From FL lawyer Jeff Childs’ email “Coffee and Covid”, today’s edition:
“🔥 Meanwhile, Musk tweeted this weekend that both Apple and Amazon have agreed to restart advertising on Twitter, after both companies had joined a noisy public blacklist opposing Musks’ restoration of banned Twitter accounts. So that’s good.
Then, the Daily Wire ran a hopeful story yesterday about Twitter headlined, “Zero Tolerance’: Suspension Rate Nearly Doubles For Twitter Accounts Exploiting Child Sex Abuse Material.” According to an independent researcher, Twitter, which had been widely criticized for years for ignoring child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), is now — under Musk’s management — removing offensive material at a “faster, more efficient, and more aggressive” speed, having at least doubled the daily suspension rate of accounts promoting CSAM.
Eliza Bleu, a survivor advocate against human trafficking, who has long complained about Twitter’s inaction over CSAM, told The Daily Wire she was “floored” after seeing the latest report of how many profiles have been recently removed. “I don’t think I thought any of this stuff was even possible at the scale that they’re removing it now,” Bleu said. “I feel like I’m witnessing a miracle.”
As an example, the recently-issued report compared 44,000 DAILY removals of CSAM-involved user profiles under Twitter’s new management to only about 57,000 such removals in a MONTH under the company’s old management.
During a live stream this weekend, Musk attributed the recent success to Twitter USERS. “I think we’ve actually had like a really good case of crowdsourcing of having people on Twitter actually help solve the child exploitation stuff,” Musk said Saturday. “It is true — yes — Twitter has done more to stop child exploitation in the last month than probably the last ten years. It kind of blows my mind, frankly, and we’re gonna keep doing it. It’s always gonna be number one. I mean, kids can’t defend themselves —so, we must.”
One wonders, doesn’t one, why Twitter’s old management — with its giant hive of thousands of additional “content moderators” — had so much trouble getting rid of CSAM, compared to the newly-reorganized, much leaner company. I mean, old Twitter used to LOVE banning accounts, if you measure affection for the practice by the number of bodies assigned to that job.
Why then was CSAM so hard for them?
You know the reason. Anyway, more progress!”
This in itself is a huge contribution by Elon Musk in the saving of countless children.
Children who our government could care less about.
This is very good news.