Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart
It was the first day of April 2022, and I was sitting in a law firm’s midtown Manhattan conference room at a meeting of Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent body the … Read More
Tag: content moderation
The Twitter Files Revealed One Thing: Elon Musk Is Trapped
Moderating social media platforms is hard. Just ask the former Twitter employees whose decision to block a 2020 New York Post story about Joe Biden’s son Hunter was picked over yesterday in tweets from … Read More
Here’s Proof Hate Speech Is More Viral on Elon Musk’s Twitter
Elon Musk reactivated Donald Trump’s Twitter account last weekend, reversing a ban imposed in January 2021 after his posts were deemed to have incited violence at the US Capitol. Trump has not … Read More
Inside Meta’s Oversight Board: 2 Years of Pushing Limits
Ultimately, the issue came up in a March 2022 meeting with Clegg, who seemed taken aback by the board members’ frustration. He promised to break the logjam, and a few … Read More
Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team
As more and more problems with AI have surfaced, including biases around race, gender, and age, many tech companies have installed “ethical AI” teams ostensibly dedicated to identifying and mitigating … Read More
Shonda Rhimes says ‘bye’ to Twitter after Musk takeover
Shonda Rhimes isn’t impressed with Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter, and she isn’t stick around. Best known for creating and writing Grey’s Anatomy, the TV mogul shared what might be … Read More
The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect
Anyone could have seen the blow coming. What the world didn’t expect was quite how much Alex Jones would have to pay for weaponizing disinformation and piling misery onto the … Read More
Twitter’s Case in India Could Have Massive Ripple Effects
In June, Twitter received an ultimatum from the Indian government to remove some 39 accounts and content from its platform. Sources familiar with the order say it outlined that if … Read More
Texas Cites Clarence Thomas to Defend Its Social Media Law
Florida’s law remains blocked, and the state is keenly interested in the outcome of the Texas battle. Florida on Wednesday filed a Supreme Court brief supporting Texas, and the Florida … Read More
A ‘Radical’ Ruling Lets Texas Ban Social Media Moderation
A federal appeals court has reinstated a Texas state law that bans “censorship” on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, allowing Texas to enforce the law while litigation … Read More