Kurt Wagner
Davey Alba“It’s like Musk is taking all of the content moderation best practice norms the trust and safety community has built up over the past decade and is trying to set them on fire,” @evelyndouek told us
trenchworms@daveyalba @evelyndouek I do genuinely hope that the spineless weasels who carried water for Musk every step of the way will have their reputations permanently tarred. I'd love to live in a world where the snivelling Sacks and Irwins are discredited and ignored but I'm unfortunately not convinced we do :<
Soozcat@daveyalba #Alt4You
Still, this month Irwin confirmed more cuts to teams handling global content moderation, hate speech, misinformation policy, global appeals and state media. Nine days later, two Taliban officials briefly gained access to blue checkmarks through Twitter Blue, the platform's paid subscription tier. Twitter's moderation research consortium, introduced in late 2021, is now effectively defunct, with no program managers left to oversee the work. (more)
Still, this month Irwin confirmed more cuts to teams handling global content moderation, hate speech, misinformation policy, global appeals and state media. Nine days later, two Taliban officials briefly gained access to blue checkmarks through Twitter Blue, the platform's paid subscription tier. Twitter's moderation research consortium, introduced in late 2021, is now effectively defunct, with no program managers left to oversee the work. (more)
@daveyalba #Alt4You (continued)
Dozens of as-yet unpublished - but completed - reports detailing information operations on the platform will likely never become public, according to four former staffers who worked on the studies. (In an email, Irwin said that she did not know of the reports and could not comment on them.) (more)
Dozens of as-yet unpublished - but completed - reports detailing information operations on the platform will likely never become public, according to four former staffers who worked on the studies. (In an email, Irwin said that she did not know of the reports and could not comment on them.) (more)
@daveyalba #Alt4You (continued)
"It's like Musk is taking all of the content moderation best practice norms the trust and safety community has built up over the past decade and is trying to set them on fire," said Evelyn Douek, an assistant professor at Stanford Law School. "The entire trend has been towards giving users more transparency, predictability and due process. What Musk is doing is like the antithesis of this."
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"It's like Musk is taking all of the content moderation best practice norms the trust and safety community has built up over the past decade and is trying to set them on fire," said Evelyn Douek, an assistant professor at Stanford Law School. "The entire trend has been towards giving users more transparency, predictability and due process. What Musk is doing is like the antithesis of this."
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Jaageri
MaggieL"Safety sounds like a good thing, Citizen Robespierre!"
YetAnotherGeekGuy 
@daveyalba @evelyndouek
Lotsa Hunt for Red October vibes ala Capt. Tupolev:
“I want those safety ranges set for ZERO”
…
Exec Officer Janczar:
“You arrogant ass, you’ve killed us all.”
