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Fast times at Twitter - Musk moves in sync to reinstate “Freedom Fridays,” Musk has solicited advice from users on “What should Twitter do next?”
"Twitter’s new owner reinstated on Friday several of the accounts “permanently suspended” earlier this year, including Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, liberal comedian Kathy Griffin, and satire site The Babylon Bee, whose suspension triggered Elon Musk’s interest in the social media platform. Former US president Donald Trump remains banned for now, and Musk refused to reinstate InfoWars host Alex Jones.
“Kathie [sic] Griffin, Jorden [sic] Peterson & Babylon Bee have been reinstated,” Musk announced on Friday, adding that the “Trump decision has not yet been made.”
Musk also said that Twitter’s new policy will be “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,” explaining that “negative/hate” tweets will be demonetized and “deboosted.” He clarified that this will apply to individual posts, rather than the account of the person who made them, however.
. . . As part of what he dubbed “Freedom Fridays,” Musk has solicited advice from users on “What should Twitter do next?” Among more than 150,000 replies was a request to reinstate Jones. The InfoWars host was banned in September 2018, after getting deplatformed for alleged “abusive behavior” by Apple, Facebook, Spotify and YouTube.
That appeared to be a step too far for Musk, however. His only response to the request was “No.”
Twitter’s moderation system is in tatters
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After Elon Musk’s staff cuts, there are hardly any moderators left to talk to.
by - Nov 18, 2022 1:00 pm UTC
"Even before Twitter cut some 4,400 contract workers on November 12, the platform was showing signs of strain. After Elon Musk bought the company and laid off half of its 7,500 full time employees,
disinformation researchers and activists say, the team that took down
toxic and fake content vanished. Now, after years of developing
relationships within those teams, researchers say no one is responding
to their reports of disinformation on the site, even as data suggests
Twitter is becoming more toxic. . .The issue is particularly acute in Brazil, where a runoff presidential
election between right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva took place just days after Musk’s takeover. . .
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Disinformation also flooded Twitter during the US midterms, particularly around the race in Maricopa County, Arizona, the state’s largest county and a consistent target of right-wing election deniers. Bouzy, who was monitoring thousands of right-wing accounts, says he had “no idea who to contact” at the company to get tweets containing disinformation taken down. “Twitter is a shit show,” he says. . .
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