Derek Powazek 🐐Nov 20, 2023

Elon routinely interacted with and retweeted nazis on Twitter long before he bought it. After, he fired the content safety staff and courted nazis who had been banned and put them back on the site. Earlier this year he started PAYING THEM to keep posting.

It's nice that people are noticing his nazi shit now, but it's a journalistic malpractice that it's taken this long and most omit this history.

This WaPo story is the exception: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/19/antisemiticism-internet-elon-musk-israel-war/

Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it.

Antisemitism has long festered on the internet, but the Israel-Gaza war and the loosening of content moderation on X have propelled it to unprecedented levels.

The Washington Post
Show threadRabbi Nathan Farb
@fraying there is a reason why, as a responsible Jewish community leader, I permanently deleted my twitter account a year ago. Twitter was never a safe space for Jews (or most other minorities), but after Elon, the "occasional" moderation seemed to vanish entirely.
Nov 20, 2023 at 2:07amWeb
Show threadRabbi Nathan FarbNov 22, 2023

@fraying

I'm proud to say that more and more Jewish leaders are leaving that awful platform. I've been a part of numerous private discussions among Rabbis who are still there looking to make their exit.

Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Nov 23, 2023
@rabbinathan leaders lead!