Posted on 06/02/2023 8:58:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin resigned Thursday evening, per multiple sources, after owner Elon Musk publicly rebuked his own staff over a content moderation decision.
Catch up quick: Twitter staff had decided that a video titled "What is a Woman?" by the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh, a far-right personality who often attacks transgender people, violated the platform's hate-speech rules.
Twitter had recently announced a content deal with the Daily Wire. When Daily Wire's Jeremy Boreing tweeted a complaint about the decision, saying that the video was barred because it included instances of misgendering, Musk replied: "This was a mistake by many people at Twitter." The big picture: Musk last month announced he'd hired a new CEO for Twitter, NBCU's Linda Yaccarino, but she has not yet started in the role.
Musk has said he wants to make Twitter a haven for free speech, but his erratic decision-making on content rules has alarmed advertisers, angered activists, and kept the company in a state of disarray. Between the lines: In April, Twitter quietly dropped references in its hate speech policy to misgendering and deadnaming of trans people, but its policy still bars users from "directly" attacking others "on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease."
Irwin's predecessor, Yoel Roth, one of the few executives from Twitter's previous era who tried to work with Musk, left the company in November 2022.
Ella Irwin is the one who was supposed to be anti-censorship. The new CEO is the pro-censorship one. So, maybe more censorship is coming.
“Matt Walsh, a far-right personality who often attacks transgender people”
Axios - another worthless source
“Matt Walsh, a far-right personality who often attacks transgender people”
Axios - another worthless source
Was she hot?
Amazingly enough, I’ve managed to muddle thru life completely twitter-free since being introduced to the interwebs.
OK, this is a perfect AI application.
If the goal is to “bar users from “directly” attacking others “on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease”, train the AI on those things and nothing else. Remove all human elements from the decision making process and give users a direct link to the AI team if they feel they have been incorrectly blocked. Elon knows how to do this and he can ride herd on the AI team to make sure the algorithm is doing what he wants.
The latest is Musk said he would make it visible to followers of the Daily Wire, but no one else could see it, and no advertising. That is called shadow banning.
Basically, they are saying Musk is getting the same pressures Jack Dorsey is, so Twitter will end up in the same place.
Couldn't tell ya, Nick.
FR is the closest I have (or will) come to 'social media'.
This life's just too short, and gettin' shorter by the day . . .
No. Overweight, pie-faced, ugly, lefty white beotch.
Me too.
“Far right”=against sexually mutilating kids
Twitter: Tik-Tok for pretend intellectuals.
Musk tweeted a link to the movie earlier today, I’m most of the way through the movie and I don’t see the big deal. What I have learned is that there are a number of people who are messed up in the head and also a number of equally nutty people promoting the first group. The people with dysphoria are being used by big pharma and very bad doctors (some with dysphoria themselves) to promote all this transgender madness.
It’s a good movie that points out the absurdity of the trans movement by simply using common sense.
What’s a woman?
Yet, Amazingly enough, here you are posting on a thread about Twitter.
; )
It's up again.
Trust and Saftey wokesters are like extra pounds of fat. One is much better off losing them.
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