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Twitter layoffs gutted election information teams days before midterms
Washington Post ^ | 11/04/2022 | Drew Harwell, Cat Zakrzewski, Isaac Stanley-Becker

Posted on 11/04/2022 8:20:39 PM PDT by simpson96

Devastating cuts to Twitter’s workforce on Friday, four days before the midterm elections, are fueling anxieties among political campaigns and election offices that have counted on the social network’s staff to help them combat violent threats and viral lies.

The mass layoffs Friday gutted teams devoted to combating election misinformation, adding context to misleading tweets and communicating with journalists, public officials and campaign staff.

The layoffs included a number of people who were scheduled to be on call this weekend and early next week to monitor for signs of foreign disinformation, spam and other problematic content around the election, one former employee told The Washington Post. As of Friday morning, employee access to internal tools used for content moderation continued to be restricted, limiting staff’s ability to respond to misinformation.

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KEYWORDS: 2022; bigtech; layoffs; musk; twitter
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To: simpson96

*misinformation

That is all. Carry on.


41 posted on 11/04/2022 11:38:55 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: simpson96

I think they meant to say...

“Twitter layoffs gutted election propaganda teams days before midterms”


42 posted on 11/05/2022 12:02:09 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: simpson96
It sounds like a huge number of Twitter employees spent their time finding and banning conservatives on the platform.

What did the rest of the employees do with their time at the company?

We'll probably find out this weekend that a great many of them are non-essential.

43 posted on 11/05/2022 12:08:05 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: simpson96

They want to shut down all debate about cheating AFTER the election. That’s what they’re afraid of.

The truth!


44 posted on 11/05/2022 12:29:45 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (I was so afraid of him coming in the shower with me I would wait until later in the night” Ashley B)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
I posted this meme on Facebook 2 years ago. The other day they decided to restrict my account for 2 months due to this harmless meme from 2 years ago. Facebook really is in steep decline.

I don't know why I can't get the photo to show up but all it is is Crowder sitting behind a table with a sign saying "Trump Won in 2020, Change my mind".

45 posted on 11/05/2022 1:39:14 AM PDT by Boomer (The biden regime / identity politics is a clear and present threat to this constitutional republic.)
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To: Boomer

46 posted on 11/05/2022 1:47:52 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

ProtectOurFreedom... exactly! Well said.


47 posted on 11/05/2022 2:12:48 AM PDT by WinstonSmith1984
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To: simpson96

“But a representative from one of the national party committees said they are seeing hours-long delays in responses from their CONTACTS AT TWITTER”

Virtually admitting their law-breaking.


48 posted on 11/05/2022 2:37:24 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 35 degrees)
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To: simpson96

“She pointed to one post where a user wrote of the need to “pour in bleach or gasoline” at ballot drop boxes”

Hmmm...


49 posted on 11/05/2022 2:38:40 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 35 degrees)
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To: simpson96

““Elon Musk goes out and buys an outfit that spews lies all across the world,” (Biden) said while attending a political fundraiser in Chicago.”

Hard to argue with that. But if he (or they) do think that way, what’s the downside in Musk buying Twitter...since it can only get better if it is already spewing “lies all across the world”?


50 posted on 11/05/2022 2:41:38 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 35 degrees)
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To: simpson96

“Twitter layoffs gutted election information teams days before midterms”

It’s the equivalent of AT&T having an army of people who’s job it was to listen to political conversations in phone calls and then to jump-in to the conversations to ‘correct them’ when they heard something that they didn’t like.

Thankfully, AT&T didn’t try doing that in 1980 and Reagan won.


51 posted on 11/05/2022 2:47:26 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 35 degrees)
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To: Boomer
Found it!

https://images2.imgbox.com/c8/ad/GlDSHaAz_o.jpg


52 posted on 11/05/2022 2:55:19 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: simpson96

WaPo needs a team in-house to combat viral lies. Goodness knows WaPo has spread a LOT of viral lies and spread a LOT of misinformation.


53 posted on 11/05/2022 3:09:47 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: simpson96

This is the setup to scapegoat Twitter, at least partially, if Tuesday turns out to be a huge blowout of the Democrats. To be followed by calls for legislating “content moderation” to curb “misinformation” for all social media platforms.


54 posted on 11/05/2022 4:24:04 AM PDT by bigemmk
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To: simpson96

Amazing how the truth leaks through, in this article. It makes it very obvious that twitter was demoting Republican-friendly truth and promoting democrat-friendly propaganda.

Now that twitter is no longer working for the dems, the dems are panicking.


55 posted on 11/05/2022 5:54:12 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Our news media isn't worth camel spit. Neither is the democrat party. )
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To: simpson96

Keep hearing about Republican violence, yet no real examples are ever provided.


56 posted on 11/05/2022 7:05:10 AM PDT by Hazwaste (Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: BobL

Yeah...the “party line” is back!


57 posted on 11/05/2022 7:31:42 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: simpson96
Devastating cuts to Twitter’s workforce on Friday, four days before the midterm elections, are fueling anxieties among political campaigns and election offices that have counted on the social network’s staff to help them combat violent threats and viral lies stuff ballot boxes.
58 posted on 11/05/2022 10:08:13 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Lockbox

What is a WARN law?


59 posted on 11/05/2022 10:12:41 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act helps ensure advance notice in cases of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs.


60 posted on 11/05/2022 11:31:52 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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