Or3l8) May 17, 2023

No, I understand perfectly.

What he described is not what you linked.

He's the one that's supposed to report ON misinformation, not spread it himself.

But you keep simping! I'm sure he'll see it! https://t.co/7AkQNUMxRY

— RBe (@RBPundit) May 17, 2023

Maybe going forward, just to save himself from future embarrassment, Ben should just stick to reporting on what he finds on 4chan. He apparently has to spend quite a bit of time on there “for his job” and there should be plenty of content there to keep him busy.

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