Twitter fired roughly half of its 7,500-strong workforce, only days before next week’s midterm elections in the United States, when a spike in fake content is expected across social media. READ:
Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has pledged the platform will not devolve into a “free-for-all hellscape,” but experts warn that mass layoffs on Friday may deeply impair the social network’s ability to curb misinformation.
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. File photo shows a phone screen displaying a photo of Elon Musk with the Twitter logo shown in the background in Washington, DC. Twitter said it will start laying off employees on November 4, 2022, as the new billionaire owner moves quickly after his big takeover to make the messaging platform financially sound. AFP
“Twitter was already a hellscape before Musk took over, and his actions… will only make it worse,” said Gonzalez. One study by Montclair State University found that Musk’s purchase had “created the perception by extremist users that content restrictions would be alleviated.” But Musk rejected that assessment, tweeting that “we have actually seen hateful speech at times this week decline *below* our prior norms,” though he offered up no data to back up this assertion.
Musk, a self-professed free-speech absolutist, had promised to reduce Twitter’s content restrictions, and since the acquisition has announced plans to create a “content moderation council” that will review company policies.
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