The mass exodus at Twitter is all over the business news today. I don't use Twitter, but curious from those who

[JohnSJ]

do, are there any moderators over their controlling hate and violent content?

The news indicated that the Twitter offices will be closed this weekend, so I suspect that they have a minimum crew keeping the platform operational, but are there any content controls still in place?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Apparently not. Elon Musk FIRED them all.

[Hortensis]

2. Yesterday when I googled tRump a tweet by Donald tRump Jr

was among those offered at the top of the screen which tickled my selse of humor, but when I followed it to check it out it had been removed by Twitter. I'm not used to checking these things and didn't see the specific reason.

But it's back when I look now.

"GOP House Opens Probe into Biden Family for Potential Tax Evasion, Money Laundering, Human Trafficking Violations.

I found this article on MxM News--a new app without media bias or censorship."

Googling the "new app" revealed it's his own app that "aggregates news."

[JohnSJ]

3. Thanks. So it seems there may be some control over there, perhaps implemented automatically through

software that was already in place

[Hortensis]

7. Yes, that might well be. Btw, the comments were

overwhelmingly unsupportive. AND when I tried to copy a sample ("The douche doesn't fall far from the bag" over Donnie's picture) to see if the copy function was working again (it didn't day before yesterday), it still didn't.

[JohnSJ]

9. Wow, then maybe just very basic functionality.

[Tomconroy]

4. I don't see much difference this morning. Supposedly

All the engineers left so it may not last too long.
Musk will have to do massive emergency hiring to save it.

[JohnSJ]

5. Thanks. New development would probably be off the table, but I guess they could put it into a

maintenance mode only for the time being.

I can't imagine advertisers being too comfortable being on that platform though

I agree it would have to be some type of emergency hiring to keep things going, but even with that, unless they are previous or current Twitter employees, it will take time for them to get up to speed.

Boy, it sure seems that he has made a mess out of things

[2Gingersnaps]

6. IMHO He bought it to tank it. He seems to have gone full Bond Villain.

Muskrat has an affectation to "citizen journalist." That is how he claims to view Twitter. Funny thing is, Legacy media are corporations too. Just like Elon, they don't like paying taxes, they don't like regulation, and they like for their employees to parrot their narrative. Think CNN or FOX. That kind of "citizen journalists."

Small wonder then that among his first acts was posting disinformation on the attack on Paul Pelosi, then taking it down without apology as facts came out. Yay, "citizen journalists."

His "free speech absolutism" means his. Corporations are people too, my friend.

[JohnSJ]

8. I don't think so. A 44 billion dollar write-off, is a lot of money, even for musk

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Only $20 Billion was Musk's

He financed the rest.

Less than 1/10th of his wealth.

They're going to file bankruptcy, so maybe this was more about tanking the company to off load its debt. Then he'll build it from the ground up again.

One thing, people are staying on Twitter right now, because they want to see what happens to Twitter.

Twitter doesn't run itself, like some people have been saying. You need a large team of good people to keep things running. A site that widely used probably has analytics that are monitored 24/7 to make sure functionality is still working.

[JohnSJ]

19. Still a lot of money, even for someone whose net worth is something like 220 billion. It also has impact

on his other holdings like Tesla, which has been hit since his "shooting from the hip" comments

They lose confidence in him

[yardwork]

13. Somebody's paying him to tank it.

Authoritarians need to get rid of twitter. It's leveling the playing field and allowing too much real information to be exchanged.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Musk is tanking twitter right after the Republicans' disappointing elections.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Utter nonsense. As if the richest man needs to be paid to lose $12 billion. So much wrong w yourpost

1) Authoritarians don't want to get rid of Twitter. They want to use Twitter, warp Twitter.

2) Their beef is not "too much info". Their beef is that their misinformation keeps getting blocked.

3) Musk started taking over Twitter in April. The results of the November election were not known in April.

4) Musk's goals were stated long ago and have nothing to do with election results.

5) Musk was sinking Twitter (remember his grand entrance carrying the sink? Guess not) before the election.

[yardwork]

25. Such respectful communication always makes me eager to engage!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. I took time to analyze & write 5 precise points, respect enough. But no prob, blow it off :)

No worries if you don't want to address 5 precise points.

"Nonsense" of course refers to the content of the post, not the poster.

[yardwork]

10. Yesterday I saw a horrific, fake "abortion" image and reported it.

The thread wasn't about abortion. Some troll put an egregious "at least he's not killing babies" post with a truly horrible image that was NOT an abortion or anything close. In the past that would not have lasted long enough for me to see it hours later.

[JohnSJ]

11. Do you know if it eventually got blocked?

[yardwork]

14. I'll see if I can remember where I saw it and check, but it will take a while.

[JohnSJ]

16. Just curious, please don't go out of your way on that

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. I'm curious what the image was.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. I'm not. Definitely NOT curious about that image, the way it was described. . . . nt

[yardwork]

26. If you like, google the anti-abortion propaganda that's been around for decades.

I'm sure it's not a new image.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

29. I'm familiar with most of them; I was just curious which one it was.

[Emrys]

12. There's some sort of system still in place

because I've seen some Twitter chat about reporting tweets in recent hours. Some of it will be automated, but there may still be a skeleton human presence.

Moderation's always been very hit or miss on Twitter anyway.

The site's unlikely to just suddenly disappear despite the layoffs and lockout as the hosting is a separate function maintained elsewhere, so as long as those bills get paid, it'll stay up barring disasters, but some features are reportedly getting even crankier than usual or don't work at all (none crucial to my use of it so far), and there will come a crunch at some point.

It's probably wide open for a DDOS or other attack, though.

[JohnSJ]

15. +++

[womanofthehills]

18. Looks exactly the same to me

Except Elon has become a Twitter jokester

Link to tweet

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Link to tweet

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Link to tweet

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[targetpractice]

20. Twitter's moderation system is in tatters

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitters-moderation-system-is-in-tatters

[JohnSJ]

21. Thanks. Wow, what a fiasco

[HipChick]

28. More important than moderation, Twitter is leaving their infrastructure exposed..

I suspect it's just a matter of time, before there is a massive data breach or worst....

I'd remove all account information if you are still accessing that platform...