Ben O'Bright

Trust and Safety wonk at some big tech company. Gamer. Italian Food Addict. 1/2 of Rain Parade.

Tweets are my own

[Ben O'Bright @Ben_OBright]

Well this hit home. Level 20 is where it starts to get hard.

[techdirt @techdirt]

Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve https://t.co/1WXUvVszeo

[Mackenzie Gray @Gray_Mackenzie]

Ryan Reynolds apparently wants to buy the Sens

https://t.co/egwXeGMwNE via @people

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

no one is ever satisfied with content moderation and tend to develop conspiracy theories about shadowy forces behind it; the great thing about the musk acquisition is now people have a single point of blame with a recognizable face for literally anything that goes wrong now

[Ben O'Bright @Ben_OBright]

@danprimack @sarafischer Why. Just why.

[Scott Galloway @profgalloway]

Thx for having me on @jaketapper

[Ben O'Bright @Ben_OBright]

@reckless I hope someone is counting the number of random moderation pleas Elon has said he would "look into" over the last 48 hours.

[Ben O'Bright @Ben_OBright]

Next up: Twitter Trust and Safety teams were told to perform live reenactments of the last 60 days of their content moderation decisions in front of Elon and several Boring Company product managers.

[Casey Newton @CaseyNewton]

Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself.

Then they were told wait, no, actually, please shred all that code you just printed out.

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So much for that council!

[Ben O'Bright @Ben_OBright]

The number of content decisions that happen at any tech company in a given day will quickly overwhelm this council. Unless the bar for "major" is set so high that you need... Uh... Wide content policies and fully staffed trust and safety teams to deal with the volume.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.

No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

[nilay patel @reckless]

Sorry bro https://t.co/lIaCYPplH6

[Ben O'Bright @Ben_OBright]

I know it's really sad how high gas prices are right now, but this feels a little on the nose. #ireland

[Ben O'Bright @Ben_OBright]

@RobOHanrahan So they don't need to think about, you know, who can actually fix... everything?

[Ben O'Bright @Ben_OBright]

@RichardEGrant I knew I spotted you on Grafton St today. Nice umbrella you got!

[Ben O'Bright @Ben_OBright]

#StrongAndStable yet again

[brianna @briannaamorris8]

someone ordered a half milk half guinness off me earlier and if i had to see it then so do all of u

[Dream of ASOIAF @DreamofASOIAF]

Westeros, but in google maps format

[Woodrow Oates Montague @sadvalueinvestr]

Is this ESG? $PM

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

The most British headline of all-time.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

1982: “I bet there will be flying cars in the future.”

2022:

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

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