Want to post all the hate speech you want on Musk's Twitter and nearly never get it removed. Just pay $8 per month. Plus the bonus of your hate speech being boosted. Twitter Fails to Remove Hate Speech by Blue-Check Users: Report If you pay $8 a month, Twitter will boost your tweets, new research found, even if you post about how “Hitler was right.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitt...eport-from-center-for-countering-digital-hate Twitter is failing to remove 99 percent of hate speech posted by Twitter Blue users, new research has found, and instead may be boosting paid accounts that spew racism and homophobia. Researchers at the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) flagged hate speech to the company in tweets from 100 Twitter Blue subscribers. Four days later, they say, 99 percent of the tweets were still up and none of the accounts had been removed. The tweets, which included examples of neo-Nazism, antisemitism, racism, and homophobia, violate Twitter’s own hate speech policies, the researchers say. The tweets reported by the CCDH included a post claiming “Hitler was right,” accompanied by a video montage of the dictator, and another saying LGBT activists needed “IRON IN THEIR DIET. Preferably from a #AFiringSquad.” Twitter’s hateful content policy, updated as recently as April 2023, outlines that: “You may not directly attack other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.” The tweets found by the CCDH “clearly violate the platform's policies,” researchers wrote. Twitter Blue, a paid verification service that allows anyone to get a “blue tick” badge next to their username on the platform for only $8 a month, was rolled out in December 2022. Last month, Twitter’s then-CEO Elon Musk announced that these verified accounts would be prioritized as part of Twitter’s algorithm, meaning they are more likely to be seen by users on the platform. Paying subscribers receive “prioritized rankings in conversations and search,” according to Twitter’s own website. The company promises paid users: “Tweets that you interact with will receive a small boost in their ranking. Additionally, your replies will receive a boost that ranks them closer to the top.” CCDH researchers say they found Twitter Blue users in their samples appeared to be “given priority” in threads. “In one example of a thread containing almost 100 tweets from non-verified users, the top-ranked reply was from a Twitter Blue user calling for violence against Migrants,” they wrote. “What gives blue tick hate actors confidence to spew their bile is the knowledge that Elon Musk simply doesn’t care about the civil and human rights of Black people, Jews, Muslims and LGBTQ+ people, as long as he can make his 8 bucks a month,” Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the CCDH, said in a statement to The Daily Beast, “Our society has benefited from decades of progress on tolerance, but Elon Musk is undoing those norms at an ever-accelerating rate, by allowing hate to prosper on the spaces he administers, all with the tacit approval of the advertisers who remain on his platform.” Previous research from the CCDH found that under Elon Musk’s leadership of Twitter, tweets linking LGBT people to “grooming” skyrocketed, jumping 119 percent between Musk’s takeover in October 2022 and March 2023. The study found that five high-profile Twitter accounts responsible for consistently linking LGBT to “grooming” were set to generate $6.4 million a year in advertising revenue for Twitter. The Daily Beast reached out to Twitter for comment, and received only a poop emoji in response.
Look... Just playing devil's advocate here... and correct me if I'm wrong... but say some white-supremist operation applies for a permit to protest on the steps of the Capitol ... or anywhere for that matter, they are allowed to prance around with all their little flags etc right? Someone can walk down Main Street carrying a swastika flag no? Isn't this stuff still protected? So if Musk is allegedly is not filtering this stuff, the stuff that is not attempting to organize civil disobedience... is he not just upholding their Constitutional rights?
Twitter has a defined written 'hateful content policy, updated as recently as April 2023, outlines that: “You may not directly attack other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.” ' All users of Twitter are expected to adhere to this policy. Posts that violate the policy will be removed and accounts that regularly violate the policy will be suspended (as stated in the policy). The mechanism for reporting posts that violate the policy is also outlined. Sadly Twitter is not removing the hateful posts which are reported for paid blue check-mark subscribers and is even boosting the posts. The majority of users on Twitter expect the platform to enforce its own policy to provide a safe, non-hateful community. Similarly advertisers do not want their ads next to hateful posts on a social media website. This is about the written policy of Twitter under Musk not being enforced, not some vague malarkey about swastika flags being carried on main street. This is also a reminder that Twitter is a private company; users do not have any "right" to "free unrestricted hateful speech" on the platform -- they do however expect the written policy regarding hateful content on the platform to be followed. This is not about "Constitutional rights" -- you have no "Constitutional rights" on a private platform or in a private venue. You should however remember that you agreed to adhere to their written policies regarding content when you signed up for an account. Let's also mention that Twitter has agreements with countries regarding their required moderation of content including Germany, Australia, etc. -- in order to be allowed to operate in these countries. Come August, Twitter will need to follow the European rules regarding moderation of hateful content for major social networking platforms or be banned from the EU.
Welcome to Elon Musk's alt-right paradise... Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network It can no longer be denied. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-ron-desantis-2024-twitter/674149/ Twitter has long been described, even by its most ardent users, as a hellsite. But under Elon Musk, Twitter has evolved into a platform that is indistinguishable from the wastelands of alternative social-media sites such as Truth Social and Parler. It is now a right-wing social network. (more at above url)
Twitter loses yet another Trust & Safety Chief -- leading to a question of why Musk's alt-right white nationalist platform needs a "Trust & Safety Chief". The job role in context of Twitter 2.0 is a joke -- a platform that does basically no moderation of hateful content. Elon Musk's Twitter loses second trust and safety chief https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65786326 Twitter’s head of trust and safety says she has resigned https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/tech/twitter-head-of-trust-and-safety-resigns/index.html
Incoming CEO Yaccarino is undoubtedly offering senior manages opportunities to resign. She needs a team of her own choosing and is pretty much normal.
Linda Yaccarino has not started as the CEO of Twitter yet. She starts at the end of June. This resignation has nothing to do with Linda Yaccarino. It does have to do with Elon's recent misgendering rants and his overturning of the Trust & Safety group's hateful content decisions. Twitter safety chief resigns after misgendering row https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/02/twitter-safety-chief-resigns-after-misgendering-row/
Really? You think that it is not commonplace for senior managers to either resign before an incoming new CEO or to be removed shortly thereafter? That is your Department of Motor Vehicles clerk's view of how the corporate world rolls.
Well maybe you should read the articles and the statements from Ella Irwin and AJ Brown - both of whom left due to Elon's misgendering rants and the overriding of their Trust & Safety decisions.