Unpacking Wild Week After Elon Musk Acquired Twitter For $44 Billion

Even if you didn’t see any of these posts, it was definitely seen by someone you were following. (And some even admitted to searching for hateful content, suspecting it was there, and pointing it out.)

Yoel RossHead of Safety and Integrity at Twitter, Tweeted on October 29“Our rules prohibit hateful behavior, including targeting people with inhumane content or slurs. It doesn’t mean there’s a list, context matters.For example, our policy is written to protect replayed speech.”

He attributed the spike in slurs and other hate speech to coordinated trolling, tweeting that more than 50,000 of the offensive posts came from just 300 accounts. “Nearly all of these accounts are not real,” says Ross I have written“We have taken steps to ban users involved in this trolling campaign and will continue to work to address this issue in order to keep Twitter safe and welcoming for everyone.” We will continue.”

Musk too murmured“Twitter will form a content moderation council with broad and diverse perspectives. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will be made before that council convenes.” Added“For clarity, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policy.”