Who knew, it turns running a platform full of hate isn’t appealing to advertisers.
I also noticed Community Notes have become far more interested in nitpicking whatever vaguely leftist post they can find while letting blatant conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda fly by unchecked.
A for effort.
They had a trust and safety team to do this but dumbfuck laid them off.
most appeared to have moved from Accenture, a firm that provides content moderation contractors to internet companies
Bruh, Accenture is a consulting company, they provide everything contractors.
Bruh, do you really think the author doesn’t know who one of the largest IT agencies in the world is? Could it be, rather, that they were dumbing it down for the audience, since it’s, you know, not an article about Accenture, and ended up with some slightly odd phrasing as a consequence?
I keep hearing about toxicity on X, then not seeing it. I’m starting to doubt this premise is true.
Can’t decide if this response is Absence of Evidence or Black Swan fallacy. Either way, just because you haven’t experienced something, doesn’t mean its false.
Haven’t been on it since Elon purchased the company. I do know that Twitter by virtue of being powered by who you follow can have a vastly different feel to different people.
If you start getting into political stuff, even in the before times, it could get pretty nasty. I can only imagine that’s worse now.
I observed racism and toxicity on X. Reported a couple pretty bad posts (eg a user wishing for drowning of immigrants), but the platform decided they’re okay based their own moderation rules.
