Posted on 11/08/2022 1:55:43 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Twitter is struggling to respond to political misinformation and other harmful posts on the social media platform after Elon Musk fired roughly half of its workforce just days before the U.S. midterm elections, according to employees who survived the cuts and an outside voting rights group.
The recent mass layoffs spared many of the people whose job it is to keep hate and misinformation off the social-media platform. Musk cut just 15% of those frontline content-moderation workers, compared to roughly 50% job cuts companywide, an executive said last week.
But in preparation for the layoffs, employees said the company also sharply reduced how many employees can look into a specific account’s digital history and behavior — a practice necessary to investigate if it’s been used maliciously and take action to suspend it. The company said it froze access to those tools to reduce “insider risk” at a time of transition.
Election watchers fear the platform may not be equipped to handle hate speech, misinformation that could impact voter safety and security, and actors seeking to cast doubt on the legitimate winners of elections around the country.
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HAHA the MSM is mad that they are loosing their grip on the world.
Pope LeoX called Martin Luther’s 95 Theses “misinformation” back in 1520, too
Just signed up for twitter today and I love the election coverage. Thanks Elon!
It’s difficult to push as much liberal disinformation with fewer stupid liberals on staff.
Trending is much more accurate now. "Cheat" trended most of the day with close to 200k tweets containing #cheat. Charlie Kirk, AZ, Machines have all trended today. It used to be tightly controlled but they must be locked out of that now too.
Meanwhile over on truth, Trending is as lame as ever.
That pile underneath the rug should have included his female-sniffing ick, plagiarism, and basement hiding.
Banning the Associated Press would get rid of a ton of misinformation!
“misinformation” is not their job...struggle on.
So the Twitter staff is struggling with “misinformation”. Well, how about this. Twitter is supposed to be a general-interest forum. Delete any post that overtly advocates violence. Those should be easy to spot. Leave everything else alone, along with a disclaimer that all views are those of the posters, and not necessarily of Twitter.
As actress Fran Drescher was quoted on another thread, “Above all else, freedom.”
Mr. Musk, how about it?
there. fixed it.
“Say misinformation one more time…i dare you”
“Struggling to create misinformation” is more likely.
The only “political disinformation” I see are those from Dementia Joe and his cohorts.
Fortunately, Musk fact checked Dementia Joe's lie filled boasts about increasing money for pensioners, which Creepy Joe was forced to delete out of embarrassment.
The misinformation made me vote MAGA today.
LOLOL! One of the all time great movie scenes, well adapted.
“HAHA the MSM is mad that they are loosing their grip on the world.”
Exactly right.
Hey, Associated Presstitutes: “misinformation” is what you serve for a product. And even Musk probably doesn’t have enough fact checkers to adequately research your lies and propaganda.
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