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The San Francisco-based company formerly known as Twitter announced on Friday that it will build a “trust and safety center” in Austin, Texas.

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[–] DarkMessiah@lemmy.world 141 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh, you mean like the people you fired the week you took over, Musk? Those people? Man fucked around and found out and is using the lesson learned.

An intelligent person wouldn’t have needed the lesson, though.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s not a lesson learned. X will be legally liable for damages. They are setting up a team of moderators to mitigate that liability and show lawmakers they can regulate themselves so they can head off potential regulations.

Much like his PR visit to Concentration camps Musk is doing it to escape consequences.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why do you think Twitter already had those moderation teams in place?

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 months ago

Trust and Safety was a key reason major brands were comfortable advertising on Twitter.

The financial consequences weren’t from getting sued, but Pfizer won’t run ads after they let “Pfizer” go viral for saying insulin is free and started placing their ads alongside Nazi content.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I do not think that Twitter/X under Musk has them because he laid them off when he first took control of the company.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Job requirements:

  • at least two years of content moderation in twitter
[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 77 points 7 months ago

Read as: Taylor Swift has enough money to defend herself by threatening Musk legally.

The law is a weapon wielded by the rich, and brandishing it can convince other rulers to yield. Anyone else it helps is an unintended side effect.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

100? That ought to do it /s

[–] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

500 million tweets per day in 2013 So, yeah, that's only 10,000 per minute per moderator for an 8 hour shift. I've doomscrolled pretty hard, but not that hard.

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Not in this economy. Everybody else in this sector is already downsizing. I expect them to announce a round of layoffs soon.

/s Only partially though. Sad times.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

What’s the betting these 100 will be tasked with election misinformation too. And by misinformation, I mean anti-Trump truth.

[–] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago

who could have possibly seen this happening

you? And you? And you and your dog? Seems everyone except for one special k brained billionaire.

[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Twitter always does this shit when it comes to politics they don't like. They outsourced content moderation to the same time zone as Tel Aviv and St. Petersburg are in about 2 years ago. I reported an abusive, harassing argument after defending the victim and I'm the one who caught the ban, 2am local time. Appeals got ignored for months. I hope they lose everything.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Billionaires look out for each other.

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

I’m not sure it’s that as much as it’s Swift’s potential ability to sway public opinion and/or hire an army of lawyers to really bog down X.

It sucks that it’s happening to her (or anyone for that matter), but her status may be great enough for the law makers to move on this. Also, he status is definitely great enough to force Musk to do SOMETHING, at least superficially to appear as though X isn’t just a more polished 4Chan.

[–] nectar@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I am reminded of this classic

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

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