Employees and moderation advisers say loosening the platform’s rules would bring on an era of increased toxicity, causing users from marginalized backgrounds to flee.
Twitter as “the free speech wing of the free speech party” after UK officials suggested tweets may have contributed to riots in London. Since then Twitter has, like other social networks, strengthened its moderation as recognition of the potential harms of online harassment and falsehoods have grown. During the 2020 US presidential election campaign, Twitterarticle about the son of then presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying it was based on emails that may have been obtained inappropriately.
Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO and president of GLAAD, a nonprofit that promotes LGBTQ rights and is also on Twitter’s advisory council,that Musk’s ownership made her “nervous for the online safety of the LGBTQ community.” Wu said she never got the sense that Twitter’s Trust and Safety team made decisions motivated by politics, a claimby some of its critics. “They had a version of their product that was bad for users, and it was in good faith that they were trying to figure out how to make it better,” says Wu.
Andrew Behar, CEO of the nonprofit As You Sow, which represents a group of activist Twitter shareholders, says Twitter under Musk will likely look a lot like Meta under Mark Zuckerberg.
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