Twitter's ex-head of trust and safety reflects on Donald Trump publicly attacking him, the resulting abuse, fact-checking, Elon Musk, Twitter Files, and more
When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump's tweets for the first time. Mastodon: @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz , @yoyoel@macaw.social , and @Noup...
How Meta and YouTube, battered by content moderation wars, are following X in retreating from policing political misinformation, raising US 2024 election fears
Following Elon Musk's lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation — Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential ele...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
A look at the vast and mostly hidden “tasker” underclass, including subject-matter experts, hired by companies like Scale AI to annotate data for AI training
As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere. Bluesky: @sarahjeong.bsky.social , @knguyen.bsky.social , and @yoyoel.com Mastodon: @stshank@mstdn....
Elon Musk tweets an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation and baselessly suggests the former Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization
Elon Musk's “Twitter Files,” which supposedly reveal … Joseph Menn / Washington Post : Elon Musk uses QAnon tactic in criticizing former Twitter safety chief Livemint : Twitter character limit to incr...
Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”
do Weiss and Taibbi have access to users' DMs? It would be good to get clear explanation about this screen and yes/no answer to this straightforward question. https://twitter.com/... Bari Weiss / @bar...
Twitter says it mistakenly suspended around a dozen accounts posting about Russian military movements near the Ukrainian border, and reinstates some accounts
including how to delete your account Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Twitter shares tips for users in conflict zones amid Ukraine crisis Jose Montes de Oca / Newslit Daily : Twitter accounts shar...
Concerns over China's online influence campaigns overseas, while valid, are often overblown as there is little evidence to show campaigns are actually working
On April 27, 2021, Tristan Harris, a tech critic and former Google employee, warned at a U.S. Senate hearing that we are facing … Tweets: @citizenlab and @yoyoel Tweets: @citizenlab : According to @lo...
With a tweet, Trump joins his campaign and Fox News in targeting Twitter employee Yoel Roth, after Dorsey asked to keep employees out of it
this employee may as well just be a meme. Harassment is just another tactic that Trump & his followers deploy as part of their usual playbook in the political disinformation wars. It's dehumanizing ht...
After Twitter labeled Trump's tweets, his campaign and Fox News target Twitter's Site Integrity lead Yoel Roth; Twitter says Roth works on manipulation and bots
“It's unfortunate to see individual employees targeted for company decisions — Right-wing media and Trump supporters …