Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, said Thursday that he would agree.general amnestyTo suspended accounts starting from next which week online safety Experts expect that A rise in Harassment, hate speech and misinformation.
Billionair announcement He came after he asked in reconnaissance posted to his schedule vote on restore for Accounts that didn’t “break the law” or participate in Awful spam.” Yes vote was 72%.
“The people he Said. Amnesties begins next week. “Fox Boboli, Fox Day,” Musk tweeted. using Latin phrase meaning “sound”. of The people, the sound of Machine.”
Musk used the same Latin phrase after posting a similar poll last The weekend before recalculation of former President Donald Trump, who was blocked by Twitter for Encouraging Rebellion January 6, 2021, Capitol. Trump said he wouldn’t go back to Twitter but didn’t delete his account.
Such as online Polls are not scientific and can easily be influenced by bots.
In a month since Musk took over Twitter, the groups that monitor the platform for Racist, anti-Semitic and other toxic rhetoric says it was on The rise on The de facto world public Field. This included an increase in racial abuse of world Cup of football players That Twitter fails to act on.
Height in Harmful content he is in Much of it is due to post-muscle disorder decision to put off half The company’s workforce of 7,500 people, fire Senior executives, and then the establishment of a series of Alarms that prompted hundreds more to resign.
Also, it was an indescribable number of contractors responsible for content moderation. Among the resigned over Shortage of Faith in Musk’s desire to prevent Twitter from degenerating into chaos of The uncontrolled rhetoric was from Twitter head of Confidence and Safety, Yoel Roth.
Big advertisers have it also abandoned Platform.
On October 28, the day after his took take control, Musk tweeted that no suspended accounts would be reinstated until Twitter forms an account.content moderation council with Diverse perspectives that would consider the issues.
On Tuesday, he said he’s backing off on This promise because he agreed to insist of “big coalition of Politician-social activist groups who later “breaking the deal” by urging advertisers to at least temporarily stop giving Twitter business.
The day before, Twitter reinstated the personal account of Far-right MP Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has been banned in January for Violating the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policies.
Meanwhile, Musk has become increasingly friendly on Twitter with Right-wing characters. Ahead of US midterm elections this month, he urged “independent-minded people” people to me vote republican.
According to a report issued by the European Union published Thursday on Twitter took longer to review hated content And the removed less of Here it is year comparison with 2021.
The report was based on Data collected over Spring — before Musk acquired Twitter — as part of that of Annual assessment of online Platform compliance with block symbol of Procedure on misinformation. He. She found rated by Twitter just over half of Notifications you have received of unlawful hate speech within 24 hours, and down from 82% in 2021.
