>We’re currently expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats.
Not even a year ago they fired the majority of staff and disbanded entire teams. Whatever expansion there is now is dwarfed by those massive cuts. Twitter's policy has been, and continues to be, to keep moderation to a skeleton crew as a cost-cutting measure.
It's going to be extremely funny to see what happens to Community Notes on political advertising. Although this is very much "after the lie has got halfway round the world, we're going to help truth get its boots on".
I see no reason why "select" advertisers (where "select" means, "Elon selects them") would not be offered an option to pay extra to disable community notes from being on their ads, even though they are implying that's not the case here. why would Musk refuse more cash to support propaganda he agrees with anyway?
Because he's in the lucky position of not needing it. They already split their revenue with creators, accepting such a bribe would not benefit him. So awful PR for no real benefit.
EDIT: thread is getting derailed by whether or not people have seen specifically Cheech and Chong. Recentering: ads are widely weed edibles, AliExpress dropshippers, and sexual apps/content.
Says a lot about the state of Twitter when its most notorious bannee returned only to drop a link to his personal website, which apparently also functions as a begging bowl.
I think journalists are allowed as long as they don't publish realtime location data of individuals, which seems consistent with safety policies elsewhere.
Edit: not complaining about downmodding, but if someone has a factual response, please post it, because I read a lot about civil liberties and haven't heard of any journalists being banned for non-safety reasons.
"Rules for thee, but not for me" is not a consistent policy. Especially when the "rules for thee" bit is twisted wildly out of shape to resemble nothing beyond a schoolyard bully's lies.
Why hasn't a group of newspapers and other media together launched an exact knockoff of old twitter yet? Just neutral ground for all of them. If they have a whitehouse press pass, they're cleared as legit.
It's not technically hard to build and if you run your own servers not that expensive even at scale in the millions.
We have blazingly fast web servers and database software these days compared to when twitter and facebook first launched, even the hardware is exponentially faster and you don't have to support SMS anymore like how twitter got it's start.
It's the audience that's valuable, and on Old Twitter the huge diversity of sources. It used to be a valuable input into news, and that's one of the things that basically been destroyed without replacement. No doubt individual journos are keeping eyes on parts of Mastodon, but it's fundamentally not as suitable.
Mastodon is basically wordpress micro-blogging with trackbacks
We actually need a monolith
If every major newspaper and media outlet had their own unified independent social media network and mentioned it at the end of every article and video segment, it would be millions of people within a year.
That's literally how twitter audience was built, every media outlet kept mentioning it the first few years.
Readit News
>Building on our commitment to free expression, we are also going to allow political advertising.
The rest is generic discussion of their Very Important Values.
>We’re currently expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats.
Not even a year ago they fired the majority of staff and disbanded entire teams. Whatever expansion there is now is dwarfed by those massive cuts. Twitter's policy has been, and continues to be, to keep moderation to a skeleton crew as a cost-cutting measure.
18 year old "breeder" who has "already pumped out 20 kids", and is getting "LICK LICK"
https://twitter.com/jpohhhh/status/1697008262028116178?s=20
EDIT: thread is getting derailed by whether or not people have seen specifically Cheech and Chong. Recentering: ads are widely weed edibles, AliExpress dropshippers, and sexual apps/content.
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Edit: not complaining about downmodding, but if someone has a factual response, please post it, because I read a lot about civil liberties and haven't heard of any journalists being banned for non-safety reasons.
It's not technically hard to build and if you run your own servers not that expensive even at scale in the millions.
We have blazingly fast web servers and database software these days compared to when twitter and facebook first launched, even the hardware is exponentially faster and you don't have to support SMS anymore like how twitter got it's start.
It's the audience that's valuable, and on Old Twitter the huge diversity of sources. It used to be a valuable input into news, and that's one of the things that basically been destroyed without replacement. No doubt individual journos are keeping eyes on parts of Mastodon, but it's fundamentally not as suitable.
We actually need a monolith
If every major newspaper and media outlet had their own unified independent social media network and mentioned it at the end of every article and video segment, it would be millions of people within a year.
That's literally how twitter audience was built, every media outlet kept mentioning it the first few years.
Will twitter make it that far? Doesn't it have to pay back like $13bn by the end of this year?