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
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.
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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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.
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.