“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes
“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes
"'Election Integrity' Team... was undermining election integrity," Musk writes.
“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes::"'Election Integrity' Team... was undermining election integrity," Musk writes.
I have a hunch that in the terrifyingly near future, we're going to see the internet absolutely dominated by enshitification.
Don't get me wrong, it's bad now ...because like the frogs in hot water, we collectively just tolerate changes for the worse. But it used to be small incremental changes over a long period.
Then this Musk asshole comes along, looks at the frogs ever so slowly cooking.... and cranks the stove to max, pisses in the frog-pot, supplements the heating element with a welding torch, and flips the frogs off as he pours gasoline all over the kitchen.
And the frogs JUST FUCKING TAKE IT.
What message does that send to the rest of the internet?
207conservative doesn't like being treated like an equal, decides to abolish the group that produced evidence suggesting equality
Sounds about right
92When you’ve lived a life of privilege, equality seems like oppression.
62If 4chan made Trump win in 2016, Twitter might make Trump win in 2024. Which is a scary thought. Just imagine the level of control one rich man can have over the information highway, Twitter, one of the biggest social media sites in the world, used still by many politicians, journalists and reporters on both sides. It's happening.
53This American Life had a good segment about a content moderator at Twitter
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/797/what-i-was-thinking-as-we-were-sinking/act-two-7
Like the main content moderator who quit.
Note it's 30+minutes and takes a little while to get to Twitter, but it includes reported interactions with Musk.
It talks about the election group of moderators.
51Fucking hate this man.
43Tbf they're a social media company. If they shut down completely the world wouldn't really skip a beat.
25Elon Musk is a fucking Neo Nazi aka "The Modern Day Republican", anything that even acknowledges the Democrats as a viable political party is "Extremist Far Left Nonsense" to these deplorables.
24ah our dayli reminder that Elon Musk is a cunt and as always he delivers!
16🤡
11This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Elon Musk-owned social network formerly named Twitter has reportedly cut half of its election integrity team just weeks after saying it would expand the group.
Now operating under the name X, Musk's firm "is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud on the platform, including the head of the group, according to three people familiar with the situation," The Information reported yesterday, adding:
The cuts hit all four Dublin-based members of the team, including Aaron Rodericks, its leader, who is based in Ireland, the people familiar with the matter said.
In response he said he received "a barrage of threatening, and abusive messages" from persons who wrongly believed the posts were an attempt by X to censor free speech and influence election outcomes.
But on August 29, X said it was "expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats."
Using nearly identical language as last month's announcement, she said X is "expanding the safety and election teams all around the world to focus on combating things like manipulation, surfacing of inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for any emerging threats."
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11So Putin told you to do this? I mean, why else would you do something so blatantly stupid?
11I have run out of surprised reactions to his bullshit.
7They were being fair and balanced, not favoring a particular candidate or party. This of course is not what Musk intended, so they got the axe.
6It's modern social media, not pedalling conspiracy theories is bad for business.
5I'm about 75% certain this guy has no idea which words are coming out of his mouth.
2@L4s Funny how musk fears the truth
2Man I'd pay money for him to do the same thing to the totally democratic election commission of Pakistan.
But that would involve getting rid of a useless thing which I don't think Musk is physically capable of doing lol
-2This guy 👈 [sing-song]
-2If 4chan made Trump win in 2016, Twitter might make Trump win in 2024. Which is a scary thought. Just imagine the level of control one rich man can have over the information highway, Twitter, one of the biggest social media sites in the world, used still by many politicians, journalists and reporters on both sides. It's happening.
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