The San Francisco-based company formerly known as Twitter announced on Friday that it will build a “trust and safety center” in Austin, Texas.
Oh, you mean like the people you fired the week you took over, Musk? Those people? Man fucked around and found out and is using the lesson learned.
An intelligent person wouldn’t have needed the lesson, though.
It’s not a lesson learned. X will be legally liable for damages. They are setting up a team of moderators to mitigate that liability and show lawmakers they can regulate themselves so they can head off potential regulations.
Much like his PR visit to Concentration camps Musk is doing it to escape consequences.
Why do you think Twitter already had those moderation teams in place?
Trust and Safety was a key reason major brands were comfortable advertising on Twitter.
The financial consequences weren’t from getting sued, but Pfizer won’t run ads after they let “Pfizer” go viral for saying insulin is free and started placing their ads alongside Nazi content.
I do not think that Twitter/X under Musk has them because he laid them off when he first took control of the company.
Job requirements:
- at least two years of content moderation in twitter
Read as: Taylor Swift has enough money to defend herself by threatening Musk legally.
The law is a weapon wielded by the rich, and brandishing it can convince other rulers to yield. Anyone else it helps is an unintended side effect.
100? That ought to do it /s
500 million tweets per day in 2013 So, yeah, that’s only 10,000 per minute per moderator for an 8 hour shift. I’ve doomscrolled pretty hard, but not that hard.
Not in this economy. Everybody else in this sector is already downsizing. I expect them to announce a round of layoffs soon.
/s Only partially though. Sad times.
What’s the betting these 100 will be tasked with election misinformation too. And by misinformation, I mean anti-Trump truth.
who could have possibly seen this happening
you? And you? And you and your dog? Seems everyone except for one special k brained billionaire.
Twitter always does this shit when it comes to politics they don’t like. They outsourced content moderation to the same time zone as Tel Aviv and St. Petersburg are in about 2 years ago. I reported an abusive, harassing argument after defending the victim and I’m the one who caught the ban, 2am local time. Appeals got ignored for months. I hope they lose everything.
Billionaires look out for each other.
I’m not sure it’s that as much as it’s Swift’s potential ability to sway public opinion and/or hire an army of lawyers to really bog down X.
It sucks that it’s happening to her (or anyone for that matter), but her status may be great enough for the law makers to move on this. Also, he status is definitely great enough to force Musk to do SOMETHING, at least superficially to appear as though X isn’t just a more polished 4Chan.
I am reminded of this classic
Free speech! Until users start posting child/celebrity porn or start dropping slurs or […]
