This is such a thoughtful testimony from Yoel Roth about the work of the trust and safety team at Twitter over the last few years and all the challenges of the work: https://t.co/j0wC7v3i9g
@george_berry Also, I have a question. Given this binary, that you can't be one without the other, what's up with Congress becoming cynical critics instead of people in the arena? Who's going to make the messy decisions if social approbation flows to cynics alone?
@george_berry "You can’t be a cynical critic if you are doing stuff and facing the actual tradeoffs that reality presents you with"
As a person in the arena, this hit home so hard.
@luckiesharms I fell down a few times and we left early. This was xmas time at Rockefeller Center so it was pretty easy to redirect his attention to the nearby lego store.
Two useful new papers on politics & Twitter:
😈Political discussions are especially hostile because they draw in status-hungry individuals who like to offend. These people act the same way offline
🤷Most Americans on Twitter are uninterested in politics & have very centrist feeds
I generally respect @techvsterrorism's work. But its new recommendations for infrastructure providers to block online content are troubling.
https://t.co/U5Fmlo9yA2 1/