Sources: Twitter has one staffer left on a team dedicated to removing CSAM after layoffs, despite Elon Musk saying “removing child exploitation is priority #1”
Just one person remains to enforce the company's ban on child sexual abuse content across Japan and the Asia Pacific region.
Wired Morgan Meaker
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Discussion
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@oliviasolon
Olivia Solon
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This builds on @WIRED's reporting that it has just one staff member focused on this issue in Asia. The teams in Ireland and the US are also heavily affected. https://www.wired.co.uk/...
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@oliviasolon
Olivia Solon
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Elon Musk has decimated the specialist global team dedicated to tackling child sexual exploitation, leaving behind an overwhelmed skeleton crew. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@deutschjill
Jillian Deutsch
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“Having experienced experts and teams in place, as well as those familiar with EU legislation seems to me an obvious baseline from which to scale up this fight"against child sexual abuse content, Commissioner Ylva Johansson said. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@esqueer_
Alejandra Caraballo
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Watch what they do, not what they say. https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@mikellestreet
@mikellestreet
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The reason this is so bad is because even with the team fully staffed they were admittedly understaffed and could not effectively moderate. https://twitter.com/...
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@mosquitocapital
@mosquitocapital
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God damn it. This is the one thing you cannot mess up... Real people will be hurt by this. Hurt badly in ways you can't just gloss over with emphatic words. https://www.wired.com/...
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@rvawonk
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
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The people who've spent the past year calling everyone pedophiles and groomers have managed to make an idol out of someone who very well may be making it easier for actual pedophiles and cyber criminals to spread child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Twitter. https://twitter.com/…
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@iansherr
@iansherr
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Top priority—Except when that person is sick or on PTO? https://twitter.com/...
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@rvawonk
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
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Layoffs at Twitter have gutted the company's child safety team. Only *one* person remains to enforce Twitter's ban on child sexual abuse content across Japan and the entire Asia Pacific region, which encompasses more than 60% of the world's population. https://www.wired.com/...
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@elizableu
Eliza
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PhotoDNA & proprietary tools were responsible for removing 97% of what was detected/removed (when it actually was removed) off of Twitter according to Twitters own transparency report prior to Musk. They refused to make removing child sexual abuse material at scale a priority. ht…
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@elizableu
Eliza
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India and the EU but especially India will play 0 games when it comes to Twitter and their child sexual abuse/exploitation material problem.
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@szhang_ds
Sophie Zhang
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The opaque nature of social media means that outsiders can't responsively adjudicate how effectively social media actually deals with problems such as CSAM, bots, etc. My guess is Elon has focused staffers on responsive vs proactive escalations to win PR. https://twitter.com/...
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@calamur
Harini Calamur
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as an advertiser, will you be comfortable advertising your products on a platform where child sex abuse content is not curtailed? https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@adhutchinson
Andrew Hutchinson
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Important notes via @stokel - despite Musk and his supporters' various claims, he hasn't actually done anything much, as yet, on free speech, addressing CSAM, etc. https://www.dailydot.com/...