A very important piece from @cong and Michael Keller on the tragic but obvious outcome of Twitter laying off the engineers and investigators working on child safety.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/twitter-child-sex-abuse.html

Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. Is It Working?

Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views. “Sewer rats,” as one regulator described bad actors, remain.

@alex @cong strange that Musk tried to sell him doing that as *supportive* of victims..
@alex @cong One of our biggest worries when @Eirliani and I resigned from Twitter's #TrustandSafety Council 4 days before #Twitter dissolved it 2 mos. ago https://www.netfamilynews.org/where-did-my-twitter-go-and-other-end-of-2022-notes #contentmoderation #onlinesafety #youth #rights
Where did my Twitter go? And other end-of-2022 notes - NetFamilyNews.org

What a year it has been. And what a week. Or two, almost. I’ll start with the latest, because it was a telling cap-off to 2022: On December 8, three of us – Eirliani Abdul Rahman, a survivor of and activist against child sexual abuse, Lesley Podesta representing the Young & Resilient Research Center at […]

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@alex @cong Among other things, this important story illustrates the platforms' need of trusted partners/flaggers such as THORN.org, ProtectChildren.ca, NCMEC and other members of the #TrustandSafety Council that #Twitter dissolved 12DEC2022. Human and algorithmic #contentmoderation are essential, and so is the help and offline context external partners can provide
@alex @cong perfect illustration of Betteridge’s Law
@alex @cong the important thing is twitter is on the path to breaking even. Amazing work.

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