Analysis: Internal documents show how a small group of executives molded online discourse. Under Musk, that’s more of a problem than ever.
At stake, in the broadest sense, is the role of social media in political discourse, and whether Silicon Valley tech firms can be trusted to fairly and judiciously wield their power over who gets heard in the modern public square.
Musk has said his purchase of Twitter, which is particularly influential among politicians and the media, was motivated by frustration with its policies and a desire to make it a haven for unfettered speech. He portrayed his decision to grant a handpicked group of writers special access to Twitter’s internal communication systems as a necessary reckoning with Twitter’s overly censorial past.
online content moderation — and whether you were predisposed to see a political conspiracy at work in the documents. There are a handful of interesting new details that should trouble right and left alike. Taibbi found that Twitter’s top content moderators werewith multiple federal government agencies during the 2020 presidential campaign, whom they considered “partners” in flagging election misinformation for removal. That could raise First Amendment concerns, not to mention avenues for potential meddling in elections by the incumbent administration .
Weiss devoted a thread to a series of moderation tools that Twitter called “visibility filtering” and
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