Elon Musk assured that he will give “amnesty” to the accounts of Chirping suspended, which online safety experts frown on, predicting it “will spur an increase in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.”
The new owner of Twitter announced it this Thursday after doing a survey on his account of that social network, on the reinstatement of users who “didn’t break the law or deal with blatant spam”. The yes was just over 72%.
“People have spoken. The amnesty starts next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei” Musk tweeted using a Latin phrase meaning ‘the voice of the people is the voice of God’.
Musk used the same phrase after posting a similar poll last weekend before resetting the former US president’s account. Donald Trumpwhich Twitter had shut down for encouraging a Capitol uprising on January 6, 2021. Trump has said he will not return to Twitter, but has not deleted his account.
Since Musk took over Twitter a month ago, groups monitoring the platform for racism, anti-Semitism and other toxic language they say it has increased.
The rise in harmful content is largely due to the turmoil following Musk’s decision to fire half of the company’s 7,500 workers, as well as top executives, before issuing a series of ultimatums that prompted the resignations of hundreds more. .
An unknown number of outside workers responsible for moderating content were also fired.
Among those who resigned over a lack of faith in Musk’s willingness to stop Twitter from becoming a wild-talking mess is Twitter’s head of trust and security, Yoel Roth. Even the big advertisers have left the platform.
On Oct. 28, the day after he took control, Musk tweeted that suspended accounts would not be reinstated until Twitter formed a “Content Moderation Advice” made up of people with different points of view who would consider cases.
He said on Tuesday that he gave up on that promise because he accepted it at the insistence of “a broad coalition of political and social activist groups” who later “broke the deal” by urging advertisers to stop giving Twitter i their business, at least temporarily.
The day before, Twitter reactivated the personal account of the US federal representative Marjorie Taylorwhich was taken down in January for violating the platform’s COVID misinformation rules.
According to the AP agency, Musk has become increasingly friendly on Twitter with right-wing personalities.
Ahead of this month’s US midterm elections, he urged “independent” people to vote Republican.
An available hacker
Among the battery of measures Musk plans to take on Twitter are staff shedding, workday marathon, return to 100% face-to-face, encrypted voice and video calls, postponement of payment verification service relaunch, and an improvement in social network search engine.
Now he has once again summoned a famous hacker named George Hotzfamous for jailbreaking (the process of removing some of the limitations imposed by a device) on an iPhone with iOS system and reverse engineering processes on Playstation 3.
Hotz, known as Geohot, is the founder of Comma.ai, a company that develops autopilot systems for cars. In 2015 Musk tried to sign him for Tesla, but they were unsuccessful since, according to the hacker, Elon changed the terms of the contract several times.
As George Hotz explains on his Twitter profile, he will work for a season at the microblogging company. Your task will be to fix your search function, as well as remove the message that prevents the user from browsing the service on the web without logging in. For 12 weeks you will immerse yourself in the platform to improve the service.
With information from agencies
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Source: Clarin
Linda Price is a tech expert at News Rebeat. With a deep understanding of the latest developments in the world of technology and a passion for innovation, Linda provides insightful and informative coverage of the cutting-edge advancements shaping our world.