TyrannocasterDec 23, 2022
Eirliani A Rahman

#Musk removed the #ThereIsHelp prompt on #Twitter this week. This prompt helped users get support on issues like #suicideprevention and #mentalhealth, #HIV, #vaccines, child sexual exploitation, #COVID-19, gender-based violence. My interview just out in #Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-orders-removal-twitter-suicide-prevention-feature-sources-say-2022-12-23/

The pressure worked, folks! Update: #ThereIsHelp has been reinstated.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-restores-suicide-prevention-feature-after-reuters-report-2022-12-24/

Exclusive: Twitter removes suicide prevention feature, says it's under revamp

Twitter Inc removed a feature in the past few days that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, according to two people familiar with the matter who said it was ordered by new owner Elon Musk.

Reuters
Dec 23, 2022 at 10:17pmWeb
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@atomicpoet @ahreaume @nattiegoogie Please help boost.🙏 The public outcry worked. #twitter
Show threadComfortably NumbDec 23, 2022

@eirliani everybody: that Musk dude cannot get any shittier.

Musk: hold my Diet Coke

Show threadGinaDec 23, 2022
@ygalanter @eirliani caffeine free Diet Coke too
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 23, 2022
@ygalanter Uff.
Show threadFrancoCarusoDec 23, 2022
@ygalanter @eirliani
What a piece of shit of a human being! #fuckelonmusk
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@francocaruso @ygalanter It is just horrid. Beyond words.
Show threadNoodlesDec 23, 2022
@eirliani
That’s not a kind thing for the bird to do. I’m glad you are pointing it out
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 23, 2022
@Slice_of_Pie Thank you. Had to be done. #Twitter
Show threadKim ScheinbergDec 23, 2022
@eirliani
That motherfucker (excuse my french). And he did it at the time of year when people are at their most vulnerable. I'm so sorry he's dismantling everything you helped build. 💔
I'm going to go sit in my car and scream for a few minutes now.
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 23, 2022
@kims Kim, it's horrifying. I was livid when i found out. AND he fired half of the remaining Public Policy team yesterday too. #Twitter
Show threadLe ChevalierDec 23, 2022
@eirliani yikes! I’m glad he’s not designing self-driving cars—or they’d be running around, running over people.
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 23, 2022
@LeChevalier Uff.😑
Show threadBJC860Dec 23, 2022
@eirliani Just awful.
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 23, 2022
@BJC860 The worst.
Show threadNYSMASTODec 23, 2022
@eirliani I still think he wants to shut down the whole thing
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 23, 2022
@NYSMASTO The man is mercurial, to say the least.
Show threadClive WeeksDec 24, 2022
@NYSMASTO @eirliani
You can’t help but wonder if that’s his end game… 🙄
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@cliveweeks @NYSMASTO Uff.
Show threadTammy GentzelDec 23, 2022
@eirliani Further confirmation he does not understand the depth of the value of the platform but instead sees it as a good old boy locker room.
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@TammyGentzel It's horrid, Tammy, just horrid. #twittermigration
Show threadTammy GentzelDec 24, 2022
@eirliani Agreed.
Show threadEschatonMidWestDec 23, 2022
@eirliani It seems so punitive and senseless.
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@Eschaton1951 Senseless is it, exactly. And the lives that would be impacted.
Show threadSocialistStanDec 23, 2022
@eirliani Fascists hate mutual aid.
Show threadHeather Luna (she/her) 🌱Dec 23, 2022
@SocialistStan @eirliani Well, not to be that person who comes in with "but"... But in the UK at least, the far right is getting quite good at going into communities and setting up mutual aid-like projects as part of their recruitment. 😭
Show threadSocialistStanDec 23, 2022
@Keduzi @eirliani That would be completely unheard of in the US, here the only way they interface with the community is though occasional "patrols" that go out and harass people. How is the left in the UK dealing with it?
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@Keduzi @SocialistStan Ugh. Thanks for letting us know, Heather.
Show threadHeather Luna (she/her) 🌱Dec 24, 2022
@eirliani @SocialistStan Not sure what they are doing, tbh.The other thing is that the right in the US does have quite a strong community network: summer camps, helping folks who need meals after getting out of the hospital etc. Through churches. So maybe we would define mutual aid as centring people marginalised by society? Targeted by society for destruction? Something like that??
Show threadAZ GirlDec 23, 2022
@eirliani I just joined Mastadon today because of this!
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@AZGirl Welcome to the much better #fediverse!
Show threadVelvetAlexDec 24, 2022
@eirliani Elon Musk is a sociopath and a pathological liar. When I found out he lied about holding his dying infant son in his arms, I knew nothing meant anything to him. #guillotine
Show threadRichard GrantDec 24, 2022
@eirliani Just in time for the holidays. What a guy
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@richardgrant Richard, exactly.
Show threadDwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦Dec 24, 2022
@eirliani As with many others, there is no bottom to reach for the apartheid nostalgist.
Show threadConcerned CanuckDec 24, 2022

Eirlani, whenever any of these billionaire overlords does something like this, regardless of how bizarre, I always ask, "what are they going to get out of this and why are they doing it?" Usually the answer is either more power, or more money, but in this case it just seems to be for pure spite. Do you have any idea why he would do this?

@eirliani

Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@ryanfen Ryan, I frankly do not know. Perhaps if we raise enough of a ruckus, they might bring it back. Who knows.
Show threadVicky AustinDec 24, 2022
@eirliani every time you think he's hit the bottom, he finds a new way to go lower. What an appalling decision.
Show threadSueDDec 24, 2022
@eirliani I honestly don’t know why anyone is surprised 🤷🏻‍♀️. #ElonMusk gives zero fucks about literally anyone else other than himself
Show threadDarren du NordDec 24, 2022
@SueD @eirliani
Getting rid of suicide prevention resources is just another cruel part of #ElonMusk's plan to reduce #Twitter's workforce. He doesn't care about people, only results.
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@darren @SueD Darren, just horrid.
Show threadKris SamselDec 24, 2022
@eirliani profoundly disturbing?
United States congressional members that are still on Twitter!
Oligarchies do not put those clowns into OFFICE.
#Congress @Congress
Show threadThomas Edwin ☑️Dec 24, 2022
@eirliani seperti ini apakah ada di mastodon?
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@thomaskatalis Thomas, saya masih belum pasti lagi. Sebab saya masih baru di #Mastodon. Kalau ada pun, sebab sistem ini decentralized, tidak mungkin ia ini ada throughout the #fediverse.
Show threadMaeveSterling 🇮🇩 🇺🇦Dec 24, 2022
@eirliani
jesus christ,twitter is totally violet now....
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@MaeveSterling Maeve, #Twitter just did an about turn. See my updated post.
Show threadCasual ObserverDec 24, 2022

@eirliani I’m glad the #ThereIsHelp functionality is back at #twitter. But ffs, every shit-tier tinker made by #elonmusk reminds me of a brand new #vbulletin forum admin selecting then de-selecting all the options in the admin panel to see what they do.

It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.

Show threadKLBDec 24, 2022
@eirliani but … why would anyone do that? Did he give a reason?
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 24, 2022
@KLB None. Your guess is as good as mine.
Show threadValerie CurtisDec 25, 2022
@eirliani Horrible, unless he’s going to replace it with something else similar.
Show threadEirliani A RahmanDec 25, 2022
@VLCMDRichie Valerie, it's been reinstated. See my update in the same post.
Show threadValerie CurtisDec 25, 2022
@eirliani ok; that’s good. He’s pretty awful but that’s quite horrific
Show threadFletch…?Jan 3, 2023

@eirliani

“After publication of this story, Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin told Reuters in an email that ‘we have been fixing and revamping our prompts. They were just temporarily removed while we do that.’ “

Yeah. sure_jan.gif.