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Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by phpisthebest on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @07:20PM (#34155820)
>You can't just say something is false if you don't like it.

No I trust experts in the field who by and large say CSAM is WAY WAY WAY down on the platform since Elon took over, and previous twitter exec turned a blind eye to the issue ignoring both internal and external sources while they focused on banning wrong think

>>Unless you have a press release somewhere about Twitter hiring thousands and thousands of additional moderators

I care about the amount of content, not the number of moderators.

Just look at the tweets from Ella Irwin [1], current head of trust and safety where she specifically before Elon "were 0 engineers and very few employees working on CSE and still no funding." Or the Account of @elizableu where she as chronicled the rapid improvements Elon has brought to this subject.

it is not a matter of my personal preference, I trust the people on the ground, not the media.

[1] https://twitter.com/ellagirwin/status/1601310614948745216

Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by danShumway on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:34AM (#34159187)
> No I trust experts in the field who by and large say CSAM is WAY WAY WAY down on the platform since Elon took over

Which experts and how is this being measured? Because I can't find sources that confirm that claim: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2022/11/18/elon...

Do you have ANY actual numbers to back that up, at all? Let alone numbers measured by independent experts and not just filtered through Twitter PR?

> I care about the amount of content, not the number of moderators.

I don't know how to get across to you that human moderation requires humans.

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> Just look at the tweets from Ella Irwin

That Elon's current head of safety is praising him isn't surprising -- one thing we've all learned from the way he's run Twitter is that you don't get to work for Elon at all unless you're pretty proactive about praising him.

But there have been zero independent measurements that confirm these claims, and actual experts in the field (read, not just a current employee and a couple fan/activist accounts) are concerned about the direction the platform is going and about the lack of investment in moderation teams.

But since those experts talking to journalists and not just posting to Twitter, maybe it doesn't matter what they think /s.