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   Miguel Afonso Caetano (remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:41:48 JST Miguel Afonso Caetano

   #SocialMedia #Twitter #Musk #ContentModeration #HateSpeech #Advertising: "Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition, and the series of content policy changes that ensued, has led to a dramatic spike in hateful, violent and inaccurate posts on the platform, according to researchers. That's now the top challenge for Twitter's new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino, who has to address advertisers’ concerns about the trend in order to boost revenue and pay back the company's debts.

   Musk and Yaccarino have touted updates to the site’s policies, such as letting advertisers prevent their posts from showing up next to certain kinds of content. Still, advertising sales are down by half since Musk took control of the company in October, he said this week. That’s in part because businesses don’t believe there has been significant progress in resolving the problem."

   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-19/twitter-s-surge-in-harmful-content-a-barrier-to-advertiser-return#xj4y7vzkg

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:41:44 JST Sexy Moon

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     @remixtures @jeff anecdotally, "bad" content levels are waaaaay lower right now than twitter at any point I can remember from 2016 to earlier. I am not sure it is even possible to make a large platform of user generated content where a large percentage of people aren't seeing stuff they don't like. if you can really control the platform to that extent that's actually pretty bad for our democracy to let information have such a big and powerful choke point.
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     Miguel Afonso Caetano (remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:41:46 JST Miguel Afonso Caetano

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     @jeff LoL ->

     "More than 30% of U.S. adults that used Twitter between March and May reported seeing content they consider bad for the world, according to a survey conducted by the USC Marshall Neely Social Media Index. That percentage was higher than rivals Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. Many users reported seeing tweets that condoned or glorified violence towards marginalized groups or explicit videos easily accessible to underage children.

     Earlier this year, researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory found that Twitter failed to take down dozens of images of child sex abuse. The team identified 128 Twitter accounts selling child sex abuse material and 43 instances of known CSAM. “It is very surprising for any known CSAM to publicly appear on major social media platforms,” said lead author and chief technologist David Thiel. Twitter responded to the issue after being contacted by researchers. This year Twitter removed 525% more accounts related to child sexual exploitation content than a year ago, according to the company."

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     autism :verified: (jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:41:47 JST autism :verified:

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     @remixtures this is one hell of a clown show article from bloomberg. neolibs still can accept they lost jfc.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:45:53 JST Sexy Moon

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     @mia @jeff @remixtures it is actually really concerning the extent and the circumstances under which our entire media apparatus flipped from considering free access to information to be critical to the democratic process to just being terrified of misinformation. I am cynical of this. it directly coincided with wikileaks releasing true information that hurt specific powerful people.
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     mia (mia@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:45:54 JST mia

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     @Moon @remixtures @jeff
     
     They real concerned till you bring up Hunter's laptop.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 05:52:42 JST Sexy Moon

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     @mia @jeff @remixtures stuff like measuring csam I am highly skeptical of because they are basically driven by donation and donations are driven by grievances. these guys probably had one or two people doing naive searches for csam on twitter a couple years ago but now they're flush with money by donors that NEED them to find as much as possible. Maybe there really is more but realistically this is not a neutral process by neutral observers.