Sweeney had days earlier accused Musk’s Twitter of using a filtering technique to hide his tweets, and revealed what he said were leaked internal communications showing a Twitter content-moderation executive in charge of the Trust and Safety division ordering her team to suppress the account’...
Social media moderation policies are often at the center of public debate, and their implementation and enactment are sometimes surrounded by a veil of mystery. Unsurprisingly, due to limited platform transparency and data access, relatively little resea
and policy-makers, as it might pose threats to freedom of speech [23]. A shift toward soft-moderation approaches, which include down-ranking (i.e., lowering the visibility of certain content in other users’ feeds), “shadow banning” (i.e., not showing that content to other users), a...
INTERNET content moderationHISTORY of the Soviet UnionBOX-Jenkins forecastingFREEDOM of expressionOn February 28th, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, Twitter announced the expansion of its labelling policy for "Russia state-affiliated media", in order to address ...
Oct. 31: Musk fires Twitter’s board of directors and makes himself the board’s sole member. Nov. 3: General Mills and Audi pause ads on Twitter. Other advertisers express concerns about content moderation under Musk and whether staying on Twitter might tarnish their brands. ...
Also at the TED2022 conference, Musk shared how he would like to see the platform change under his ownership. "I think it's very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech," he said at the time, acknowledging that some content moderation would be needed to deal with ...
In May, he appointed Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s former head of advertising, as Twitter’s chief in an effort to woo back dozens of big advertisers that haddesertedthe platform over Musk’sunorthodoxleadership style and looser content moderation. ...
Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media Most users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn. Whether faced with "fake news" or livestreamed violence, "content moderators"-...
Musk has said he plans to rethink Twitter’s content moderation policies in service of a more maximalist approach to “free speech.” The billionaire has also said he disagrees with Twitter’s practice of permanent bans for those who repeatedly violate its rules, raising the possibility that a ...
In the days following Musk’s takeover, some of Twitter’s biggest advertisers also began pausing their spend on the platform over concerns about the layoffs, what Musk’s “free speech” vision would mean for content moderation and general uncertainty about the company’s future. On November ...