New Twitter owner Elon Musk is further reducing the number of workers who battle misinformation on the social media platform, with moderators who work on contract for the company learning over the weekend that they were out of a job...
Ads for more than three dozen brands including major corporations appeared on the Twitter pages of white nationalist accounts in recent days after Twitter owner Elon Musk restored hordes of banned users to the social media platform.Promoted tweets from Amazon, Snap, Uber and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, among others, appeared inadvertently on the pages of at least two white nationalists, {names removed by me}, both of whom said their accounts had been banned but were restored recently after Musk took control of Twitter in late October.In a vast cost-cutting campaign, Musk fired hundreds of Twitter of employees, including entire teams devoted to content moderation of the site, including ensuring ads not appear on content brands would find objectionable...
Hmmm...
On second thought, perhaps I should have titled this post 'Revenue? We Don't Need No Stinking Revenue!'
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Rayne, one of the moderators, and an occasional poster, over at Emptywheel has a very insightful longform version of the story up...Here.
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