Musk’s antics have distracted from giant dangers in Twitter’s overseas markets.
Human Rights Watch. In effect, Knight said, those tweets are suggesting “everybody in Tigray deserves to starve to death in a famine.”
The challenging part is identifying the harmful content to begin with, especially with a skeleton crew. Knight predicted that severely reducing Twitter’s roster of content moderators would “definitely have a really significant impact on the kind of content that finds its way to Twitter.” There are also concerns that loose moderation could spark a “migration” of hateful users to Twitter from larger platforms like Facebook, she said.
The billionaire—having spent $44 billion to buy Twitter, more than it was worth, by his own admission—has been eager to rapidly overhaul its culture and pace of innovation. One of his most visible early gambits was a plan to foster “citizen journalism” by allowing any user to receive a “verified” badge in exchange for $8 per month.
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