[Thread] Elon Musk says a “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets” and reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee
This week has been a week. Okay, let's just get into it. — Twitter needs to die Derek Saul / Forbes : ‘Freedom Of Speech, But Not Freedom Of Reach’: Musk Reinstates Kathy Griffin And Jordan Peterson Amid New Policy — But Not Trump Yet Tom Parker / Reclaim The Net : Twitter reinstates The Babylon Bee and others Sounak Mukhopadhyay / Livemint : Is Donald Trump getting his Twitter account back? Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, Babylon Bee get theirs back Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo : Elon Musk Says Twitter Shadowbans Are the New Law of the Land Washington Post : Musk summons engineers to Twitter HQ as millions await platform's collapse Tweets: Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Kathie Griffin, Jorden Peterson & Babylon Bee have been reinstated. Trump decision has not yet been made. Dr Jordan B Peterson / @jordanbpeterson : Don't allow the anonymous troll-demons to post with the real verified people @elonmusk. Put them in their own hell, along with others like them: LOL LULZ BRO BRUH hyper-users are narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic and sadistic. Really: https://www.sciencedirect.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Freedom Fridays ... Matt Binder / @mattbinder : he threw Kathy Griffin in there to make it appear like he made a neutral decision Kathy Griffin was suspended for impersonating Elon Musk those other two right wing accounts were suspended for transphobic attacks against specific individuals https://twitter.com/... Luke Bailey / @imbadatlife : incredible indictment that everyone is desperately looking for somewhere to meet and talk to people, and no one has even mentioned Zuckerberg's $70bn metaverse Jason Goldman / @goldman : This is not a drill!! 🚨Elon announces SHADOWBANS for Wrongthink🚨 RT IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE FIRST AMENDMENT https://twitter.com/... Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__ : Texts from an unknown sender, from discovery in the Elon Musk/Twitter suit. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... @thebabylonbee : We're back. Let that sink in. @ajb_sf : We've been talking about the distinction between freedom of speech and freedom of reach for years. One component of “reach” that we don't talk about as often is eligibility for monetization. A core focus moving forward will be ensuring we don't monetize what we don't amplify. https://twitter.com/... Jimmy Dore / @jimmy_dore : Most people seem to find this tweet VERY negative. Yet it doesn't appear to be shadow banned. #NewBossSameAsTheOldBoss https://twitter.com/... Belle &ACIRCme🦋 / @buyisilem_ : Even if twitter shuts down, Facebook is never an option. @stinkykatie : zuckerberg sucks but at least he isn't desperately trying to convince the world he's a comedian. like he's weird and gross but thank god he'll never burn instagram to the ground trying to be funny Mike Solana / @micsolana : holy shit he's going to slowly release banned accounts every “freedom friday” lmao this is the greatest show on earth Liam Nissan™ / @theliamnissan : Mark Zuckerberg wasted $36 billion building a fancy new Minecraft universe and 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 somehow made better decisions than Elon Musk Jarrett Bellini / @jarrettbellini : Assuming this is some new progressive office policy where Twitter employees are allowed out of their cages for twenty minutes. https://twitter.com/... Judd Legum / @juddlegum : Musk promised to create a content moderation content council to consider reinstatements but instead is making ad hoc decisions himself https://twitter.com/... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc : Idk man, last time he was here this platform was used to incite an insurrection, multiple people died, the Vice President of the United States was nearly assassinated, and hundreds were injured but I guess that's not enough for you to answer the question. Twitter poll it is https://twitter.com/... @moreperfectus : When a Black worker at Tesla came forward to HR and Elon Musk after being called racial slurs by his manager and seeing a fellow Black coworker beaten by a chair, he was fired for not having a “positive attitude.” https://twitter.com/... Lil Pom Poko Jerk / @rajandelman : Every Elon guy is like, “Wokes are the real elites. Blue collar workers never make fun of their boss or quit their job. Crawling on the ceiling is the easiest way to move from one room to the next. Moulting and leaving a 6-foot husk in the break room is a key part of management” Morgan J. Freeman / @mjfree : Is that just for the white, rich & privileged, or for all oppressed and marginalized groups of Americans, too? https://twitter.com/... Murtaza Hussain / @mazmhussain : Stumbling across old dril screenshots on a reddit forum five years from now https://twitter.com/... @acoyne : We will all be better off without Twitter, and so will society as a whole. As a bonus, Zuckerberg is well on the way to killing Facebook, too. Tom Winter / @winterformt : “A Blake Masters type” https://twitter.com/... Dr Jordan B Peterson / @jordanbpeterson : Thanks Elen :) @elonmusk Really. Thank you sir. Probably best to reinstate Trump too. Let him do what he needs to do, and let the people decide. Right out in the open. Where such things should be decided. https://twitter.com/... Mollie / @mzhemingway : Given that he has announced his candidacy for president, the decision should be easy and already have taken place. ZERO election interference and corruption from Twitter, please. https://twitter.com/... Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss : Yeah I mean @tomscocca made this point last week but this is just sort of making real the paranoid policy people thought existed before. https://twitter.com/... Dr Jordan B Peterson / @jordanbpeterson : And they're driving polarization and destabilizing the entire domain of public discourse @elonmusk Talk to @JonHaidt and @jean_twenge for more info. https://twitter.com/... @lpnh : - Gets reinstated to Twitter - Instantly demands censorship https://twitter.com/... @cloud_opinion : I am pleased to announce that I have joined Twitter as Chief Positivity Officer - My team will be responsible for keeping only positive tweets on Twitter. @elonmusk will report to me as Chief Complaints Officer, in addition to his role as CEO. John Rogers / @jonrog1 : The interesting difference I've noticed during the last three weeks is between those super-excited by Musks purchase and treatment of Twitter who see it primarily as a culture war battleground ('freeee speeeeech!") and those who use it to actually build things. 1/n Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : Mr. Peterson — the cohort of suspended users we brought you back with was labeled “troll-demons,” I wouldn't come out swinging like this https://twitter.com/... @camillefrancois : Fascinating for the anecdotes and detail on app stores' ability to shape the field here— Apple, Google are stepping up enforcement of content moderation standards for apps. This took center stage during the Parler removal but is increasingly applied to all across the industry. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer_ : And this asshole gets right back on to targeting Elliot Page again by misgendering and deadnaming him. He's also calling for Trump to be reinstated on here. https://twitter.com/... Azeem Azhar / @azeem : Good piece which largely confirms what sober assessment would suggest. The question is whether @elonmusk can bend various regulatory, legal, commercial and technical forces to his will. I suspect he can't and I suspect he'll be forced to compromise & won't like it. https://twitter.com/... @profjeffjarviss : Blue sky idea: instead of hiring a legacy Trust and Safety exec to replace the departed one, Elon should hire a VP, Distrust and Danger Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : $44 billion and thousands of laid of people just to unban an unfunny parody account. Excerpts below from court records of Elon Musk and his ex-wife Talulah Riley texted back-and-forth about buying Twitter. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Tom Coates / @tomcoates : In the meantime he's replatformed Jordan Peterson and Babylon Bee, both of whom could have rejoined the platform at any time if they'd just agreed to delete their anti-trans posts. They refused. Now they will freely post anti-trans stuff. It's just gross. Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__ : From an ex-Twitter employee. https://twitter.com/... @ubiquity75 : @elonmusk You're such a dummy. This was already in place and will not resolve your obligation to remove various types of material that you are required, by law, to do. Through a process called “content moderation.” The good news, I guess, is that this company's tech will fail before that. Tom Coates / @tomcoates : More idiocy. This will mean abusive accounts just keep posting terrible abusive hate speech and attacking people and they'll only be deboosted if they're observed and reported an acted upon. It also means it's completely possible to for example, organize as a hate group. https://twitter.com/... Frederic Lardinois / @fredericl : And three extremely hardcore engineers will build it over the weekend (or get fired for mediocre hardcoreness). https://twitter.com/... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : Besides that it's Kathy, it's also Jordan. Not a fan of his, but I can spell his name correctly. I'll assume this means the Drumph decision HAS been made. I mean Trump. https://t.co/Bjj60Lx7un Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : FACT CHECK: This is a very old trope that Zuckerberg and many others used years ago but whatever. It's largely meaningless. Also hate tweets have ALWAYS been downranked in Twitter and who decides what a negative tweet is? Three guesses and the first two don't count. https://twitter.com/... Sahil Rizwan / @sahilriz : All that whining & drama to end up at *checks notes* “no different from the rest of the internet” https://twitter.com/... @internethippo : https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... @martinsfp : Without clear definitions of negativity and hate, it's fair to argue that this is the direction Twitter could drift. https://twitter.com/... Scott Galloway / @profgalloway : Unstable genius @cwarzel : my theory is he really thinks attracting maximum attention to this platform will solve its big logistical problems he created and so he's gonna do all the attention grabby things he can to gin up max engagement Anthony DeRosa / @anthony : That's a no on Alex Jones returning to Twitter >> https://twitter.com/... @kfury : By that definition everyone with a notepad has freedom of speech so censorship is a-okay. https://twitter.com/... Karl Bode / @karlbode : a right wing billionaire troll is going to amplify things that right wing billionaire trolls like and bury stuff right wing billionaire trolls don't like small, independent voices that criticize corporate power, labor abuses, and general fuckery will be first against the wall https://t.co/00v03YzGdk @taylorlorenz : Elon says he'll shadowban all “negative” tweets, but doesn't have any information or clarity on what constitutes a “negative” tweet https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : This is not new. Twitter has down-ranked or limited the reach of violating tweets for years. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jeff Carlson / @themarketswork : He's an announced candidate for President of the US. Shouldn't this be a no-brainer - regardless of what you think of him? https://twitter.com/... David Drake / @somanyshrimp : lmfao prisoner exchange. kathie griffin for the babylon bee https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Also... um... Elon might want to talk with a lawyer, because if the Supreme Court reinstates Texas/Florida content moderation laws, this policy will pretty clearly break both laws, as they had rules against shadowbanning. https://twitter.com/... @iansherr : Now Elon Musk appears to endorse shadow banning. It's amazing to watch him go through learning everything we've been writing about for years in real time. https://twitter.com/... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : Eh she texted me that cannot get in. Also it's Kathy. Also she now has lost her followers and those she follows. Also I just had to refollow her. Maybe focus on actual tech over hand-waving. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : Finally the people who constantly claimed they were being shadowbanned can actually be shadowbanned https://twitter.com/... @coolasspuppy : So much for free speech. What a loser. https://twitter.com/... Alex Rubinstein / @realalexrubi : $44 billion to revolutionize Twitter just to make it “no different from the rest of the internet.” https://twitter.com/... Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy : what's a “negative” tweet? also elon is pro-shadowbanning? https://twitter.com/... @jihadwatchrs : “Hate” according to whose judgment, @elonmusk? Will there be any recognition of the fact that extremely wealthy Leftist groups such as @splcenter have weaponized spurious charges of “hate” in order to marginalize and silence truthful and accurate speech? https://twitter.com/... Renee DiResta / @noupside : The battle over the details of feed ranking and curation begins - and transparency is paramount - but this was always going to be the trade off. https://twitter.com/... Noam Blum / @neontaster : Social media has been chasing the unicorn of algorithmic contextualization of the tenor and tone and context of posts for years and they don't seem any closer to it. https://twitter.com/... James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki : This is interesting, but how do you do this algorithmically? And who's determining what counts as “negative/hate tweets? You can't crowdsource that process if the point is that you're keeping these tweets from being seen by people who aren't actively seeking them out. https://twitter.com/... Asteris Masouras / @asteris : The Party of Tigers That Eat Peoples' Faces, corporate edition https://twitter.com/... Oilfield Rando / @oilfield_rando : So....same as before but fewer outright bans lol https://twitter.com/... Dr Darren Saunders / @whereisdaz : Now give us the official definition of a negative/hate tweet https://twitter.com/... @mistresssnowphd : this is how it's worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “deboosting” e.g., CSEM will not satisfy...anyone, esp the government 🥴 https://twitter.com/... Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny : oh boy so many questions. Hate speech allowed now, just demonetized? What is negative speech? Are we restricting sharing abilities bc the bad stuff does spreads organically and often through coordination? What does moderation and enforcement look like when you fire everyone but e https://twitter.com/... Gary Legum / @garylegum : Libs of TikTok is asking who decides what's a hate tweet, which is hilarious because there was already an enormous infrastructure at Twitter doing a half-assed job of that and people like Libs of TikTok constantly complained about their decisions being woke or something. https://twitter.com/... Charles Johnson / @green_footballs : The problem, of course, is that Musk's idea of what constitutes a “hate tweet” is *very* different from most people's. The guy engages and AGREES WITH with the most hateful far right trolls on Twitter. That tells you everything about where this is headed. https://twitter.com/... Elmo Husk / @anamariecox : The way things are going I assume it's Elmo himself who will be reviewing every single fucking tweet for this protocol. https://twitter.com/... Alex Koppelman / @alexkoppelman : Continuing his incredible run of innovation, Elon appears to have invented shadowbanning and demonetization https://twitter.com/... Derek Thompson / @dkthomp : “How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Brand Advertising” https://twitter.com/... @meloniemac : This is big tech censorship all over again. Same actions, different leader. Don't like it. https://twitter.com/... Philip Bump / @pbump : So, shadow banning, but with a someone on the right making the call on what's negative. https://twitter.com/... @chongotweet : Whether a tweet is “negative” or “hate” will be determined by the Twitter moderation team who- oh god where'd they go? oh god oh fuck oh god oh fuck https://twitter.com/... @arsene48 : He actually deadass tricked himself into putting it back the same way it was before he bought it just like everyone said he would, absolutely incredible. https://twitter.com/... @senatorshoshana : 1) lmao 2) does this mean negative tweets that just say inconvenient facts or criticize things will be restricted? If so, it was nice talking at you all lmao https://twitter.com/... Elmo Husk / @anamariecox : Maybe @Popehat can explain this difference to me? I'm sure it's a valid and real thing. https://twitter.com/... Philip Klein / @philipaklein : A better way to handle this would be to just make it opt-in or opt-out. You can choose to have a completely unfettered Twitter experience, or choose to have a moderated experience. Advertisers could then choose which audience to hit. https://twitter.com/... Hannah Gais / @hannahgais : *catturd 2, chained to twitter hq in nyc, loomer style* please-e-e-e-e sir, you said no shadowbanning. you said we would be free. you said you'd bring back the banned and let them roam wild like lions. https://twitter.com/... Alexei Oreskovic / @lexnfx : Unless He is the council... https://twitter.com/... Joshua Topolsky / @joshuatopolsky : @elonmusk So people can post anti-semitic, racist, misogynist, pro-nazi stuff all they want all the time but you won't surface it unless I look for it? Can you explain the value of that content to you? Can you explain why you would want that content on twitter at all? Elizabeth Dwoskin / @lizzadwoskin : “New” Twitter policy??? Twitter has been using this exact phrasing and approach since at least 2018. https://twitter.com/... Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : This is what a lot of folks call “shadow banning” https://twitter.com/... Shirin Ghaffary / @shiringhaffary : i guess elon bypassed the yet-to-be-formed content moderation council on these ones https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Lol. So the first order of business on content moderation... Shadow banning. One of the things that his fans insisted Elon would get rid of... https://twitter.com/... Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob : There was always going to be a regime governing speech on here, a messy apparatus of content moderation, corporate policy, and algorithmic influence, and that's what this is. https://twitter.com/... Mike Elgan / @mikeelgan : This is actually a good policy. https://twitter.com/... Dan Primack / @danprimack : Elon originally said he wouldn't make any content moderation changes until he forms a content moderation council and it deliberates. Maybe this happened but, if so, he didn't announce it publicly — not disclose its members. https://twitter.com/... @martinsfp : Cue right-wing agitators getting angry about “shadowbans”, which they thought Musk would be against. https://twitter.com/... Roxy / @roxytall : i love how no one has suggested going over to facebook, we've all unanimously written it off as boomer hell and would rather have nothing lmao See also Mediagazer
@elonmuskElon Musk
Context & Ripple Effects
Musk had previously framed his Twitter plans around open-sourcing the algorithm to build trust and protecting speech; Twitter itself had also taken a visible stance in defense of users’ privacy and free-speech rights. The new approach makes reach and revenue, rather than account removal alone, central moderation tools.
Reinstating Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and The Babylon Bee pairs a broader account-access posture with penalties for posts Twitter classifies as negative or hateful. That combination makes the platform’s distribution and monetization rules the immediate point of governance.
First-order effects
Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and The Babylon Bee regain access to Twitter, while authors of posts covered by the new policy face reduced distribution and lost monetization.
Twitter’s moderation operation must apply a policy that distinguishes account reinstatement from eligibility for reach and revenue.
Second-order effects
Creators and publishers now have a stronger incentive to optimize for Twitter’s visibility and monetization thresholds, not merely to avoid suspension.
The earlier commitment to algorithmic openness becomes more consequential: users’ ability to assess deboosting depends on how clearly Twitter explains and enforces those rules.
Third-order effects
If this model persists, Twitter’s speech governance shifts toward economic and distribution controls, where platform power is exercised through ranking and monetization as much as account bans.
Trust in platform moderation increasingly rests on whether policies that affect reach can be understood and applied consistently, rather than on a simple permissive-versus-restrictive speech stance.
The trend: Social platforms are moving moderation decisions from binary account removal toward graduated controls over visibility and creator revenue.
Don't allow the anonymous troll-demons to post with the real verified people @elonmusk. Put them in their own hell, along with others like them: LOL LULZ BRO BRUH hyper-users are narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic and sadistic. Really: https://www.sciencedirect.com/ ... ht…
incredible indictment that everyone is desperately looking for somewhere to meet and talk to people, and no one has even mentioned Zuckerberg's $70bn metaverse
We've been talking about the distinction between freedom of speech and freedom of reach for years. One component of “reach” that we don't talk about as often is eligibility for monetization. A core focus moving forward will be ensuring we don't monetize what we don't amplify. htt…
Every Elon guy is like, “Wokes are the real elites. Blue collar workers never make fun of their boss or quit their job. Crawling on the ceiling is the easiest way to move from one room to the next. Moulting and leaving a 6-foot husk in the break room is a key part of management”
I am pleased to announce that I have joined Twitter as Chief Positivity Officer - My team will be responsible for keeping only positive tweets on Twitter. @elonmusk will report to me as Chief Complaints Officer, in addition to his role as CEO.
zuckerberg sucks but at least he isn't desperately trying to convince the world he's a comedian. like he's weird and gross but thank god he'll never burn instagram to the ground trying to be funny
Thanks Elen :) @elonmusk Really. Thank you sir. Probably best to reinstate Trump too. Let him do what he needs to do, and let the people decide. Right out in the open. Where such things should be decided. https://twitter.com/...
Yeah I mean @tomscocca made this point last week but this is just sort of making real the paranoid policy people thought existed before. https://twitter.com/...
And they're driving polarization and destabilizing the entire domain of public discourse @elonmusk Talk to @JonHaidt and @jean_twenge for more info. https://twitter.com/...
Mr. Peterson — the cohort of suspended users we brought you back with was labeled “troll-demons,” I wouldn't come out swinging like this https://twitter.com/...
Musk promised to create a content moderation content council to consider reinstatements but instead is making ad hoc decisions himself https://twitter.com/...
Idk man, last time he was here this platform was used to incite an insurrection, multiple people died, the Vice President of the United States was nearly assassinated, and hundreds were injured but I guess that's not enough for you to answer the question. Twitter poll it is https…
The interesting difference I've noticed during the last three weeks is between those super-excited by Musks purchase and treatment of Twitter who see it primarily as a culture war battleground ('freeee speeeeech!") and those who use it to actually build things. 1/n
When a Black worker at Tesla came forward to HR and Elon Musk after being called racial slurs by his manager and seeing a fellow Black coworker beaten by a chair, he was fired for not having a “positive attitude.” https://twitter.com/...
Given that he has announced his candidacy for president, the decision should be easy and already have taken place. ZERO election interference and corruption from Twitter, please. https://twitter.com/...
Fascinating for the anecdotes and detail on app stores' ability to shape the field here— Apple, Google are stepping up enforcement of content moderation standards for apps. This took center stage during the Parler removal but is increasingly applied to all across the industry. ht…
And this asshole gets right back on to targeting Elliot Page again by misgendering and deadnaming him. He's also calling for Trump to be reinstated on here. https://twitter.com/...
Good piece which largely confirms what sober assessment would suggest. The question is whether @elonmusk can bend various regulatory, legal, commercial and technical forces to his will. I suspect he can't and I suspect he'll be forced to compromise & won't like it. https://twitte…
$44 billion and thousands of laid of people just to unban an unfunny parody account. Excerpts below from court records of Elon Musk and his ex-wife Talulah Riley texted back-and-forth about buying Twitter. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
In the meantime he's replatformed Jordan Peterson and Babylon Bee, both of whom could have rejoined the platform at any time if they'd just agreed to delete their anti-trans posts. They refused. Now they will freely post anti-trans stuff. It's just gross.
@elonmusk You're such a dummy. This was already in place and will not resolve your obligation to remove various types of material that you are required, by law, to do. Through a process called “content moderation.” The good news, I guess, is that this company's tech will fail bef…
More idiocy. This will mean abusive accounts just keep posting terrible abusive hate speech and attacking people and they'll only be deboosted if they're observed and reported an acted upon. It also means it's completely possible to for example, organize as a hate group. https://…
Besides that it's Kathy, it's also Jordan. Not a fan of his, but I can spell his name correctly. I'll assume this means the Drumph decision HAS been made. I mean Trump. https://t.co/Bjj60Lx7un
FACT CHECK: This is a very old trope that Zuckerberg and many others used years ago but whatever. It's largely meaningless. Also hate tweets have ALWAYS been downranked in Twitter and who decides what a negative tweet is? Three guesses and the first two don't count. https://twitt…
my theory is he really thinks attracting maximum attention to this platform will solve its big logistical problems he created and so he's gonna do all the attention grabby things he can to gin up max engagement
a right wing billionaire troll is going to amplify things that right wing billionaire trolls like and bury stuff right wing billionaire trolls don't like small, independent voices that criticize corporate power, labor abuses, and general fuckery will be first against the wall htt…
Elon says he'll shadowban all “negative” tweets, but doesn't have any information or clarity on what constitutes a “negative” tweet https://twitter.com/...
Also... um... Elon might want to talk with a lawyer, because if the Supreme Court reinstates Texas/Florida content moderation laws, this policy will pretty clearly break both laws, as they had rules against shadowbanning. https://twitter.com/...
Now Elon Musk appears to endorse shadow banning. It's amazing to watch him go through learning everything we've been writing about for years in real time. https://twitter.com/...
Eh she texted me that cannot get in. Also it's Kathy. Also she now has lost her followers and those she follows. Also I just had to refollow her. Maybe focus on actual tech over hand-waving. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
“Hate” according to whose judgment, @elonmusk? Will there be any recognition of the fact that extremely wealthy Leftist groups such as @splcenter have weaponized spurious charges of “hate” in order to marginalize and silence truthful and accurate speech? https://twitter.com/...
The battle over the details of feed ranking and curation begins - and transparency is paramount - but this was always going to be the trade off. https://twitter.com/...
Social media has been chasing the unicorn of algorithmic contextualization of the tenor and tone and context of posts for years and they don't seem any closer to it. https://twitter.com/...
This is interesting, but how do you do this algorithmically? And who's determining what counts as “negative/hate tweets? You can't crowdsource that process if the point is that you're keeping these tweets from being seen by people who aren't actively seeking them out. https://twi…
this is how it's worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “deboosting” e.g., CSEM will not satisfy...anyone, esp the government 🥴 https://twitter.com/...
oh boy so many questions. Hate speech allowed now, just demonetized? What is negative speech? Are we restricting sharing abilities bc the bad stuff does spreads organically and often through coordination? What does moderation and enforcement look like when you fire everyone but e…
Libs of TikTok is asking who decides what's a hate tweet, which is hilarious because there was already an enormous infrastructure at Twitter doing a half-assed job of that and people like Libs of TikTok constantly complained about their decisions being woke or something. https://…
The problem, of course, is that Musk's idea of what constitutes a “hate tweet” is *very* different from most people's. The guy engages and AGREES WITH with the most hateful far right trolls on Twitter. That tells you everything about where this is headed. https://twitter.com/...
Whether a tweet is “negative” or “hate” will be determined by the Twitter moderation team who- oh god where'd they go? oh god oh fuck oh god oh fuck https://twitter.com/...
He actually deadass tricked himself into putting it back the same way it was before he bought it just like everyone said he would, absolutely incredible. https://twitter.com/...
1) lmao 2) does this mean negative tweets that just say inconvenient facts or criticize things will be restricted? If so, it was nice talking at you all lmao https://twitter.com/...
A better way to handle this would be to just make it opt-in or opt-out. You can choose to have a completely unfettered Twitter experience, or choose to have a moderated experience. Advertisers could then choose which audience to hit. https://twitter.com/...
*catturd 2, chained to twitter hq in nyc, loomer style* please-e-e-e-e sir, you said no shadowbanning. you said we would be free. you said you'd bring back the banned and let them roam wild like lions. https://twitter.com/...
@elonmusk So people can post anti-semitic, racist, misogynist, pro-nazi stuff all they want all the time but you won't surface it unless I look for it? Can you explain the value of that content to you? Can you explain why you would want that content on twitter at all?
Lol. So the first order of business on content moderation... Shadow banning. One of the things that his fans insisted Elon would get rid of... https://twitter.com/...
There was always going to be a regime governing speech on here, a messy apparatus of content moderation, corporate policy, and algorithmic influence, and that's what this is. https://twitter.com/...
Elon originally said he wouldn't make any content moderation changes until he forms a content moderation council and it deliberates. Maybe this happened but, if so, he didn't announce it publicly — not disclose its members. https://twitter.com/...
Last week, I made the decision to leave my role leading Trust & Safety at Twitter. Today, I'm sharing a few thoughts about what comes next for the site. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Very interesting. Twitter relies on ads for 90 per cent of revenue and former head of Twitter trust and safety says under Elon Musk recently been censoring more not less despite freedom rhetoric because of advertisers https://twitter.com/...
I was pretty frustrated with @yoyoel in his last few weeks at Twitter. He seemed to spend most of his time putting an entirely disingenuous favorable gloss on the dangerous bullshit of Musk. Apparently having left he now feels more able to speak freely. https://www.nytimes.com/..…
What's Twitter's Future? “even if Mr. Musk is able to free Twitter from the influence of powerful advertisers, his path to unfettered speech is still not clear. Twitter remains bound by the laws and regulations of the countries in which it operates.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Yoel: you were on the Twitter Space with Elon for advertisers mere days before resigning. You spoke in that Space of Twitter's dedication to core principles of community safety. What should I believe: your words then or your words now? https://twitter.com/...
The former head of Safety at Twitter wrote this op-ed in the Times about his experiences and exit. It is *very* illuminating and alarming — not for the reason the Musk stans think it is: this provides evidence of how little safeguards were in place before/since his takeover. http…
Good piece from @yoyoel that touches on, among other things, who really has the power to limit speech on the platform https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Twitter's former head of trust and safety @yoyoel on why he left last week: “A Twitter whose policies are defined by unilateral edict has little need for a trust and safety function” https://www.nytimes.com/...