Elon Musk's Twitter Bets on Automation to Control Hate Speech & Moderate Content

December 05, 2022 By Raulf Hernes

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According to a Reuters story, Elon Musk's Twitter is now relying on automation to censor content rather than performing manual checks and preferring distribution limits to outright banning of particular tweets. In spite of any effects on those terms, Twitter Vice President of Trust and Safety Product Ella Irwin asserts that the site is more aggressively filtering offensive hashtags and search results in areas like child exploitation. Elon Musk's Twitter account is shown in this illustrative photo, which was taken in Los Angeles on May 13, 2022, with the Twitter logo in the background. Elon Musk delivered conflicting signals on his planned acquisition of Twitter on Friday, pushing down the price of the microblogging service amid doubts over whether the deal will go through. In an early morning tweet, Musk stated that there were concerns with the social media company's estimations of the number of fraudulent accounts or "bots," and that the $44 billion acquisition was "temporarily on hold." That caused Twitter's shares to drop by 25%. Elon Musk flatly declines the former T-Mobile CEO's offer to lead Twitter

Elon Musk flatly declines the former T-Mobile CEO's offer to lead Twitter

This information was made public after Musk declared an amnesty for users of suspended accounts who allegedly broke corporate policies on hate speech and information during the previous administration. Researchers also asserted that since Musk seized control of the Bluebird app, hate speech has increased. The tech CEO, though, claimed that this was "utterly incorrect." Some of Twitter's advertisers, including Tesla's rival GM, decided to stop using the network for advertising as a result of Musk's absolutist attitude toward free speech. Even further, the app is unsafe under Musk's direction, according to Twitter's former head of safety and security. But during his conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, Elon Musk promised that there would be a "reinforcement of content regulation and protection of freedom of speech." Irwin stated that Musk instructed the team to focus less on how their choices would affect user growth or revenue and instead stress that safety was the company's first priority. Irwin's safety strategy, according to Reuters, partly reflects an expansion of improvements anticipated since last year regarding Twitter's handling of hate speech and other policy infractions.

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