That above link is a gift article, so people can get around the paywall.

It's worth noting that two factor authorization isn't working properly on Twitter due to Musk. So, that's going to open up a lot more people to exposure.
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-two-factor-sms-problems/

This issue predates Musk taking over Twitter, but he's only made the situation worse since taking over.

Which is why he's under investigation.

"The US Federal Trade Commission is deepening an investigation it opened this fall into Twitter Inc.’s privacy and data security practices in the wake of the company’s takeover by billionaire Elon Musk, according to people familiar with the matter."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-20/musk-s-twitter-draws-deeper-ftc-scrutiny-over-rising-privacy-security-concerns

That's not to be confused with the FTC investigation prompted by this data leak.

Musk is under an additional, entirely separate FTC investigation going on at the same time as this one.

What we learned when Twitter whistleblower Mudge testified to Congress
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/13/twitter-whistleblower-mudge-congress/

What is Musk focusing on over at Twitter, you may wonder:

"Twitter Inc's head of trust and safety told Reuters the company manually reviewed "any and all accounts" that violated its new privacy policy by posting links to a Twitter account called ElonJet that tracked Elon Musk's private jet using information in the public domain"

Yep. Manually going through and deciding who to ban and who to not ban for sharing the @elonjet Twitter account.

This was after firing almost everyone, so assume that's all they're doing these days: manually reviewing tweets about Musk.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-manually-reviewed-all-accounts-that-posted-links-elonjet-exec-2022-12-16/

Also they're getting rid of the ban on paid political advertising. So expect a ton of dark money groups to start flooding Twitter with right wing propaganda.

Twitter said it was relaxing its ban on political and issue-based advertising on Tuesday, a reversal of the company’s long-standing approach to paid political speech.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/03/twitter-political-ads-ban-reversal/

When you also look at how they've gotten rid of bans against covid misinformation and hate speech against trans people, you can start to get a very clear idea of the sort of propaganda that's going to be flooding people's feeds in ways they can't turn off.

Twitter will no longer enforce its policy against COVID-19 misinformation, raising concerns among public health experts and social media researchers that the change could have serious consequences if it discourages vaccination and other efforts to combat the still-spreading virus.
https://apnews.com/article/twitter-ends-covid-misinformation-policy-cc232c9ce0f193c505bbc63bf57ecad6

And while Musk wants manual reviews for tweets having to do with him, he doesn't feel that's needed for anyone else.

"Elon Musk's Twitter is leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favoring restrictions on distribution rather than removing certain speech outright, its new head of trust and safety told Reuters."
https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-exec-says-moving-fast-moderation-harmful-content-surges-2022-12-03/

This, of course, doesn't work. And Musk knows that. Which is why he wouldn't rely on it when it comes to him. But he doesn't want a system that works.

"For all of the recent advances in language AI technology, it still struggles with one of the most basic applications. In a new study, scientists tested four of the best AI systems for detecting hate speech and found that all of them struggled in different ways to distinguish toxic and innocuous sentences."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/04/1025742/ai-hate-speech-moderation/

And if you think that you can stay on Twitter and just be bombarded by all that far right propaganda all day without it impacting you; that's what lots of people thought when they started watching Fox News.

Get your people off Twitter or there are going to be a lot more sad stories.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/i-gathered-stories-of-people-transformed-by-fox-news.html

@sashafox

"the more we see something repeated, the more likely we are to believe it to be true.”

Thread about the “Illusory Truth Effect” and why it is so important NOT to repeat lies on social media (or elsewhere), even with the intention of debunking them.

https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/109530716627287778

#Propaganda #Disinformation #Misinformation #Lies #Journalism

@ZhiZhu Yeah, like, being exposed to it all the time has an impact. Everyone always thinks they'll be immune to it, but they're never correct.

I like the truth sandwich approach to debunking lies.