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• Twitter Twitter on x

  Freedom of Speech, Not Reach: An update on our enforcement philosophy

• @twittersafety @twittersafety on x

  We're adding more transparency to the enforcement actions we take on Tweets. As a first step, soon you'll start to see labels on some Tweets identified as potentially violating our rules around Hateful Conduct letting you know that we've limited their visibility. 🧵... https://twi…

• @twittersafety @twittersafety on x

  These actions will be taken at a tweet level only and will not affect a user's account. Restricting the reach of Tweets helps reduce binary “leave up versus take down” content moderation decisions and supports our freedom of speech vs freedom of reach approach.

• @chetfaliszek @chetfaliszek on x

  Musk changed the CBC label to... 69. Get it?!?? like OMG! THAT IS HILARIOUS The frog boils slowly for a reason. This is the behavior of an abusive, petty, child and y'all accept openly attacking and belittling a news agency like this. For Tesla bros... 420!! Woo! Get it?!? https:…

• @digitaldutta Srinivas Kodali on x

  Twitter cracking down on virality of hate speech and fake news could be good. Except they have been known to ignore them in countries outside US. https://blog.twitter.com/...

• @eddie1perez Edward Perez on x

  Twitter's so-called “new” policy to moderate the reach of tweets that may violate the rules is not all that diff from what Twitter was doing anyway. Most impt? Musk needs to check himself. I spoke with @stokel for @FastCompany. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @tomfitton Tom Fitton on x

  .@Twitter still figuring out ways to censor and suppress speech? https://twitter.com/...

• @atomicanalyst Stephen Schwartz on x

  Contrast this hedged announcement with how Twitter used to handle hate speech (before most of its staff members were fired or quit in protest), or the swift, clear, and decisive action Spoutible just took to address the same problem: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/..…

• @frances_coppola Frances ‘Cassandra’ Coppola on x

  Shadowbanning goes official. https://twitter.com/...

• @tweetsbyparker Parker Lyons on x

  you mean sh-sh-sh-shadowbanning?! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @minds @minds on x

  There's a huge difference between freedom of reach to non-followers vs. freedom of reach to your existing followers. https://twitter.com/...

• @stillgray Ian Miles Cheong on x

  Twitter isn't shadowbanning with the new policy. It's limiting the reach of specific tweets and not entire accounts and it lets everyone know that the tweets are being limited. Ben is just being dishonest here. https://twitter.com/...

• @geoffreyfowler Geoffrey A. Fowler on x

  Twitter starting to address the real concerns about Shadowbanning. As I wrote recently @washingtonpost, nearly 1 in 10 Americans on social media suspect they've been shadowbanned. And there are some good ideas about how to deal with it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https:/…

• @neontaster Noam Blum on x

  It's not shadow anything if they're open about it. https://twitter.com/...

• @rothschildmd Mike Rothschild on x

  Elon Musk just discovered shadowbanning, and is apparently a fan. https://twitter.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  I remember when this was called Shadowbanning and was the world's biggest First Amendment violation. Guess things are different now for some reason. https://twitter.com/...

• @mehdirhasan Mehdi Hasan on x

  Where's Matt Taibbi when you need him? https://twitter.com/...

• @eve6 @eve6 on x

  Wow he invented shadowbanning https://twitter.com/...

• @kennethrwebster Kenny Webster on x

  Can't wait to find out which of my tweets are too hateful for public consumption https://twitter.com/...

• @jmelei Jeff Melei on x

  This important update doubles down on our commitment to transparency. If your Tweet is filtered, there will be no doubt. Freedom of Speech, Not Reach: An update on our enforcement philosophy https://blog.twitter.com/...

• @imincorrigible @imincorrigible on x

  It doesn't take a genius to be able to predict that these labels will be seen by the far right as badges of honour. If tweets are “hateful” they should be removed - this stuff should not be difficult. https://twitter.com/...

• @jeffbrutlag @jeffbrutlag on x

  Translation, “we won't let hateful tweets go viral but we'll still allow them to exist” This platform continues to be driven into the ground, because the CEO has no idea how to run a social media site https://twitter.com/...

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  It's interesting watching Musk and the people he's brought in learn content moderation in real time. This approach of labels and limiting reach on tweets that potentially violated the company's policies existed in Twitter 1.0. https://twitter.com/...