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FluTrackers withdraws from Twitter - September 16, 2020 - Updated Nov. 2024

Kai Kupferschmidt

@kakape
Interesting! So notifications from verified accounts has moved to the left essentially making it the default. That’s in keeping with what
@elonmusk
said today about anything from non-verified accounts essentially becoming a kind of spam folder…

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Kai Kupferschmidt

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Of course that’s just another way of upping the pressure on people to cough up money for being “verified” (even though verified doesn’t actually mean verified…)
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No and not planning to



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We are not going to pay either. As a charity we can not afford to pay for priority in search functions/engines. Oh well....
 
Twitter’s content moderation head quits as departures alarm the FTC

Updated November 10, 2022 at 7:19 p.m. EST|Published November 10, 2022 at 11:05 a.m. EST

By Joseph Menn, Cat Zakrzewski, Faiz Siddiqui, Nitasha Tiku and Drew Harwell

SAN FRANCISCO — Several top executives resigned from Twitter on Thursday, some of whom cited fears over the risks from Elon Musk’s leadership in a stunning exodus that prompted federal regulators to warn they might step in.

One of the most surprising was the company’s head of moderation and safety, Yoel Roth, who had become the public face of the company’s efforts to reassure users and advertisers that Twitter would not descend into a “free-for-all.” On Wednesday, he appeared on a Twitter Spaces public meeting to defend the company to advertisers alongside Musk.

Roth’s was one of a number of resignations including Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner, the company’s chief privacy officer and its chief compliance officer, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters. Several other members of the site’s privacy and security unit also had resigned and those remaining were trying to stop a wave of abuse in the company’s expanded paid service, Twitter Blue, according to those people.

The privacy departures prompted a rare warning from the Federal Trade Commission, which has emerged as the government’s top Silicon Valley watchdog. It marked the second time in two days that a federal official has expressed concern about the chaotic developments at the company, coming less than 24 hours after President Biden said Musk’s relationships with other countries deserved scrutiny.

The agency said that it was “tracking the developments at Twitter with deep concern” and that it was prepared to take action to ensure the company was complying with a settlement known as a consent order, which requires Twitter to comply with certain privacy and security requirements because of allegations of past data misuse. Three of the resignations Thursday were by members of a data governance committee established in the FTC deal, according to a former employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. ...

Fake accounts continued to gain steam on Thursday.

One tweet by a blue-check account posing as the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly gained 1,500 retweets and more than 10,000 likes and remained online after three hours Thursday afternoon. An Eli Lilly spokesperson told The Post on Thursday they “are in communication with Twitter to address the issue.”

Musk has said the company would suspend such accounts, but a number of fake accounts remained online for hours, receiving tens of thousands of likes and retweets. Early Thursday, in a response to someone mentioning that a fake Biden was talking about performing a sex act, Musk responded with two cry-laughing emoji. ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/10/twitter-security-resignations/
 
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Spot on@mcuban
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Mark Cuban
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The value of Twitter to me is the speed at which I can get and share information. Just like you use it. BUT, Twitter stands out because while it can be a rabbit hole at times, There is significant time savings because of the legacy blue check mark curation that twitter has done twitter.com/mcuban/status/…
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Donie O'Sullivan
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A fake verified CBC News account.


Donie O'Sullivan
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Oy, a fake DeSantis account with a blue tick.
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Shit like this all over the place
Donie O'Sullivan
@donie·8h
A fake Nintendo account with Mario giving thee finger A fake Donald Trump account. Even a fake @jesus account All getting blue ticks right now.

https://twitter.com/donie
 
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Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer

Meanwhile, Musk’s personal lawyer is telling people, ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.’

Updated Nov 10, 2022, 4:52 PM UTC
By ALEX HEATH / @alexeheath

Twitter’s privacy and security teams are in turmoil after Elon Musk’s changes to the service bypassed its standard data governance processes. Now, a company lawyer is encouraging employees to seek whistleblower protection “if you feel uncomfortable about anything you’re being asked to do.” ...

Former Twitter outside counsel Riana Pfefferkorn noted in a tweet that the company’s FTC consent order requires the company to do privacy reviews before making changes to the product. That same FTC consent order requires Twitter to submit a compliance notice signed by predetermined officers of the company to the FTC 14 days after a change in company control — which means Twitter owes the FTC a compliance notice today, 14 days after Musk took over. ...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning
 
As a bit of historical reference - I remember when FluTrackers joined twitter in January or February of 2009 twitter was a really wild place. All sorts of crazy stuff was going on. It was almost totally unmoderated. Our account got all manner of bashing, p orn, death threats, just everything you can imagine. In about mid-2009 the verification system was started. Over time the site became more serious. I don't know the future of twitter and for now our account is in the active status. It is demoralizing to post our updates when I know we are in the spam folder of the subscribed accounts. I do not think there are many real subscribed accounts yet but I think the stated purpose is to bascially turn twitter into a subscription site. So......
 
I don't understand how the verification system could have stopped hateful comments. There were still plenty of those on Twitter, coming from both anonymous and verified accounts. The block feature was free to use and I can see that helping to some extent. Some users limit visibility to trusted accounts, but that might cost money and you probably don't wanted limited visibility.
Verification will be necessary for some entities. I don't know that the system was any more secure before Musk. It seems some people are doing everything they can to damage the company due to political issues.
 
Nobody cared until the Musk purchase was in play.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/...s-next-child-pornography-accounts-2022-09-28/
Exclusive: Brands blast Twitter for ads next to child pornography accounts

By Sheila Dang

and Katie Paul
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda, Forbes and PBS Kids have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter because their promotions appeared alongside tweets soliciting child pornography, the companies told Reuters.

DIRECTV and Thoughtworks also told Reuters late on Wednesday they have paused their advertising on Twitter.

Brands ranging from Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), NBCUniversal (CMCSA.O) and Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) to a children's hospital were among more than 30 advertisers that appeared on the profile pages of Twitter accounts peddling links to the exploitative material, according to a Reuters review of accounts identified in new research about child sex abuse online from cybersecurity group Ghost Data...
 
The verification system started in 2009 did not stop the wild atmosphere at twitter but it was the beginning of some moderation efforts to cut down on the spam. Over a few years I noticed our account was getting maybe 1/10 of the original nasty stuff. At this time we are not getting any ridiculous spamming. I also notice a lot less scientific tweets. We are getting a fraction of the retweets on our content. It would appear a lot of science and medicine has left twitter or is in a wait and see mode. Hard to know. FluTrackers is not joining any other social media no matter what happens to twitter.
 
Many advertisers still using Twitter despite Musk’s chaos
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Constantine von Hoffman on November 16, 2022 at 1:45 pm | Reading time: 5 minutes

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter caused the biggest brands to pause their advertising on the social media platform. However, many smaller ones remain and are still glad to be there. Kaela Green, VP of paid social at Basis Technologies, says that’s because both the audience and the content protections are still there.
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“The reality of where it stands is there have been no changes to content moderation policies,” she says. “There have been no changes to brand safety, to the algorithms and tools that control and monitor, and make sure that the inventory maintains currency.”
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“The engagement rates that we’re seeing … have maintained pretty steady and in some cases it’s even increased and not necessarily in a negative way,” says Green. “The engagement is not due to some of the negativity or concern around the platform.”

The stability of audience size and engagement may be Twitter’s biggest strength right now. Another is that it occupies a unique place. Although some users talk about going to another platform — like Mastodon, neither that nor any other social media platform provides the immediacy and real-time response Twitter does.

“Sure, advertisers can pull away,” says Green, “but [they] are never going to want to if they’re still getting what they want out of the deal.”

However, even if all the advertisers returned today it wouldn’t fix the company’s core problem: It doesn’t make money. Twitter has turned a profit only twice in the last 10 years.

Musk has made that harder to do. Last April, when he agreed to buy the company, the market was hot. He paid $44 billion, twice its market value at a time when social media stocks were overvalued. Since the amount being spent on digital advertising has fallen off a cliff. If Twitter somehow brought in as much money as it did last year, it wouldn’t be nearly enough to service the debt Musk has saddled it with.

https://martech.org/many-advertisers...e-musks-chaos/
 
Apparently more turmoil.....

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A former Twitter executive who recently exited the company described Thursday’s employee exits as a “mass exodus.”

On Thursday evening following the exits, employees remaining at the company received an email alerting them that the company’s offices will be temporarily closed and badge access will be restricted through Monday, according to a copy of the email obtained by CNN from a current Twitter employee. Musk’s team similarly shuttered offices during the mass layoffs earlier this month out of a concern for safety and an apparent fear that exiting employees could attempt to sabotage the company on their way out.

Two Twitter employees told CNN ahead of the deadline on Thursday that they planned to reject the ultimatum, citing a toxic work environment they say the billionaire has introduced. Another Twitter employee told CNN Wednesday they were still weighing the decision, saying the email from Musk “felt like a punch in the gut because no matter how you felt about wanting to stay or wanting to go, you were forced to make a decision and feel like you’re up against the time clock to make the best decision for you and your family.”

more...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/tech/...ine/index.html

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Elon Musk

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How do you make a small fortune in social media?

Start out with a large one.
 
I was just tweeting and then saw this. The image attached to the tweet below is completely unacceptable by anyone in a senior leadership position at twitter.

Honestly....disgusting.


Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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And lead us not into temptation …

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sharon sanders said:
I was just tweeting and then saw this. The image attached to the tweet below is completely unacceptable by anyone in a senior leadership position at twitter.

Honestly....disgusting.


Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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And lead us not into temptation …

(edited out a s exual image of a woman)
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That disgusting tweet is still there. Added to all of the other incidents, I am beginning to wonder if Musk is ruining twitter on purpose. If he is, how can he afford the financial loss?...unless his other projects are going to take up the slack. Within the 1st week he was talking about twitter bankruptcy. Who benefits from that?

What is going on here???

Always follow the $.
 
‘Verified’ anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content

Platform’s paid verification system is being used to give sense of validity to accounts pushing health misinformation

Mon 21 Nov 2022 06.00 EST
Melody Schreiber

As the troubled social media platform Twitterrolled out a paid verification system and laid off thousands of content moderators, health misinformation accounts on the social network began pushing their messages to a wider audience than ever.

Under Elon Musk’s new direction for Twitter, several anti-vaccine accounts with tens of thousands of followers are now verified by paying $7.99 a month for Twitter Blue.

Social media sites have long struggled with misleading information and content moderation.

... But “now it looks like Twitter’s giving these accounts some legitimacy”, said Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist and dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

“It looks like now they’re going to move in the wrong direction, and actually help promote groups that are touting anti-vaccine, anti-science disinformation.”

Users have already tested the new system by impersonating leading brands, like the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, leading to sharp dips in the company’s stock price and a call to re-evaluate insulin prices.

... More than 300,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 because they didn’t get vaccinated, according to one analysis – more than six times the number of Americans who died by gun violence in 2020, for instance.

The vaccines to prevent severe disease and death from Covid-19 are extremely safe and effective, with millions of people around the world vaccinated. ...

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...ti-vax-health-misinformation?CMP=share_btn_tw
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Twitter reinstates Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account

BY REBECCA KLAR - 11/21/22 2:41 PM ET

Twitter reinstated the personal account for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Monday, reversing the ban put in place in January over Greene violating the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy. ...

https://thehill.com/policy/technolo...tes-marjorie-taylor-greenes-personal-account/
 
Too raunchy. Maybe we shouldn't even link to that one? Just report it and block him if it continues.
 
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