Posted on 11/23/2022 11:49:50 AM PST by Red Badger
The Washington Post is reporting that Elon Musk made several “woke” staff members “cry” when he started rolling out his free speech agenda at Twitter.
In a Tuesday tech report, the newspaper accuses Musk of undermining Twitter’s ability to “protect vulnerable communities.”
The article, written by reporters Cat Zakrzewski, Faiz Siddiqui, and Joseph Menn, argues that Musk imposed his will on the company by gutting the “Trust and Safety team.”
The team previously handled the censorship of Twitter users and deliberated to “define dangerous language.”
The piece, headlined “Musk’s ‘free speech’ agenda dismantles safety work at Twitter, insiders say,” suggests he did so callously.
The report mentions multiple times that Musk’s decisions made Twitter employees “cry.”
The story cited more than a dozen former and current Twitter employees frustrated with how Musk undid “years of careful work.”
At the top of the list of employees’ complaints was Musk’s decision to reinstate the Twitter accounts of President Donald Trump, satirical conservative site The Babylon Bee, and others that were deemed threats by the now-defunct Trust and Safety team.
The report added, “Massive layoffs and Musk’s demand that remaining employees pledge to work ‘hardcore’ hours have left one of the world’s most influential social media sites operating with a skeleton staff and experts predicting an eventual crash.
“Meanwhile, advertisers are fleeing.”
It was then claimed that Musk leveraged “culture-war issues” to make the company in his own image.
The piece said, “Musk has moved rapidly — at times erratically — to undermine a regime built over a decade to define dangerous language on the site and protect vulnerable communities, replacing it with his own more impulsive style of ad hoc decision-making.”
As the article continued, the reporters said they spoke to “more than a dozen current and former employees.”
Those employees reportedly claimed that Musk was able to impose his will on Twitter because he “fired or alienated Trust and Safety team leaders and reversed their decisions.”
Rather than repopulate the team, the piece claimed, “Musk is looking to automate much of the Trust and Safety team’s work to police content — eliminating some of the nuance from complicated decisions for a cheaper approach.”
The report implies that Twitter will make poorer moderation decisions going forward.
The Washington Post reported how, “On his first night as owner, Musk fired its leader of 11 years, former Trust and Safety head Vijaya Gadde.”
Gadde has previously been identified as Twitter’s “censorship chief” and was instrumental in banning Trump and blocking the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
While suggesting that Musk is insensitive, the Post’s report stated that within hours of assuming control of the site, “Gadde’s access to company email and other systems was cut off; she couldn’t even say a formal farewell.
“At a Halloween party at Twitter headquarters where workers had brought children dressed in costumes, some employees quietly left to go cry.”
Mentioning Musk’s decision to reinstate The Babylon Bee and renowned clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, The Post stated, “If the company restored the two accounts without a clear reason, it would undo years of careful work.”
It characterized Musk’s decision as a “sudden demand” that was “problematic.”
The piece also described “Black Thursday” – the day on which Musk laid off a big portion of the Trust and Safety team, writing, “As layoff notices went out — first to Asia and Europe, then the United States — a group of longtime Twitter executives huddled together in a conference room and cried.”
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the executive director of an Indian rights group called Equality Labs, after seeing her emails to fired Twitter employers bounce back to her, told the paper, “It is such a dangerous time to have fired the moderators and this team.
“Twitter has been already in a state of failure, this is just the nail in the coffin.”
“Twitter has been already in a state of failure, this is just the nail in the coffin.”
Au contraire. He’s pulling the nails out.
“Trust and Safety team”
It’s never what they say it is.
Inflation Reduction Act?
Affordable Health Care Act?
Never trust these commies!
Ah! And who is (was) doing the influencing?
This is precisely why they are afraid of free speech.
“A friend of his was banned thus hurting the friend’s reputation and company.”
IIRC, that was Seth from Babylon Bee.
I still can’t get over the audacity for newspapers, who live and breathe the first amendment, suggesting limitations on free speech.
Musk fired something like 75% of the work force and it's still operating with more users.
The “Trust and Safety team.”
Part of the Ministry of Truth, (if not also the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty). Right up there with the The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
Censors are NEVER the good guys.
Three quarters of Twitter’s staff is gone, but Twitter is still running.
I guess those 3/4 weren’t important.
The Biden administration will find a way to try to punish Musk for this. This article is a deep-state opening salvo.
““dangerous language. It includes clear, explicit, and imminent threats of violence”
That is half of Bidet’s speeches!
What a bunch of toddlers. I will enjoy much shadenfreud when these toddlers get smacked in the face by reality. Their entire lives have been pampered and protected. Day care. Kindergarten. Public school. College. Twitter. They are the clowns who have never been in a fist fight but scream SILENCE IS VIOLENCE the same time they say WORDS ARE VIOLENCE.
Bottom line- because nobody expects any 3rd grader to be accountable or actually work at a job
That thread is locked. :)
The end of censorship made them cry.
Making grown men cry — the Gordon Ramsay of tech!
No one remembers me, guess I'll just sit and grouch, If I could have a place... on my parent's couch.
Tears from my safe place, pain in my heart;
Because Elon.. fiired....my worthless part.
If I could start anew, I'd find some other work;
Don't think that will happen, because I just won't look;
Musk is so damn greedy, and I'm am so needy;
If Elon had not... taken..., my... cushy job
Whoa oh oh, I aam mel...ting....
Interlude:
We were so important, though we took the fall.
If only the Board...would have said, we love you censoring all.
There are literally millions of people out there in the world who would love to shut us up permanently...................
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I have been thru four buyouts of companies I worked for by other companies.
Every time, the entire management staff were fired, laid off, let go, or whatever euphemism you wish to use.
These snowflakes just got a lesson in real life......................
Heck, they could move to Canada or Mexico and see how they like their laws..................
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