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"Twitter on Monday night abruptly dissolved its Trust and Safety Council...."
The Washington Post reports, characterizing the move as "the latest sign that Elon Musk is unraveling years of work and institutions created to make the social network safer and more civil."
Twitter first formed the Trust and Safety Council in 2016, as social networks were coming under greater scrutiny for their role in amplifying hate, terrorism, child exploitation and other problematic content online. The council convened a wide range of civil society groups, think tanks — and even some of Silicon Valley’s biggest critics....
Last week, three members of the Trust and Safety Council resigned, warning that the “safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.” Musk responded to replies to their tweet announcing their resignation, writing, “It’s a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years!” ....
Midway through the article, the topic switches to something that is in the url for this article — "musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/":
Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, and his family were forced from their home after Elon Musk’s tweets misrepresented Roth’s academic writing about sexual activity and children. The online mob also sent threats to people Roth had replied to on Twitter, forcing some of Roth’s family and friends to delete their Twitter accounts, according to a person familiar with Roth’s situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to concerns about Roth’s safety.
Musk’s followers also directed harassment at professors who reviewed the dissertation that Roth wrote in 2016.....
At this point, many readers will be puzzling about what's in the dissertation. It's "about sexual activity and children," and Musk supposedly "misrepresented" it, so give us the true, unmisrepresented content of the dissertation. Of course, it's bad if any "mob" threatened anyone here, but what was it that stoked the anger?
Musk tweets about Roth recalled the QAnon conspiracy movement, which claims incorrectly that Democratic Party leaders direct a child sex abuse network. “Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis,” Musk tweeted Saturday, attaching a screenshot of Roth’s dissertation.
Does Musk sound like QAnon there?! There's a huge difference between directing a child sex abuse network and arguing in favor of children's freedom to go to websites! To equate the two is to fail to grasp freedom of speech.
Finally, there's some detail about what's in the dissertation:
In the text, Roth suggested that services like the gay dating app Grindr should adopt safety strategies to accommodate teenagers using their platforms, rather than drive them out entirely....
That is disturbing, and it does justify questioning whether Roth was the best person to trust to take action on child exploitation. Is it true that the Trust and Safety Council didn't do enough, that it fell so short that it made sense for Musk to assert "It's a crime"? If so, what's wrong — and what's "abrupt" — about the dissolution of the Trust and Safety Council?
And where did WaPo support its assertion that "Elon Musk is unraveling years of work and institutions created to make the social network safer and more civil"? If the Council "refused to take action on child exploitation for years" — Musk's words — then it was not making Twitter "safer and more civil."
Whose safety?
The Washington Post reports, characterizing the move as "the latest sign that Elon Musk is unraveling years of work and institutions created to make the social network safer and more civil."
Twitter first formed the Trust and Safety Council in 2016, as social networks were coming under greater scrutiny for their role in amplifying hate, terrorism, child exploitation and other problematic content online. The council convened a wide range of civil society groups, think tanks — and even some of Silicon Valley’s biggest critics....
Last week, three members of the Trust and Safety Council resigned, warning that the “safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.” Musk responded to replies to their tweet announcing their resignation, writing, “It’s a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years!” ....
Midway through the article, the topic switches to something that is in the url for this article — "musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/":
Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, and his family were forced from their home after Elon Musk’s tweets misrepresented Roth’s academic writing about sexual activity and children. The online mob also sent threats to people Roth had replied to on Twitter, forcing some of Roth’s family and friends to delete their Twitter accounts, according to a person familiar with Roth’s situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to concerns about Roth’s safety.
Musk’s followers also directed harassment at professors who reviewed the dissertation that Roth wrote in 2016.....
At this point, many readers will be puzzling about what's in the
Musk tweets about Roth recalled the QAnon conspiracy movement, which claims incorrectly that Democratic Party leaders direct a child sex abuse network. “Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis,” Musk tweeted Saturday, attaching a screenshot of Roth’s dissertation.
Does Musk sound like QAnon there?! There's a huge difference between directing a child sex abuse network and arguing in favor of children's freedom to go to websites! To equate the two is to fail to grasp freedom of speech.
Finally, there's some detail about what's in the dissertation:
In the text, Roth suggested that services like the gay dating app Grindr should adopt safety strategies to accommodate teenagers using their platforms, rather than drive them out entirely....
That is disturbing, and it does justify questioning whether Roth was the best person to trust to take action on child exploitation. Is it true that the Trust and Safety Council didn't do enough, that it fell so short that it made sense for Musk to assert "It's a crime"? If so, what's wrong — and what's "abrupt" — about the dissolution of the Trust and Safety Council?
And where did WaPo support its assertion that "Elon Musk is unraveling years of work and institutions created to make the social network safer and more civil"? If the Council "refused to take action on child exploitation for years" — Musk's words — then it was not making Twitter "safer and more civil."
Whose safety?
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