Zhi ZhuDec 13, 2022

"Twitter on Monday night abruptly dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the latest sign that Elon Musk is unraveling years of work and institutions created to make the social network safer and more civil....

Dozens of civil rights leaders, academics and advocates from around the world had volunteered their time for years to help improve safety on the platform."
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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#TwitterSafety

Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, left his home after criticism from Musk unleashed a torrent of online harassment.

The Washington Post
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“Safety online can mean survival offline," the group’s president, Jodie Ginsburg, said in a statement. “Today’s decision to dissolve the Trust and Safety Council is cause for grave concern, particularly as it is coupled with increasingly hostile statements by Twitter owner Elon Musk about journalists and the media.”
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/

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Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, left his home after criticism from Musk unleashed a torrent of online harassment.

The Washington Post
Dec 13, 2022 at 12:48pmWeb
Show threadZhi ZhuDec 13, 2022

"Musk’s treatment of the board mirrored a wave of attacks that enveloped a former top executive at the company over the weekend.

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, and his family were forced from their home after Elon Musk’s tweets misrepresented Roth’s academic writing."
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/

#Twitter #ElonMusk

Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, left his home after criticism from Musk unleashed a torrent of online harassment.

The Washington Post
Show threadZhi ZhuDec 13, 2022

"Musk’s tweets to his tens of millions of followers have for years prompted his supporters to deluge the targets of his ire with online threats...

But now that Musk owns one of the most powerful social networks in the world and has gutted the company division that previously policed online harassment, the stakes are even higher."
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/

#Twitter #ElonMusk

Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, left his home after criticism from Musk unleashed a torrent of online harassment.

The Washington Post
Show threadZhi ZhuDec 13, 2022

"Twitter employees have long been wary of Musk’s ability to stoke online criticism.
...
Such harassment is part of a years-long pattern for Musk, with few legal consequences to date."
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/

#Twitter #ElonMusk

Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, left his home after criticism from Musk unleashed a torrent of online harassment.

The Washington Post
Show threadDemocracyMatters Dec 13, 2022
@ZhiZhu is it lack of ability, or lack of desire?
Show threadZhi ZhuDec 13, 2022

@DemocracyMatters

Are you referring to lack of legal consequences?

Probably a bit of both. The ideal that "No one is above the law" is nice in the abstract, but in reality, the rich are above the law. Sadly, the judicial system does NOT treat everyone equally.

This article from @ProPublica does a good job showing the #inequality in US legal system:
https://www.propublica.org/article/milwaukee-fire-brunner-belen-landlord-tenant

The Landlord, the Tenant and a House Fire in Milwaukee

A young mother rents a house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.”

ProPublica